title: Identification of a ras gene in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum.
abstract: A ras homologue was identified in the cDNA library from the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The cDNA codes for a protein of 189 amino acids, showing high homology to ras genes from other organisms, especially to these from Dictyostelium discoideum. Amino acid sequence at the C-terminus of the putative protein suggests that unlike most other ras proteins, it is not palmitoylated and bears a geranylgeranyl rather than farnesyl chain.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Warsaw University, Poland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kozlowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fronk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Toczko
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016839:Physarum polycephalum / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D018631:ras Proteins
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; C489016:ras protein, Dictyostelium; D018631:ras Proteins