Structural highlights
Function
[RAB14_HUMAN] Involved in membrane trafficking between the Golgi complex and endosomes during early embryonic development. Regulates the Golgi to endosome transport of FGFR-containing vesicles during early development, a key process for developing basement membrane and epiblast and primitive endoderm lineages during early postimplantation development. May act by modulating the kinesin KIF16B-cargo association to endosomes (By similarity). Regulates, together with its guanine nucleotide exchange factor DENND6A, the specific endocytic transport of ADAM10, N-cadherin/CDH2 shedding and cell-cell adhesion.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Rab GTPases regulate all stages of membrane trafficking, including vesicle budding, cargo sorting, transport, tethering and fusion. In the inactive (GDP-bound) conformation, accessory factors facilitate the targeting of Rab GTPases to intracellular compartments. After nucleotide exchange to the active (GTP-bound) conformation, Rab GTPases interact with functionally diverse effectors including lipid kinases, motor proteins and tethering complexes. How effectors distinguish between homologous Rab GTPases represents an unresolved problem with respect to the specificity of vesicular trafficking. Using a structural proteomic approach, we have determined the specificity and structural basis underlying the interaction of the multivalent effector rabenosyn-5 with the Rab family. The results demonstrate that even the structurally similar effector domains in rabenosyn-5 can achieve highly selective recognition of distinct subsets of Rab GTPases exclusively through interactions with the switch and interswitch regions. The observed specificity is determined at a family-wide level by structural diversity in the active conformation, which governs the spatial disposition of critical conserved recognition determinants, and by a small number of both positive and negative sequence determinants that allow further discrimination between Rab GTPases with similar switch conformations.
Structural basis of family-wide Rab GTPase recognition by rabenosyn-5.,Eathiraj S, Pan X, Ritacco C, Lambright DG Nature. 2005 Jul 21;436(7049):415-9. PMID:16034420[2]
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References
- ↑ Linford A, Yoshimura S, Nunes Bastos R, Langemeyer L, Gerondopoulos A, Rigden DJ, Barr FA. Rab14 and its exchange factor FAM116 link endocytic recycling and adherens junction stability in migrating cells. Dev Cell. 2012 May 15;22(5):952-66. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.04.010. PMID:22595670 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2012.04.010
- ↑ Eathiraj S, Pan X, Ritacco C, Lambright DG. Structural basis of family-wide Rab GTPase recognition by rabenosyn-5. Nature. 2005 Jul 21;436(7049):415-9. PMID:16034420 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03798
