RAB6A

Ras-related protein Rab-6A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB6A gene located in the eleventh chromosome. Its main function is the regulation of protein transport from the Golgi complex to the endoplasmic reticulum and the exocytosis along with the microtubules.

RAB6A
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 1YZQ, 2GIL, 3BBP, 3CWZ, 4DKX
Identifiers
Aliases	RAB6A, RAB6, member RAS oncogene family
External IDs	OMIM: 179513 MGI: 894313 HomoloGene: 55697 GeneCards: RAB6A
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 11 (human) Band 11q13.4 Start 73,675,638 bp End 73,761,137 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 7 (mouse) Band 7|7 E2 Start 100,256,617 bp End 100,290,475 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in Achilles tendon ganglionic eminence Brodmann area 10 frontal pole stromal cell of endometrium middle frontal gyrus rectum popliteal artery right coronary artery cerebellar hemisphere Top expressed in primary motor cortex prefrontal cortex cingulate gyrus lateral geniculate nucleus medial dorsal nucleus ventral tegmental area hippocampus proper lateral hypothalamus ventromedial nucleus dorsal tegmental nucleus More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function nucleotide binding protein domain specific binding GTP binding myosin V binding protein binding GTPase activity Cellular component Golgi apparatus membrane endosome to plasma membrane transport vesicle trans-Golgi network extracellular exosome cytoplasmic vesicle trans-Golgi network membrane cytosol endoplasmic reticulum membrane Golgi membrane plasma membrane secretory granule membrane Biological process antigen processing and presentation early endosome to Golgi transport peptidyl-cysteine methylation protein localization to Golgi apparatus protein transport minus-end-directed organelle transport along microtubule viral process vesicle-mediated transport retrograde vesicle-mediated transport, Golgi to endoplasmic reticulum neutrophil degranulation transport intracellular protein transport intra-Golgi vesicle-mediated transport Rab protein signal transduction retrograde transport, endosome to Golgi Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 5870 19346 Ensembl ENSG00000175582 ENSMUSG00000030704 UniProt P20340 P35279 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_198896 NM_001243718 NM_001243719 NM_002869 NM_001163663 NM_024287 RefSeq (protein) NP_001230647 NP_001230648 NP_002860 NP_942599 NP_001157135 NP_077249 Location (UCSC) Chr 11: 73.68 – 73.76 Mb Chr 7: 100.26 – 100.29 Mb PubMed search
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Interactions

RAB6A has been shown to interact with:

• BICD1,
• DCTN1
• ERC1, and
• KIF20A.

Further reading

• Rousseau-Merck MF, Zahraoui A, Touchot N, Tavitian A, Berger R (1991). "Chromosome assignment of four RAS-related RAB genes". Hum. Genet. 86 (4): 350–4. doi:10.1007/BF00201831. PMID 1999336. S2CID 30730416.
• Goud B, Zahraoui A, Tavitian A, Saraste J (1990). "Small GTP-binding protein associated with Golgi cisternae". Nature. 345 (6275): 553–6. Bibcode:1990Natur.345..553G. doi:10.1038/345553a0. PMID 2112230. S2CID 4341620.
• Zahraoui A, Touchot N, Chardin P, Tavitian A (1989). "The human Rab genes encode a family of GTP-binding proteins related to yeast YPT1 and SEC4 products involved in secretion". J. Biol. Chem. 264 (21): 12394–401. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)63872-4. PMID 2501306.
• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Beranger F, Cadwallader K, Porfiri E, Powers S, Evans T, de Gunzburg J, Hancock JF (1994). "Determination of structural requirements for the interaction of Rab6 with RabGDI and Rab geranylgeranyltransferase". J. Biol. Chem. 269 (18): 13637–43. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(17)36877-1. PMID 8175798.
• Cremers FP, Armstrong SA, Seabra MC, Brown MS, Goldstein JL (1994). "REP-2, a Rab escort protein encoded by the choroideremia-like gene". J. Biol. Chem. 269 (3): 2111–7. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(17)42142-9. PMID 8294464.
• Karniguian A, Zahraoui A, Tavitian A (1993). "Identification of small GTP-binding rab proteins in human platelets: thrombin-induced phosphorylation of rab3B, rab6, and rab8 proteins". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 (16): 7647–51. Bibcode:1993PNAS...90.7647K. doi:10.1073/pnas.90.16.7647. PMC 47199. PMID 8356066.
• Andersson B, Wentland MA, Ricafrente JY, Liu W, Gibbs RA (1996). "A "double adaptor" method for improved shotgun library construction". Anal. Biochem. 236 (1): 107–13. doi:10.1006/abio.1996.0138. PMID 8619474.
• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.
• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, Muzny DM, Ding Y, Liu W, Ricafrente JY, Wentland MA, Lennon G, Gibbs RA (1997). "Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing". Genome Res. 7 (4): 353–8. doi:10.1101/gr.7.4.353. PMC 139146. PMID 9110174.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, Suyama A, Sugano S (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
• Echard A, Jollivet F, Martinez O, Lacapère JJ, Rousselet A, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Goud B (1998). "Interaction of a Golgi-associated kinesin-like protein with Rab6". Science. 279 (5350): 580–5. Bibcode:1998Sci...279..580E. doi:10.1126/science.279.5350.580. PMID 9438855.
• Cuif MH, Possmayer F, Zander H, Bordes N, Jollivet F, Couedel-Courteille A, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Langsley G, Bornens M, Goud B (1999). "Characterization of GAPCenA, a GTPase activating protein for Rab6, part of which associates with the centrosome". EMBO J. 18 (7): 1772–82. doi:10.1093/emboj/18.7.1772. PMC 1171263. PMID 10202141.
• Barr FA (1999). "A novel Rab6-interacting domain defines a family of Golgi-targeted coiled-coil proteins". Curr. Biol. 9 (7): 381–4. Bibcode:1999CBio....9..381B. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80167-5. PMID 10209123.
• Bucci C, Chiariello M, Lattero D, Maiorano M, Bruni CB (1999). "Interaction cloning and characterization of the cDNA encoding the human prenylated rab acceptor (PRA1)". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 258 (3): 657–62. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1999.0651. PMID 10329441.
• Caillol N, Pasqualini E, Lloubes R, Lombardo D (2000). "Impairment of bile salt-dependent lipase secretion in human pancreatic tumoral SOJ-6 cells". J. Cell. Biochem. 79 (4): 628–47. doi:10.1002/1097-4644(20001215)79:4<628::AID-JCB120>3.0.CO;2-T. PMID 10996854. S2CID 11614620.
• Shan J, Mason JM, Yuan L, Barcia M, Porti D, Calabro A, Budman D, Vinciguerra V, Xu H (2001). "Rab6c, a new member of the rab gene family, is involved in drug resistance in MCF7/AdrR cells". Gene. 257 (1): 67–75. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00395-4. PMID 11054569.
• Echard A, Opdam FJ, de Leeuw HJ, Jollivet F, Savelkoul P, Hendriks W, Voorberg J, Goud B, Fransen JA (2001). "Alternative splicing of the human Rab6A gene generates two close but functionally different isoforms". Mol. Biol. Cell. 11 (11): 3819–33. doi:10.1091/mbc.11.11.3819. PMC 15039. PMID 11071909.
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