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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2026

Recent breakthroughs in understanding the allosteric features of Ras GTPases and their effector and regulatory protein interactions, enabling drug design.

Nisha Bhattarai, Matthias Buck

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nisha BhattaraiDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Matthias BuckDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Case Cancer Comprehensive Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. Electronic address: matthias.buck@case.edu.

Funding

Computational Genomic Epidemiology of Cancer (CoGEC) Training ProgramT32CA094186 · NCI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI Thomas Louis LaFramboise, Rong Xu · 2017 to 2026
$2.6M
Role of EphA1/A2 domain-domain and -membrane interactions for receptor specificity and Blood Brain Barrier dysfunctionR01AG089561 · NIA · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI MATTHIAS BUCK · 2024 to 2026
$2.4M
Structure and function of plexin - co-receptor interactionsR01EY029169 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI BUCK, MATTHIAS · 2018 to 2021
$2.1M
Eph and Lyn hyper-phosphorylation and CRMP interactions in AD"R21AG084065 · NIA · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI BUCK, MATTHIAS · 2023 to 2024
$443k
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA094186NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029169NIA NIH HHS R01 AG089561NIA NIH HHS R21 AG084065
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ras guaosine triphosphate hydrolase (GTPase) are central to key cell signaling pathways and, when mutated, drive many cancers. Thought to be undruggable, dramatic progress has been made in the last decade in the design and screening of drugs, in large part thanks to an emerging detailed understanding of Ras conformational changes, excited/sparsely populated states, and allosteric interactions with ligands and protein-binding partners. This perspective reviews this recent progress and how it has been enabled by deep mutational scanning, solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic studies, as well as computational modeling and simulations. We critically discuss these developments over the last 5 years, also for the GTPase-activating proteins (GAP) NF1 and plexin, effector proteins, plexin and Raf, and make suggestions on the gaps in our understanding that still exist.

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Drug Designras ProteinsAllosteric RegulationAnimalsHumansModels, MolecularProtein Bindingras Proteins

Identifiers

PMID41401629
PMCPMC12890071

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