RAB23

RAB23, member RAS oncogene family
PDB rendering based on 1z22.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 1z22​, 1z2a​
Identifiers
Symbols	RAB23 ; HSPC137
External IDs	OMIM: 606144 MGI: 99833 HomoloGene: 7503 GeneCards: RAB23 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • GTPase activity • protein binding • GTP binding Cellular component • cytoplasm • autophagosome • plasma membrane • endosome membrane • phagocytic vesicle membrane • phagocytic vesicle • extracellular exosome Biological process • autophagosome assembly • neural tube closure • intracellular protein transport • cellular defense response • regulation of smoothened signaling pathway • spinal cord dorsal/ventral patterning • Rab protein signal transduction • cilium assembly • embryonic digit morphogenesis • negative regulation of transcription factor import into nucleus • negative regulation of proteolysis • craniofacial suture morphogenesis Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	51715	19335
Ensembl	ENSG00000112210	ENSMUSG00000004768
UniProt	Q9ULC3	Q9D4I9
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001278666	NM_001159729
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001265595	NP_001153201
Location (UCSC)	Chr 6: 57.19 – 57.22 Mb	Chr 1: 33.72 – 33.74 Mb
PubMed search

Ras-related protein Rab-23 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB23 gene.^[1][2][3] Alternative splicing occurs at this gene locus and two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been identified.^[4]

Function

RAB23 belongs to the small GTPase superfamily, Rab family. It may be involved in small GTPase mediated signal transduction and intracellular protein transportation.^[4]

RAB23 is an essential negative regulator of the Sonic hedgehog signaling pathway.^[2] The first understanding of biological processes requiring the Rab23 gene came from 2 independent mouse mutations in the gene ^[5][6] and an epistasis analysis with mutations in the mouse shh gene.^[2] These studies showed that the gene is required for normal development of the brain and spinal cord and that the morphological defects seen in mutant embryos, such as failure to close dorsal regions of the neural tube during development, appeared secondary to expansion of ventral and reduction of dorsal identities in the developing neural tube. These same mutations implicated the RAB23 gene in development of digits and eyes. The mouse open brain (opb) and Sonic hedgehog (Shh) genes have opposing roles in neural patterning: opb is required for dorsal cell types and Shh is required for ventral cell types in the spinal cord.^[2]

References

1. Zhang QH, Ye M, Wu XY, Ren SX, Zhao M, Zhao CJ, Fu G, Shen Y, Fan HY, Lu G, Zhong M, Xu XR, Han ZG, Zhang JW, Tao J, Huang QH, Zhou J, Hu GX, Gu J, Chen SJ, Chen Z (October 2000). "Cloning and functional analysis of cDNAs with open reading frames for 300 previously undefined genes expressed in CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells". Genome Res. 10 (10): 1546–60. doi:10.1101/gr.140200. PMC 310934. PMID 11042152.
2. Eggenschwiler JT, Espinoza E, Anderson KV (July 2001). "Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway". Nature 412 (6843): 194–8. doi:10.1038/35084089. PMID 11449277.
3. Marcos I, Borrego S, Antiñolo G (December 2003). "Molecular cloning and characterization of human RAB23, a member of the group of Rab GTPases". Int. J. Mol. Med. 12 (6): 983–7. doi:10.3892/ijmm.12.6.983. PMID 14612978.
4. "Entrez Gene: RAB23 RAB23, member RAS oncogene family".
5. Günther T, Struwe M, Aguzzi A, Schughart K (November 1994). "Open brain, a new mouse mutant with severe neural tube defects, shows altered gene expression patterns in the developing spinal cord". Development 120 (11): 3119–30. PMID 7720556.
6. Kasarskis A, Manova K, Anderson KV (June 1998). "A phenotype-based screen for embryonic lethal mutations in the mouse". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (13): 7485–90. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.13.7485. PMC 22659. PMID 9636176.

Further reading

• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Imabayashi H, Mori T, Gojo S, et al. (2003). "Redifferentiation of dedifferentiated chondrocytes and chondrogenesis of human bone marrow stromal cells via chondrosphere formation with expression profiling by large-scale cDNA analysis.". Exp. Cell Res. 288 (1): 35–50. doi:10.1016/S0014-4827(03)00130-7. PMID 12878157.
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6.". Nature 425 (6960): 805–11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404.
• Evans TM, Ferguson C, Wainwright BJ, et al. (2004). "Rab23, a negative regulator of hedgehog signaling, localizes to the plasma membrane and the endocytic pathway.". Traffic 4 (12): 869–84. doi:10.1046/j.1600-0854.2003.00141.x. PMID 14617350.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Liu YJ, Wang Q, Li W, et al. (2007). "Rab23 is a potential biological target for treating hepatocellular carcinoma.". World J. Gastroenterol. 13 (7): 1010–7. doi:10.3748/wjg.v13.i7.1010. PMID 17373734.
• Jenkins D, Seelow D, Jehee FS, et al. (2007). "RAB23 mutations in Carpenter syndrome imply an unexpected role for hedgehog signaling in cranial-suture development and obesity.". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 80 (6): 1162–70. doi:10.1086/518047. PMC 1867103. PMID 17503333.