Ras protein

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guanine nucleotide binding protein

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• Isoprenoid addition to Ras protein is the critical modification for its membrane association and transforming activity.
• What is most noteworthy about this particular Ras protein is that, in its natural form, it resembles the other Ras proteins in their mutated form, says Ghosh, who also is an associate investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• The Ras protein is a guanine nucleotide binding protein, whose GDP- and GTP- bound structure has been determined by X-ray crystallography.
• The ras protein is a messenger, Mattos explains.
• The Ras protein is encoded by a 189 codon open reading frame, and is synthesized as such in E.

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