On the other hand, although Ran has its own weak hydrolytic activity, the hydrolysis of RanGTP to RanGDP is strongly accelerated by the GTPase-activating protein RanGAP1, in conjunction with Ran binding protein 1 (RanBP1) and/or Ran binding protein 2 (RanBP2, also called Nup358).
After translocation through the NPCs, the RanGTP/importin [beta]1 export complex and RanGTP/CAS/importin [alpha] export complex are dissociated through the conversion of RanGTP in these complexes to RanGDP by cytoplasmic RanGAP1 with the aid of RanBP1 and/or RanBP2.
Comparison with previous gene expression analysis of CRC that used tissue from the tumor as the source of RNA revealed that 4 of our differentially upregulated genes, PSAM3,
RANBP1, GCLC, and KIAA0101, had been previously identified in 2 different studies as upregulated in CRC (12,13).