Evolution of the Rab family of small GTP-binding proteins.
By José B. Pereira-Leal, Miguel C. Seabra. Journal of Molecular Biology, 2001
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Subfields: Cell Biology
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Citations in the corpus
- Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a Model Eukaryote (2006, neutral): “Proposed Rab families [157] are shown in colored blocks.”
- Rab27a and Rab27b control different steps of the exosome secretion pathway (2010, background): “, and Rab2, although generally described as allowing trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, is phylogenetically closer to Rab4, Rab11 and Rab14 (ref”
- Rab‐αGDI activity is regulated by a Hsp90 chaperone complex (2002, background): “Rab3A is a small G protein belonging to the ubiquitous Rab GTPase family now recognized to contain >60 members that facilitate the targeting/fusion of vesicle carriers between all compartments of the exocytic and endocytic pathways (Pereira-Leal and Seabra, 2001; Zerial and McBride, 2001).”
- Role of Rab GTPases in Membrane Traffic and Cell Physiology (2011, background): “Rabs constitute the largest family of small Ras-like GTPases with 11 identified in yeast and more than 60 members in humans that can be classified in several phylogenetic and functional groups (316, 367).”
- The Ras superfamily at a glance (2005, background): “First described as Ras-like proteins in brain (Rab), Rab proteins comprise the largest branch of the superfamily, with 61 members (Pereira-Leal and Seabra, 2001).”
- Rab GTPases as coordinators of vesicle traffic (2009, background): “In humans, there are more than 60 members of the Rab family that are localized to distinct intracellular membrane”
- Analysis of the Small GTPase Gene Superfamily of Arabidopsis1 (2003, methodology): “…the nomenclature of the Rab GTPase family in Arabidopsis, we have followed the naming and classification scheme described in recent papers (Pereira-Leal and Seabra, 2000, 2001), and have named them according to their presence in one of the eight subfamilies that arose from our analysis…”