title: Switching to Rac and Rho.
abstract: Could the recent elucidation of the structure of the Rap-Raf complex have been the first glimpse of a universal arrangement between GTPase switches and kinase cascades, as a number of recent reports show that Ras is not unique in its ability to start a signalling 'chain reaction'?
authors: Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie, Abteilung Strukturelle Biologie, Dortmund, Germany.
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authors: Wittinghofer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D020690:GTPase-Activating Proteins; D006801:Humans; D020930:MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases; D020929:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases; D005810:Multigene Family; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology*; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000502:physiology*; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D019908:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf; D016283:Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D020668:rap GTP-Binding Proteins
chemical_list: D020690:GTPase-Activating Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; C085379:rho GTPase-activating protein; D011494:Protein Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D019908:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases; D020930:MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases; D020929:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins; C501009:HRAS protein, human; D016283:Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras); D020668:rap GTP-Binding Proteins