Rho GTPases and their effector proteins

AL Bishop, A Hall - Biochemical Journal, 2000 - portlandpress.com
Rho GTPases are molecular switches that regulate many essential cellular processes,
including actin dynamics, gene transcription, cell-cycle progression and cell adhesion …

Cdc42: an essential Rho-type GTPase controlling eukaryotic cell polarity

DI Johnson - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cdc42p is an essential GTPase that belongs to the Rho/Rac subfamily of Ras-like GTPases.
These proteins act as molecular switches by responding to exogenous and/or endogenous …

[HTML][HTML] IQGAPs in cancer: a family of scaffold proteins underlying tumorigenesis

CD White, MD Brown, DB Sacks - FEBS letters, 2009 - Elsevier
The IQGAP family comprises three proteins in humans. The best characterized is IQGAP1,
which participates in protein–protein interactions and integrates diverse signaling pathways …

ATG9A protects the plasma membrane from programmed and incidental permeabilization

A Claude-Taupin, J Jia, Z Bhujabal, M Garfa-Traoré… - Nature Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
The integral membrane protein ATG9A plays a key role in autophagy. It displays a broad
intracellular distribution and is present in numerous compartments, including the plasma …

IQGAP1: a key regulator of adhesion and migration

J Noritake, T Watanabe, K Sato, S Wang… - Journal of cell …, 2005 - journals.biologists.com
The dynamic rearrangement of cell-cell adhesion is one of the major physiological events in
tissue development and tumor metastasis. Polarized cell migration, another key event, is a …

IQGAP1 and its binding proteins control diverse biological functions

CD White, HH Erdemir, DB Sacks - Cellular signalling, 2012 - Elsevier
IQGAP proteins have been identified in a wide spectrum of organisms, ranging from yeast to
humans. The most extensively studied family member is the ubiquitously expressed scaffold …

GAPs galore! A survey of putative Ras superfamily GTPase activating proteins in man and Drosophila

A Bernards - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2003 - Elsevier
Typical members of the Ras superfamily of small monomeric GTP-binding proteins function
as regulators of diverse processes by cycling between biologically active GTP-and inactive …

IQGAP proteins are integral components of cytoskeletal regulation

MW Briggs, DB Sacks - EMBO reports, 2003 - embopress.org
IQGAP1 is a scaffolding protein that binds to a diverse array of signalling and structural
molecules. By interacting with its target proteins, human IQGAP1 participates in multiple …

IQGAP1 in cellular signaling: bridging the GAP

MD Brown, DB Sacks - Trends in cell biology, 2006 - cell.com
IQGAP1 was identified in 1994 as a widely expressed IQ domain-containing protein with a
region containing sequence similarity to the Ras GTPase-activating proteins. IQGAP1 has …

IQGAPs choreograph cellular signaling from the membrane to the nucleus

JM Smith, AC Hedman, DB Sacks - Trends in cell biology, 2015 - cell.com
Since its discovery in 1994, recognized cellular functions for the scaffold protein IQGAP1
have expanded immensely. Over 100 unique IQGAP1-interacting proteins have been …