The conversion of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) to guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) by guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (GNBPs) is a fundamental enzyme reaction in living cells that acts as an important timer in a variety of biological processes...
Keywords: fluorescence reporter, GTPase, GTPase-activating protein, GTP hydrolysis, guanine nucleotide-binding protein, rhodamine, Spectroscopy
11/2005 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterAsef is a member of the Dbl-family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) with a proposed specificity for the small GTPase Rac1...
Keywords: APC, ASEF, Cdc42, exchange factor, GEF, GTPase, Rac, Rho
01/2007 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterThe Rho family of small GTPases plays a central role in intracellular signal transduction, particularly in reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton...
Keywords: GTPase, p115-RhoGEF, p190-RhoGAP, PDZ-RhoGEF, Rac, Rho, Tiam1
03/2006 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterDown-regulation of Ras signalling is mediated by specific GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs), which stimulate the very slow GTPase reaction of Ras by 105-fold...
Keywords: aluminium fluoride, beryllium fluoride, GTPase, GTPase-activating protein, neurofibromin, oncogene, Ras, transition state
09/2008 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de Gruyter