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. 1998 Sep 11;273(37):24052-6.
doi: 10.1074/jbc.273.37.24052.

Ras isoforms vary in their ability to activate Raf-1 and phosphoinositide 3-kinase

J Yan  1 , S Roy, A Apolloni, A Lane, J F Hancock
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Ras isoforms vary in their ability to activate Raf-1 and phosphoinositide 3-kinase

J Yan et al. J Biol Chem. .
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Abstract

Ha-, N-, and Ki-Ras are ubiquitously expressed in mammalian cells and can all interact with the same set of effector proteins. We show here, however, that in vivo there are marked quantitative differences in the ability of Ki- and Ha-Ras to activate Raf-1 and phosphoinositide 3-kinase. Thus, Ki-Ras both recruits Raf-1 to the plasma membrane more efficiently than Ha-Ras and is a more potent activator of membrane-recruited Raf-1 than Ha-Ras. In contrast, Ha-Ras is a more potent activator of phosphoinositide 3-kinase than Ki-Ras. Interestingly, the ability of Ha-Ras to recruit Raf-1 to the plasma membrane is significantly increased when the Ha-Ras hypervariable region is shortened so that the spacing of the Ha-Ras GTPase domains from the inner surface of the plasma membrane mimicks that of Ki-Ras. Importantly, these data show for the first time that the activation of different Ras isoforms can have distinct biochemical consequences for the cell. The mutation of specific Ras isoforms in different human tumors can, therefore, also be rationalized.

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