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ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2016

One-way membrane trafficking of SOS in receptor-triggered Ras activation.

Sune M Christensen, Hsiung-Lin Tu, Jesse E Jun, Steven Alvarez, Meredith G Triplet, Jeffrey S Iwig, Kamlesh K Yadav, Dafna Bar-Sagi, Jeroen P Roose, Jay T Groves

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Article in Nature structural & molecular biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mimicking Cellular Membranes With Micropatterned Lipid Bilayers.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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  16. A two-component protein condensate of the EGFR cytoplasmic tail and Grb2 regulates Ras activation by SOS at the membrane.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  18. Stochasticity and positive feedback enable enzyme kinetics at the membrane to sense reaction size.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  19. Relating cellular signaling timescales to single-molecule kinetics: A first-passage time analysis of Ras activation by SOS.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sune M ChristensenDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Hsiung-Lin TuDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jesse E JunDepartment of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Steven AlvarezDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Meredith G TripletDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jeffrey S IwigHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Kamlesh K YadavDepartment of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Dafna Bar-SagiDepartment of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Jeroen P RooseDepartment of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jay T GrovesDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
University of California, Berkeley · USNew York University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Understand the metabolic fitness of naïve T cellsP01AI091580 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ARTHUR WEISS · 2011 to 2026
$31.1M
Molecular understanding of leukemic bone marrow cytokine-Ras signals and metabolic dependenceR01CA187318 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JEROEN ROOSE · 2015 to 2026
$3.6M
Positive and Negative Regulation of RTK-RAS SignalingR01GM078266 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI BAR-SAGI, DAFNA · 2007 to 2015
$3.2M
Loss of Intrinsic Control in Autoimmune T Helper Cells with Signaling VariantsR01AI104789 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ROOSE, JEROEN · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA187318NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI091580NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI104789NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078266
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SOS is a key activator of the small GTPase Ras. In cells, SOS-Ras signaling is thought to be initiated predominantly by membrane recruitment of SOS via the adaptor Grb2 and balanced by rapidly reversible Grb2-SOS binding kinetics. However, SOS has multiple protein and lipid interactions that provide linkage to the membrane. In reconstituted-membrane experiments, these Grb2-independent interactions were sufficient to retain human SOS on the membrane for many minutes, during which a single SOS molecule could processively activate thousands of Ras molecules. These observations raised questions concerning how receptors maintain control of SOS in cells and how membrane-recruited SOS is ultimately released. We addressed these questions in quantitative assays of reconstituted SOS-deficient chicken B-cell signaling systems combined with single-molecule measurements in supported membranes. These studies revealed an essentially one-way trafficking process in which membrane-recruited SOS remains trapped on the membrane and continuously activates Ras until being actively removed via endocytosis.

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Allosteric RegulationAnimalsCell MembraneChickensEndocytosisEnzyme ActivationHumansJurkat CellsKineticsLipid BilayersMAP Kinase Signaling SystemProtein BindingProtein DomainsProtein TransportProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcrras ProteinsBCR protein, humanLipid BilayersProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcrras ProteinsSOS1 Protein

Identifiers

PMID27501536
PMCPMC5016256
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