Transforming protein RhoA

RHOA
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesRHOA, ARH12, ARHA, RHO12, RHOH12, ras homolog family member A, EDFAOB
External IDsOMIM: 165390; MGI: 1096342; HomoloGene: 68986; GeneCards: RHOA; OMA:RHOA - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_016802
NM_001313961
NM_001313962

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001300890
NP_001300891
NP_058082

Location (UCSC)Chr 3: 49.36 – 49.41 MbChr 9: 108.18 – 108.22 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
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Transforming protein RhoA, also known as Ras homolog family member A (RhoA), is a small GTPase protein in the Rho family of GTPases that in humans is encoded by the RHOA gene.[5] While the effects of RhoA activity are not all well known, it is primarily associated with cytoskeleton regulation, mostly actin stress fibers formation and actomyosin contractility. It acts upon several effectors. Among them, ROCK1 (Rho-associated, coiled-coil containing protein kinase 1) and DIAPH1 (Diaphanous Homologue 1, a.k.a. hDia1, homologue to mDia1 in mouse, diaphanous in Drosophila) are the best described. RhoA, and the other Rho GTPases, are part of a larger family of related proteins known as the Ras superfamily, a family of proteins involved in the regulation and timing of cell division. RhoA is one of the oldest Rho GTPases, with homologues present in the genomes since 1.5 billion years. As a consequence, RhoA is somehow involved in many cellular processes which emerged throughout evolution. RhoA specifically is regarded as a prominent regulatory factor in other functions such as the regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics, transcription, cell cycle progression and cell transformation.

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000067560Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000007815Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ Kiss C, Li J, Szeles A, Gizatullin RZ, Kashuba VI, Lushnikova T, et al. (1997). "Assignment of the ARHA and GPX1 genes to human chromosome bands 3p21.3 by in situ hybridization and with somatic cell hybrids". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 79 (3–4): 228–30. doi:10.1159/000134729. PMID 9605859.