The Ral small GTPase is an essential regulator of exocyst complex function in secretion.
Ral GTPases have long been proposed as regulators of the metazoan exocyst, a conserved secretory vesicle-tethering complex, but direct evidence for this role has been scarce. In contrast, the well-studied yeast exocyst relies on multiple Rab GTPases to regulate function, but yeast do not encode Ral. Using Caenorhabditi...