The Rho guanine-nucleotide exchange factor P-Rex2 exhibits structural and regulatory features distinct from the related RhoGEF P-Rex1

Anderson L Marde R, Muma G, Nayak V, Phan C, Li S, Cash J, Journal of Biological Chemistry 302(7):113229 (2026) DOI

SASDZV5 – Human Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger protein 2 DH/PH domain tandem (P-Rex2 DH/PH)

Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem
MWexperimental 42 kDa
MWexpected 44 kDa
VPorod 52 nm3
log I(s) 9.67×100 9.67×10-1 9.67×10-2 9.67×10-3
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem Guinier plot ln 9.68×100 Rg: 2.6 nm 0 (2.6 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem pair distance distribution function Rg: 2.7 nm 0 Dmax: 8.4 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem BILBOMD model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of Human Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger protein 2 DH/PH domain tandem (P-Rex2 DH/PH) in 20 mM HEPES, 200 mM NaCl, 2 mM DTT, 1% glycerol, pH 7 were collected on the 12.3.1 (SIBYLS) beam line at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) storage ring (Berkeley, CA, USA) using a Pilatus3 X 2M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2.1 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.1127 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A sample at 2 mg/ml was injected at a 0.65 ml/min flow rate onto a Shodex KW-800 series column . 750 successive 2 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments were performed at the SIBYLS beamline 12.3.1 at the Advanced Light Source. This beamline has additional inline instrumentation and detectors coupled to a size exclusion column. Purified P-Rex2 DH/PH was concentrated to 2 mg/ml and then buffer exchanged into 20mM HEPES (pH 7), 200mM NaCl, 2mM DTT, and 1% glycerol SEC running buffer. The X-ray wavelength was set to 1.127 Å and the sample-to-detector distance to 2,100 mm, which gives scattering vectors (q) ranging from 0.01 Å-1 to 0.4 Å-1. The scattering vector is q = 4πsinθ/λ, where 2θ is the scattering angle. The SAXS flow cell was coupled to an Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC system using a Shodex PROTEIN KW-802.5 SEC column equilibrated with the running buffer with a flow rate of 0.65 ml/min. For SAXS measurements, 2 sec X-ray exposures were collected continuously during a 25 min elution. All frames for analyses had one SAXS frame corresponding to the running buffer before the detection of a peak subtracted from each.

Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH tandem (P-Rex2 DH/PH tandem)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Homo sapiens
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   44.4 kDa
 
UniProt   Q70Z35 (1-377)
Sequence   FASTA