Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Tyrosyl phosphorylation of KRAS stalls GTPase cycle via alteration of switch I and II conformation

  • Yoshihito Kano,
  • Teklab Gebregiworgis,
  • Christopher B. Marshall,
  • Nikolina Radulovich,
  • Betty P. K. Poon,
  • Jonathan St-Germain,
  • Jonathan D. Cook,
  • Ivette Valencia-Sama,
  • Benjamin M. M. Grant,
  • Silvia Gabriela Herrera,
  • Jinmin Miao,
  • Brian Raught,
  • Meredith S. Irwin,
  • Jeffrey E. Lee,
  • Jen Jen Yeh,
  • Zhong-Yin Zhang,
  • Ming-Sound Tsao,
  • Mitsuhiko Ikura,
  • Michael Ohh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08115-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Deregulation of the RAS GTPase cycle due to mutations in RAS genes is commonly associated with cancer development. Here authors use NMR and mass spectrometry to shows that KRAS phosphorylation via Src alters the conformation of switch I and II regions and thereby impacts the GTPase cycle.