Table 1

Cdc42 and Rac effectors

Effectors

Biological functions


Actin-associated proteins

Formins

Actin polymerization; cell polarity; cytokinesis

IQGAP1

Actin organization; regulation of cell-cell contacts

WASP

Actin polymerization

WAVE

Actin polymerization

p140Sra-1

Actin organization

Adaptor proteins

POSH

Jnk/NFκB activation

Par6

Cell polarity

Lipid kinases

DGK

Phosphatidic acid levels; maybe also actin regulation

PI3K

PIP3 levels; actin organization

PI5K

PIP2 levels; actin organization

Miscellaneous proteins

Borg

Actin organization

CIP4

Actin organization

NADPH oxidase

ROS production; apoptosis

POR1

Actin organization

SPEC

Actin organization

Phospholipases

PLC-β

DAG/IP3 levels

PLD

Phosphatidic acid levels; cytoskeletal reorganization

Serine/threonine kinases

MEKK

Jnk activation

MLK

Jnk activation

MRCK

Actin organization

Pak

Actin organization; MAPK/Jnk activation; apoptosis

p70S6K

Transcription; cell-cycle progression; RNA processing

Tyrosine kinases

Ack

Actin organization


Abbreviations: Ack, activated cdc42-associated tyrosine kinase; Borg, binder of Rho GTPases; CIP4, Cdc42-interacting protein; DAG, diacylglycerol; DGK, diacylglycerol kinase; IP3, inositol trisphosphate; MEKK, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase; MLK, mixed-lineage kinase; MRCK, myotonic dystrophy kinase-related Cdc42-binding kinase; NADPH, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; Pak, p21-activated kinase; Par, partitioning defective; PIP2, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate; PIP3, phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; PI5K, phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate-5 kinase; PLC, phospholipase C; PLD, phospholipase D; POR1, partner of Rac; POSH, plenty of SH3 domains; p70S6K, 70 kDa ribosomal S6 kinase; p140Sra-1, specifically Rac1-associated protein; SPEC, small protein effector of Cdc42; WASP, Wiskott Aldrich syndrome protein; WAVE, WASP-like verproline-homologous protein.

Cotteret and Chernoff Genome Biology 2002 3:reviews0002.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-2-reviews0002