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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 15, 8776-8782, April 10, 1998

Interaction of Rac1 with GTPase-activating Proteins and Putative Effectors
A COMPARISON WITH Cdc42 AND RhoA

Baolin Zhang, Jonathan Chernoff^§, and Yi Zheng

From the  Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163 and the ^§ Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111

The intrinsic GTPase activity of the Rho family GTP-binding protein Rac1 is drastically stimulated upon interaction with its GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) and is significantly inhibited when coupled to certain effector targets such as the p21-activated kinases (PAKs) and IQGAPs. Here we have characterized the interaction of Rac1 with a panel of mammalian GAPs and putative effectors by measuring the kinetic and binding parameters involved and made comparisons with similar interactions for Cdc42 and RhoA. In contrast with Cdc42 (for which the GAP domain of p50RhoGAP is 50-fold more efficient than those of p190, Bcr, and 3BP-1) and with RhoA (toward which only p50RhoGAP and p190 displayed high efficiencies), the catalytic efficiencies (K_cat/K_m) of the GAP domains of p50RhoGAP, p190, Bcr, and 3BP-1 on Rac1 are found to be comparable in a range between 0.9 and 2.6 min¹ µM¹. However, similar to the cases of Cdc42 and RhoA, the K_m values of the GAP domains on Rac1 compare well to the binding affinity to the guanylyl imidodiphosphate-bound Rac1, which ranges from 10.5 to 40.5 µM, suggesting a rapid equilibrium reaction mechanism. The dissociation constants of the p21-binding domains of PAK1, PAK2, and the RasGAP-related domain of IQGAP1, which all cause significant reduction of the intrinsic rate of GTP hydrolysis upon binding to Rac1-GTP, are found to be 0.71, 0.26, and 2.13 µM for Rac1-GTP, compared with that determined for Cdc42-GTP at 2.9, 20.5, and 0.39 µM, respectively, under similar conditions. These results suggest that p50RhoGAP, p190, Bcr, and 3BP-1 are all capable of acting as a negative regulator for Rac1-mediated signaling, and that, although PAK1 and IQGAP1 can couple tightly with both Rac1 and Cdc42, PAK2 is likely to be a specific effector for Rac1 instead of Cdc42.

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Copyright © 1998 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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