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PRONE domain profile


Description

In plants, the small GTP-binding proteins called Rops work as signalling switches that control growth, development and plant responses to various environmental stimuli. Rop proteins (Rho of plants, Rac-like and atRac in Arabidopsis thaliana) belong to the Rho family of Ras-related GTP-binding proteins that turn on signalling pathways by switching from a GDP-bound inactive to a GTP-bound active conformation. Activation depends on guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that catalyze the otherwise slow GDP dissociation for subsequent GTP binding. The plant-specific RopGEFs represent a unique family of exchange factors that display no homology to any known RhoGEFs from animals and fungi. They comprise a highly conserved catalytic domain termed PRONE (plant-specific Rop nucleotide exchanger) with exclusive substrate specificity for members of the Rop family. The PRONE domain has been shown to be necessary and sufficient to promote nucleotide release from Rop [1,2,3].

The PRONE domain can be divided into three highly conserved subdomains separated by two short stretches of variable amino acid residues [1,2]. It is ~370 residues in length and displays an almost all α-helical structure except for a β-turn that protrudes from the main body of the molecule (see <PDB:2NTX>). The overall structure of the PRONE domain can be divided into two subdomains, the first one including helices α1-5 and α13, the second α6-12 [4].

The profile we developed covers the entire PRONE domain.

Last update:

October 2007 / First entry.

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Technical section

PROSITE method (with tools and information) covered by this documentation:

PRONE, PS51334; PRONE domain profile  (MATRIX)


References

1AuthorsBerken A. Thomas C. Wittinghofer A.
TitleA new family of RhoGEFs activates the Rop molecular switch in plants.
SourceNature 436:1176-1180(2005).
PubMed ID15980860
DOI10.1038/nature03883

2AuthorsGu Y. Li S. Lord E.M. Yang Z.
TitleMembers of a novel class of Arabidopsis Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors control Rho GTPase-dependent polar growth.
SourcePlant Cell 18:366-381(2006).
PubMed ID16415208
DOI10.1105/tpc.105.036434

3AuthorsThomas C. Weyand M. Wittinghofer A. Berken A.
TitlePurification and crystallization of the catalytic PRONE domain of RopGEF8 and its complex with Rop4 from Arabidopsis thaliana.
SourceActa Crystallogr. F 62:607-610(2006).
PubMed ID16754995
DOI10.1107/S1744309106018689

4AuthorsThomas C. Fricke I. Scrima A. Berken A. Wittinghofer A.
TitleStructural evidence for a common intermediate in small G protein-GEF reactions.
SourceMol. Cell 25:141-149(2007).
PubMed ID17218277
DOI10.1016/j.molcel.2006.11.023



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