| Standard Name | RAM2 |
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| Systematic Name | YKL019W |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | Alpha subunit of both the farnesyltransferase and type I geranylgeranyltransferase that catalyze prenylation of proteins containing a CAAX consensus motif; essential protein required for membrane localization of Ras proteins and a-factor (1, 2, 3, 4) |
| Name Description | RAS protein and A-factor Maturation |
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Gene Ontology Annotations All RAM2 GO evidence and references
| View Computational GO annotations for RAM2 | |
| Molecular Function | |
| Manually curated | |
| Biological Process | |
| Manually curated | |
| Cellular Component | |
| Manually curated |
Mutant phenotypes All RAM2 Phenotype evidence and references
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| null | |
| reduction of function | |
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interactions All RAM2 Interaction evidence and references
| 21 total interaction(s) for 10 unique genes/features. | |
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Expression Summary
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Protein Information All RAM2 Protein evidence and references
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| Phosphorylation | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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sequence information
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| Last Update | Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31 | ||||||||||||
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| S288C only | |
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Resources
| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000001502 |
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References cited on this page View Complete Literature Guide for RAM2
| 1) | Mayer ML, et al. (1992) CDC43 and RAM2 encode the polypeptide subunits of a yeast type I protein geranylgeranyltransferase. J Biol Chem 267(29):20589-93 |
| 2) | Gomez R, et al. (1993) Purified yeast protein farnesyltransferase is structurally and functionally similar to its mammalian counterpart. Biochem J 289 ( Pt 1)():25-31 |
| 3) | He B, et al. (1991) RAM2, an essential gene of yeast, and RAM1 encode the two polypeptide components of the farnesyltransferase that prenylates a-factor and Ras proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 88(24):11373-7 |
| 4) | Kohl NE, et al. (1991) Structural homology among mammalian and Saccharomyces cerevisiae isoprenyl-protein transferases. J Biol Chem 266(28):18884-8 |




