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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: Sci STKE. 2004 Sep 7;2004(250):RE13. doi: 10.1126/stke.2502004re13

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

RAS proteins exist in equilibrium between GTP- and GDP-bound forms. GEFs and GAPs regulate the relative amounts of each form. The GTP-bound conformation of RAS shows high-affinity interactions with effector proteins that propagate downstream signaling.