RHO GTPases: from new partners to complex immune syndromes

R El Masri, J Delon - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Ras homology (RHO) GTPases are signalling proteins that have crucial roles in triggering
multiple immune functions. Through their interactions with a broad range of effectors and …

Human autoinflammatory diseases mediated by NLRP3-, Pyrin-, NLRP1-, and NLRC4-inflammasome dysregulation updates on diagnosis, treatment, and the …

S Alehashemi, R Goldbach-Mansky - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has led to novel findings in inflammasome biology and genetics that
altered the diagnosis and management of patients with autoinflammatory syndromes caused …

mTORC2–NDRG1–CDC42 axis couples fasting to mitochondrial fission

N Martinez-Lopez, P Mattar, M Toledo, H Bains… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Fasting triggers diverse physiological adaptations including increases in circulating fatty
acids and mitochondrial respiration to facilitate organismal survival. The mechanisms driving …

Actin remodeling defects leading to autoinflammation and immune dysregulation

R Papa, F Penco, S Volpi, M Gattorno - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A growing number of monogenic immune-mediated diseases have been related to genes
involved in pathways of actin cytoskeleton remodeling. Increasing evidences associate …

Severe autoinflammation in 4 patients with C-terminal variants in cell division control protein 42 homolog (CDC42) successfully treated with IL-1β inhibition

Y Gernez, AA de Jesus, H Alsaleem… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2019 - jacionline.org
To the Editor: Autoinflammatory syndromes are caused by dysregulation of the innate
immune system, often affecting the inflammasome and other pathogen recognition pathways …

Gradients of Rac1 nanoclusters support spatial patterns of Rac1 signaling

A Remorino, S De Beco, F Cayrac, F Di Federico… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Rac1 is a small RhoGTPase switch that orchestrates actin branching in space and time and
protrusion/retraction cycles of the lamellipodia at the cell front during mesenchymal …

[HTML][HTML] The role of cell division control protein 42 in tumor and non-tumor diseases: a systematic review

J Fu, B Liu, H Zhang, F Fu, X Yang, L Fan… - Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rho-GTPases control a variety of cellular functions mainly by regulating microtubule and
actin dynamics, affecting the cytoskeleton, and are important regulators of the structural …

Single-molecule tracking of small GTPase Rac1 uncovers spatial regulation of membrane translocation and mechanism for polarized signaling

S Das, T Yin, Q Yang, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Polarized Rac1 signaling is a hallmark of many cellular functions, including cell adhesion,
motility, and cell division. The two steps of Rac1 activation are its translocation to the plasma …

A toxic palmitoylation of Cdc42 enhances NF-κB signaling and drives a severe autoinflammatory syndrome

B Bekhouche, A Tourville, Y Ravichandran… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2020 - jacionline.org
FIG 1. A, Pustular psoriasiform lesions and severe psoriasiform erythrodema. B, Pedigree. C,
Structure of Cdc42, highlighting the mutated R186 (red). D, Staining of the Golgi apparatus …

Identification of a novel prenyl and palmitoyl modification at the CaaX motif of Cdc42 that regulates RhoGDI binding

A Nishimura, ME Linder - Molecular and cellular biology, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Abstract Membrane localization of Rho GTPases is essential for their biological functions
and is dictated in part by a series of posttranslational modifications at a carboxyl-terminal …