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| - | The protein Ran is a small GTP-binding protein that binds to two types of | + | The protein Ran is a small GTP-binding protein that binds to two types of effector inside the cell: Ran-binding proteins, which have a role in terminating export processes from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, and importin-beta-like molecules that bind cargo proteins during nuclear transport. The Ran-binding domain is a conserved sequence motif found in several proteins that participate in these transport processes. The Ran-binding protein RanBP2 contains four of these domains and constitutes a large part of the cytoplasmic fibrils that extend from the nuclear-pore complex. The structure of Ran bound to a non-hydrolysable GTP analogue (Ran x GppNHp) in complex with the first Ran-binding domain (RanBD1) of human RanBP2 reveals not only that RanBD1 has a pleckstrin-homology domain fold, but also that the switch-I region of Ran x GppNHp resembles the canonical Ras GppNHp structure and that the carboxy terminus of Ran is wrapped around RanBD1, contacting a basic patch on RanBD1 through its acidic end. This molecular 'embrace' enables RanBDs to sequester the Ran carboxy terminus, triggering the dissociation of Ran x GTP from importin-beta-related transport factors and facilitating GTP hydrolysis by the GTPase-activating protein ranGAP. Such a mechanism represents a new type of switch mechanism and regulatory protein-protein interaction for a Ras-related protein. |
==Disease== | ==Disease== | ||
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[[Category: Nishimoto, T.]] | [[Category: Nishimoto, T.]] | ||
[[Category: Nowak, C.]] | [[Category: Nowak, C.]] | ||
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[[Category: Wittinghofer, A.]] | [[Category: Wittinghofer, A.]] | ||
[[Category: GNP]] | [[Category: GNP]] | ||
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[[Category: small gtpase]] | [[Category: small gtpase]] | ||
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STRUCTURE OF THE RAN-GPPNHP-RANBD1 COMPLEX
Contents |
Overview
The protein Ran is a small GTP-binding protein that binds to two types of effector inside the cell: Ran-binding proteins, which have a role in terminating export processes from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, and importin-beta-like molecules that bind cargo proteins during nuclear transport. The Ran-binding domain is a conserved sequence motif found in several proteins that participate in these transport processes. The Ran-binding protein RanBP2 contains four of these domains and constitutes a large part of the cytoplasmic fibrils that extend from the nuclear-pore complex. The structure of Ran bound to a non-hydrolysable GTP analogue (Ran x GppNHp) in complex with the first Ran-binding domain (RanBD1) of human RanBP2 reveals not only that RanBD1 has a pleckstrin-homology domain fold, but also that the switch-I region of Ran x GppNHp resembles the canonical Ras GppNHp structure and that the carboxy terminus of Ran is wrapped around RanBD1, contacting a basic patch on RanBD1 through its acidic end. This molecular 'embrace' enables RanBDs to sequester the Ran carboxy terminus, triggering the dissociation of Ran x GTP from importin-beta-related transport factors and facilitating GTP hydrolysis by the GTPase-activating protein ranGAP. Such a mechanism represents a new type of switch mechanism and regulatory protein-protein interaction for a Ras-related protein.
Disease
Known diseases associated with this structure: Osteolysis, familial expansile OMIM:[603499], Paget disease of bone OMIM:[603499]
About this Structure
1RRP is a Protein complex structure of sequences from Homo sapiens with and as ligands. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Structure of a Ran-binding domain complexed with Ran bound to a GTP analogue: implications for nuclear transport., Vetter IR, Nowak C, Nishimoto T, Kuhlmann J, Wittinghofer A, Nature. 1999 Mar 4;398(6722):39-46. PMID:10078529
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