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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2018

Ras and the Plasma Membrane: A Complicated Relationship.

Yong Zhou, Priyanka Prakash, Alemayehu A Gorfe, John F Hancock

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Structural Dynamics of Rho GTPases.Journal of molecular biology · 2025
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  17. Selection of potential targets for stratifying congenital pulmonary airway malformation patients with molecular imaging: is MUC1 the one?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023
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  18. Revealing KRas4b topology on the membrane surface.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2023
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  19. RAS GTPases and Interleaflet Coupling in the Plasma Membrane.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yong ZhouDepartment of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030.
Priyanka PrakashDepartment of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030.
Alemayehu A GorfeDepartment of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030.
John F HancockDepartment of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030.

Funding

Tissue Analysis & Molecular Imaging CoreP30DK056338 · NIDDK · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Geoffrey A Preidis · 2001 to 2026
$28.3M
Nanoclusters of Lipid-anchored Proteins in Membranes: How and where they appearR01GM100078 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI GORFE, ALEMAYEHU A. · 2012 to 2016
$1.4M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK056338NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The primary site of Ras signal transduction is the plasma membrane (PM). On the PM, the ubiquitously expressed Ras isoforms, H-, N-, and K-Ras, spatially segregate to nonoverlapping nanometer-sized domains, called nanoclusters, with further lateral segregation into nonoverlapping guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-bound and guanosine diphosphate (GDP)-bound nanoclusters. Effector binding and activation is restricted to GTP nanoclusters, rendering the underlying assembly mechanism essential to Ras signaling. Ras nanoclusters have distinct lipid compositions as a result of lipid-sorting specificity encoded in each Ras carboxy-terminal membrane anchor. The role of the G-domain in regulating anchor-membrane interactions is becoming clearer. Ras G-domains undergo significant conformational orientation changes on guanine nucleotide switch, leading to differential direct contacts between the G-domain and reorganization of the membrane anchor. Ras G-domains also contain weak dimer interfaces, resulting in homodimerization, which is an obligate step of nanoclustering. Modulating the formation of Ras dimers, the lipid composition of the PM or lateral dynamics of key PM phospholipids represent novel mechanisms whereby the extent of Ras nanoclustering can be regulated to tune the gain in Ras signaling circuits.

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Cell MembraneGenes, rasSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID29229665
PMCPMC6169983

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