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TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
卷 41, 期 12, 页码 1050-1060出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.08.012
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- NIH [GM078024, GM107368]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [GBMF2939]
The GTPase superfamily of proteins provides molecular switches to regulate numerous cellular processes. The 'GTPase switch' paradigm, in which external regulatory factors control the switch of a GTPase between 'on' and 'off' states, has been used to interpret the regulatory mechanism of many GTPases. However, recent work unveiled a class of nucleotide hydrolases that do not adhere to this classical paradigm. Instead, they use nucleotide-dependent dimerization cycles to regulate key cellular processes. In this review article, recent studies of dimeric GTPases and ATPases involved in intracellular protein targeting are summarized. It is suggested that these proteins can use the conformational plasticity at their dimer interface to generate multiple points of regulation, thereby providing the driving force and spatiotemporal coordination of complex cellular pathways.
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