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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2005

Computational docking and solution x-ray scattering predict a membrane-interacting role for the histone domain of the Ras activator son of sevenless.

Holger Sondermann, Bhushan Nagar, Dafna Bar-Sagi, John Kuriyan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The Interdependent Activation of Son-of-Sevenless and Ras.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2019
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  13. Regulation of Son of sevenless by the membrane-actin linker protein ezrin.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  15. DOT2: Macromolecular docking with improved biophysical models.Journal of computational chemistry · 2013
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  20. Molecular mechanisms in signal transduction at the membrane.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Holger SondermannHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Bhushan Nagar
Dafna Bar-Sagi
John Kuriyan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USState University of New York · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Ras-specific nucleotide exchange factor son of sevenless (SOS) is a large, multidomain protein with complex regulation, including a Ras-dependent allosteric mechanism. The N-terminal segment of SOS, the histone domain, contains two histone folds, which is highly unusual for a cytoplasmic protein. Using a combination of computational docking, small-angle x-ray scattering, mutagenesis, and calorimetry, we show that the histone domain folds into the rest of SOS and docks onto a helical linker that connects the pleckstrin-homology (PH) and Dbl-homology (DH) domains of SOS to the catalytic domain. In this model, a positively charged surface region on the histone domain is positioned so as to provide a fourth potential anchorage site on the membrane for SOS in addition to the PH domain, the allosteric Ras molecule, and the C-terminal adapter-binding site. The histone domain in SOS interacts with the helical linker, using a region of the surface that in nucleosomes is involved in histone tetramerization. Adjacent surface elements on the histone domain that correspond to the DNA-binding surface of nucleosomes form the predicted interaction site with the membrane. The orientation and position of the histone domain in the SOS model implicates it as a potential mediator of membrane-dependent activation signals.

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Allosteric RegulationCalorimetryCell MembraneHistonesPoint MutationProtein BindingRecombinant ProteinsScattering, RadiationSon of Sevenless ProteinsX-RaysHistonesRecombinant ProteinsSon of Sevenless Proteins

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PMID16267129
PMCPMC1276615
OpenAlexW1988122006

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