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Ypt/Rab proteins are membrane-associated small GTP-binding proteins which play a central role in the coordination, activation and regulation of vesicle-mediated transport in eukaryotic cells. We present the 1.5 A high-resolution crystal structure of Ypt51 in its active, GppNHp-bound conformation. Ypt51 is an important regulator involved in the endocytic membrane traffic of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The structure reveals small but significant structural differences compared with H-Ras p21. The effector loop and the catalytic loop are well defined and stabilized by extensive hydrophobic interactions. The switch I and switch II regions form a well-defined epitope for hypothetical effector protein binding. Sequence comparisons between the different isoforms Ypt51, Ypt52 and Ypt53 provide the first insights into determinants for specific effector binding and for fine-tuning of the intrinsic GTP-hydrolysis rate.

1EK0 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae Saccharomyces cerevisiae] with <scene name='pdbligand=MG:'>MG</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=NI:'>NI</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=GNP:'>GNP</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=GDP:'>GDP</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1EK0 OCA].  

[[Category: Scheidig, A J.]]

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