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Members of this family include RhoA, RhoB, RhoC (which are isoforms), Cdc42, G25K, RhoG, Rac1, Rac2, and TC10 (reviewed in [ 34 ] ). In fibroblast models, these GTPases have been proposed to act in a concerted hierarchy to coordinately regulate distinct morphological features.
The Rho family of GTPases is largely responsible for maintenance of cell shape in a variety of cell types, and this involves regulation of the actin cytoskeleton.
Further study of Rho and it's related GTPases and downstream effector molecules, will be important in elucidating mechanisms regulating the lymphocyte cytoskeleton and thus T cell function.
Hence, considerable diversity of protein domains appears to have emerged prior to the "crystallization" [ 95 ] of a transcription machinery similar to the one that operates in modern cells and probably had been already in place in LUCA [ 96 ] . Similar conclusions regarding the early stages of protein domain evolution have been reached previously as a result of evolutionary analysis of proteins involved in translation, such as aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and GTPases: substantial diversification of protein domains had occurred prior to the "crystallization" of elaborate, modern-type translation machinery [ 66 97 ] .
Interestingly, inhibition of Rho-p160ROCK has recently been shown to give similar lymphocyte morphology as inhibition of Rho with C3 [ 50 ] . Another interesting candidate may be p120 PKN, as recent studies have established that PKN phosphorylates cytoskeletal intermediate filaments [ 47 ] and is directly linked to the cytoskeletal network through associations with α-actinin [ 48 ] . Also, PKN may be involved in relating cytoplasmic signals to the nucleus, for in response to stress, nuclear translocation of PKN occurs [ 49 ] . This is particularly important in light of previous work demonstrating that inactivation of Rho in peripheral blood T lymphocytes inhibits costimulatory signals up-regulating IL-2 production [ 25 ] . Future experiments will focus on determining the relationship of Rho GTPases and the regulation of T cell morphology [ 25 51 52 ] .
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