RAB3A

This article is about the human gene. For the hand gesture, see Rabia sign.

Ras-related protein Rab-3A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB3A gene. It is involved in calcium-triggered exocytosis in neurons.

RAB3A
Identifiers
Aliases	RAB3A, member RAS oncogene family
External IDs	OMIM: 179490; MGI: 97843; HomoloGene: 20629; GeneCards: RAB3A; OMA:RAB3A - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 19 (human) Band 19p13.11 Start 18,196,784 bp End 18,204,042 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 8 (mouse) Band 8 B3.3|8 34.15 cM Start 71,207,328 bp End 71,211,323 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in right frontal lobe right hemisphere of cerebellum Brodmann area 9 prefrontal cortex nucleus accumbens amygdala putamen hypothalamus cingulate gyrus spinal ganglia Top expressed in primary visual cortex superior frontal gyrus dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell cerebellar cortex central gray substance of midbrain subiculum dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus prefrontal cortex habenula primary motor cortex More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function nucleotide binding ATPase binding GTP binding myosin V binding protein C-terminus binding protein binding ATPase activator activity GTP-dependent protein binding GTPase activity GDP-dissociation inhibitor binding Cellular component extracellular vesicle endosome clathrin-sculpted monoamine transport vesicle membrane membrane synaptic vesicle plasma membrane clathrin-sculpted gamma-aminobutyric acid transport vesicle membrane clathrin-sculpted acetylcholine transport vesicle membrane axon terminal bouton acrosomal vesicle intracellular organelle clathrin-sculpted glutamate transport vesicle membrane cytosol secretory granule membrane anchored component of synaptic vesicle membrane vesicle protein-containing complex presynaptic active zone secretory granule perinuclear region of cytoplasm Biological process respiratory system process positive regulation of ATP-dependent activity axonogenesis lung development synaptic vesicle exocytosis regulation of short-term neuronal synaptic plasticity evoked neurotransmitter secretion mitochondrion organization response to electrical stimulus post-embryonic development constitutive secretory pathway maintenance of presynaptic active zone structure glutamate secretion regulation of exocytosis regulation of synaptic vesicle fusion to presynaptic active zone membrane neuromuscular synaptic transmission synaptic vesicle recycling sensory perception of touch protein transport positive regulation of exocytosis synaptic vesicle maturation neurotransmitter secretion positive regulation of regulated secretory pathway exocytosis neutrophil degranulation post-translational protein modification transport intracellular protein transport vesicle docking involved in exocytosis protein secretion Rab protein signal transduction protein localization to plasma membrane plasma membrane repair regulation of synaptic vesicle priming synaptic vesicle transport acrosomal vesicle exocytosis regulation of synaptic vesicle exocytosis calcium-ion regulated exocytosis synaptic vesicle clustering Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 5864 19339 Ensembl ENSG00000105649 ENSMUSG00000031840 UniProt P20336 P63011 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002866 NM_001166399 NM_009001 NM_001328047 NM_001378892 NM_001378893 RefSeq (protein) NP_002857 NP_002857.1 NP_001159871 NP_001314976 NP_033027 NP_001365821 NP_001365822 Location (UCSC) Chr 19: 18.2 – 18.2 Mb Chr 8: 71.21 – 71.21 Mb PubMed search
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Interactions

RAB3A has been shown to interact with:

• RIMS1,
• UNC13A,
• RPH3A, and
• CHM.

Further reading

• Khosravi-Far R, Lutz RJ, Cox AD, Conroy L, Bourne JR, Sinensky M, Balch WE, Buss JE, Der CJ (1991). "Isoprenoid modification of rab proteins terminating in CC or CXC motifs". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 (14): 6264–8. Bibcode:1991PNAS...88.6264K. doi:10.1073/pnas.88.14.6264. PMC 52063. PMID 1648736.
• 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.
• Farnsworth CC, Seabra MC, Ericsson LH, Gelb MH, Glomset JA (1995). "Rab geranylgeranyl transferase catalyzes the geranylgeranylation of adjacent cysteines in the small GTPases Rab1A, Rab3A, and Rab5A". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 (25): 11963–7. Bibcode:1994PNAS...9111963F. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.25.11963. PMC 45356. PMID 7991565.
• McKiernan CJ, Brondyk WH, Macara IG (1993). "The Rab3A GTPase interacts with multiple factors through the same effector domain. Mutational analysis of cross-linking of Rab3A to a putative target protein". J. Biol. Chem. 268 (32): 24449–52. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(20)80546-8. PMID 8226995.
• Trask B, Fertitta A, Christensen M, Youngblom J, Bergmann A, Copeland A, de Jong P, Mohrenweiser H, Olsen A, Carrano A (1993). "Fluorescence in situ hybridization mapping of human chromosome 19: cytogenetic band location of 540 cosmids and 70 genes or DNA markers". Genomics. 15 (1): 133–45. doi:10.1006/geno.1993.1021. PMID 8432525.
• Johannes L, Perez F, Laran-Chich MP, Henry JP, Darchen F (1996). "Characterization of the interaction of the monomeric GTP-binding protein Rab3a with geranylgeranyl transferase II". Eur. J. Biochem. 239 (2): 362–8. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0362u.x. PMID 8706741.
• Burton JL, Slepnev V, De Camilli PV (1997). "An evolutionarily conserved domain in a subfamily of Rabs is crucial for the interaction with the guanyl nucleotide exchange factor Mss4". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (6): 3663–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.6.3663. PMID 9013620.
• Geppert M, Goda Y, Stevens CF, Südhof TC (1997). "The small GTP-binding protein Rab3A regulates a late step in synaptic vesicle fusion". Nature. 387 (6635): 810–4. doi:10.1038/42954. PMID 9194562. S2CID 4359038.
• Martincic I, Peralta ME, Ngsee JK (1997). "Isolation and characterization of a dual prenylated Rab and VAMP2 receptor". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (43): 26991–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.43.26991. PMID 9341137.
• Ostermeier C, Brunger AT (1999). "Structural basis of Rab effector specificity: crystal structure of the small G protein Rab3A complexed with the effector domain of rabphilin-3A". Cell. 96 (3): 363–74. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80549-8. PMID 10025402. S2CID 15162326.
• Jung YJ, Lee TH, Lee JY, Kim JH, Park JB (1999). "Phosphatidic acid is important to the translocation of Rab3A from the cytosol to phospholipid membranes". NeuroReport. 10 (13): 2859–63. doi:10.1097/00001756-199909090-00029. PMID 10511453.
• Sullivan M, Olsen AS, Houslay MD (2000). "Genomic organisation of the human cyclic AMP-specific phosphodiesterase PDE4C gene and its chromosomal localisation to 19p13.1, between RAB3A and JUND". Cell. Signal. 11 (10): 735–42. doi:10.1016/S0898-6568(99)00037-6. PMID 10574328.
• Clabecq A, Henry JP, Darchen F (2000). "Biochemical characterization of Rab3-GTPase-activating protein reveals a mechanism similar to that of Ras-GAP". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (41): 31786–91. doi:10.1074/jbc.M003705200. PMID 10859313.
• Haynes LP, Evans GJ, Morgan A, Burgoyne RD (2001). "A direct inhibitory role for the Rab3-specific effector, Noc2, in Ca2 -regulated exocytosis in neuroendocrine cells". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (13): 9726–32. doi:10.1074/jbc.M006959200. PMID 11134008.
• Zhang Y, Luan Z, Liu A, Hu G (2001). "The scaffolding protein CASK mediates the interaction between rabphilin3a and beta-neurexins". FEBS Lett. 497 (2–3): 99–102. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(01)02450-4. PMID 11377421. S2CID 33119468.
• Luo HR, Saiardi A, Nagata E, Ye K, Yu H, Jung TS, Luo X, Jain S, Sawa A, Snyder SH (2001). "GRAB: a physiologic guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rab3A, which interacts with inositol hexakisphosphate kinase". Neuron. 31 (3): 439–51. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00384-1. PMID 11516400. S2CID 10990373.
• Piiper A, Leser J, Lutz MP, Beil M, Zeuzem S (2001). "Subcellular distribution and function of Rab3A-D in pancreatic acinar AR42J cells". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 287 (3): 746–51. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2001.5651. PMID 11563859.
• Kuroda TS, Fukuda M, Ariga H, Mikoshiba K (2002). "The Slp homology domain of synaptotagmin-like proteins 1-4 and Slac2 functions as a novel Rab27A binding domain". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (11): 9212–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M112414200. PMID 11773082.