Nucleotide exchange factor

Nucleotide exchange factors (NEFs) are

Function

Many cellular proteins cleave (hydrolyze) nucleoside triphosphates–adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or guanosine triphosphate (GTP)–to their diphosphate forms (ADP and GDP) as a source of energy and to drive conformational changes. These changes in turn affect the structural, enzymatic, or signalling properties of the protein.^[1]

Nucleotide exchange factors actively assist in the exchange of depleted nucleoside diphosphates for fresh nucleoside triphosphates. NEFs are specific for the nucleotides they exchange (ADP or GDP, but not both) and are often specific to a single protein or class of proteins with which they interact.^[2]

See also

• Nucleoside-diphosphate kinase
• Guanine nucleotide exchange factor

References

External links

• Alfred Wittinghofer's Seminar: GTP-Binding Proteins as Molecular Switches

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