Description
Product Characteristics:
The Vav family of Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) orchestrate signaling events following lymphocyte antigen receptor activation. Vav3, like Vav (also known as Vav1 or p95Vav), undergoes tyrosine phosphorylation downstream of T cell receptor cross-linkage, and subsequently interacts with 2 adaptor molecules, SLP76 and 3BP2. Following these events, however, the paths of Vav and Vav3 diverge, Vav affects IL-2 promotor activity, while Vav3 impacts gene transcription linked to serum response element (SRE). Furthermore, Vav3 expression follows a cell cycle-dependent pattern, with transient upregulation occuring during mitosis. Encforced Vav3 expression leads to the appearance of multinucleate cells, implicating a role for Vav3 in the control of cytokinesis.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Extracellular matrix
Synonyms: VAV3phospho Y141, Guanine nucleotide exchange factor VAV3, Protein vav 3, Protein vav3, VAV 3, Vav 3 guanine nucleotide exchange factor, VAV 3 oncogene, VAV 3 protein, VAV-3, Vav3, VAV3 oncogene, VAV3 protein, VAV3_HUMAN.
Target Information: This gene is a member of the VAV gene family. The VAV proteins are guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) for Rho family GTPases that activate pathways leading to actin cytoskeletal rearrangements and transcriptional alterations. This gene product acts as a GEF preferentially for RhoG, RhoA, and to a lesser extent, RAC1, and it associates maximally with the nucleotide-free states of these GTPases. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]