title: ras effector loop mutations that dissociate p120GAP and neurofibromin interactions.
abstract: ras proteins are positively regulated by nucleotide exchange factors and negatively regulated by GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs). Two GAPs have been found in mammalian cells, p120GAP and neurofibromin, the product of the type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1) gene. A library of substitutions in the effector loop region of ras in an Escherichia coli plasmid expression system was screened for c-Ha-ras species with altered GAP interactions. Several substitutions preferentially disrupted the interaction of ras with p120GAP as compared with the interaction with the recombinant GAP-related domain of neurofibromin (NF1-GRD). The most extreme example, Tyr32His, encoded a ras species that was unaffected by p120GAP but was stimulated normally by NF1-GRD. Tyr32His was weakly transforming in Rat2 cells. Tyr32His ras was primarily GDP-bound in quiescent Rat2 cells, although it rapidly associated with GTP after treatment of cells with epidermal growth factor. These results show that the NF1 product has less stringent requirements than p120GAP for ras effector domain structure and that negative regulation of ras can be achieved in rat fibroblasts by the product of NF1.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bottorff
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D020690:GTPase-Activating Proteins; D006150:Guanine Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D025542:Neurofibromin 1; D017354:Point Mutation; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D016283:Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D020703:ras GTPase-Activating Proteins
chemical_list: D020690:GTPase-Activating Proteins; D006150:Guanine Nucleotides; D025542:Neurofibromin 1; D011506:Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D020703:ras GTPase-Activating Proteins; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; C501009:HRAS protein, human; D016283:Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)