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

SASDZU5 – Human Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 protein DH/PH domain and DEP1 module (P-Rex2 DH/PH-DEP1)

Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH-DEP1
MWexperimental 57 kDa
MWexpected 55 kDa
VPorod 77 nm3
log I(s) 1.32×101 1.32×100 1.32×10-1 1.32×10-2
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH-DEP1 small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH-DEP1 Guinier plot ln 1.33×101 Rg: 2.9 nm 0 (2.9 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH-DEP1 Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
Dmax: 10.5 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 DH/PH-DEP1 BILBOMD model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of Human Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 protein DH/PH domain and DEP1 module (P-Rex2 DH/PH-DEP1) 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-DEP1 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-DEP1 (P-Rex2 DH/PH-DEP1)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Homo sapiens
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   55.0 kDa
 
UniProt   Q70Z35 (1-467)
Sequence   FASTA