ArticleCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2019
The evolutionary landscape of the Rab family in chordates.
Article in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fine-tuning neuron number:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Neddylation-dependent RAB40-Cullin5 E3 ligase complex controls ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation of DNAJC13.BBA advances · 2026Article
- RAB40C regulates SNX9 stabilityCentral-European journal of immunology · 2026Article
- The interrelated roles of RAB family proteins in the advancement of neoplastic growth.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- Aurora kinase A-mediated phosphorylation triggers structural alteration of Rab1A to enhance ER complexity during mitosis.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2024Article
- Gene expression and cellular changes in injured myocardium ofFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Gene expression in notochord and nuclei pulposi: a study of gene families across the chordate phylum.BMC ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- A Rab-bit hole: Rab40 GTPases as new regulators of the actin cytoskeleton and cell migration.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
- Ubiquitylation by Rab40b/Cul5 regulates Rap2 localization and activity during cell migration.The Journal of cell biology · 2022Article
- Origin and Evolution of the Multifaceted Adherens Junction Component Plekha7.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Tunicates Illuminate the Enigmatic Evolution of Chordate Metallothioneins by Gene Gains and Losses, Independent Modular Expansions, and Functional Convergences.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Methods to Study the Unique SOCS Box Domain of the Rab40 Small GTPase Subfamily.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021Article
- Article
- Article
- TheFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Intracellular traffic amongst organelles represents a key feature for eukaryotes and is orchestrated principally by members of Rab family, the largest within Ras superfamily. Given that variations in Rab repertoire have been fundamental in animal diversification, we provided the most exhaustive survey regarding the Rab toolkit of chordates. Our findings reveal the existence of 42 metazoan conserved subfamilies exhibiting a univocal intron/exon structure preserved from cnidarians to vertebrates. Since the current view does not capture the Rab complexity, we propose a new Rab family classification in three distinct monophyletic clades. The Rab complement of chordates shows a dramatic diversification due to genome duplications and independent gene duplications and losses with sharp differences amongst cephalochordates, tunicates and gnathostome vertebrates. Strikingly, the analysis of the domain architecture of this family highlighted the existence of chimeric calcium-binding Rabs, which are animal novelties characterized by a complex evolutionary history in gnathostomes and whose role in cellular metabolism is obscure. This work provides novel insights in the knowledge of Rab family: our hypothesis is that chordates represent a hotspot of Rab variability, with many events of gene gains and losses impacting intracellular traffic capabilities. Our results help to elucidate the role of Rab members in the transport amongst endomembranes and shed light on intracellular traffic routes in vertebrates. Then, since the predominant role of Rabs in the molecular communication between different cellular districts, this study paves to way to comprehend inherited or acquired human disorders provoked by dysfunctions in Rab genes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.