A six-stranded double-psi β barrel is shared by several protein superfamilies
| Autor: | Armando Albert, V. Dhanaraj, Tom L. Blundell, Richard M Castillo, Alexey G. Murzin, Kenji Mizuguchi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Iron-Sulfur Proteins
Models Molecular aspartate-α-decarboxylase Protein family ligand binding Molecular Sequence Data Sequence alignment β barrel Reductase Biology Antiparallel (biochemistry) Protein Structure Secondary 03 medical and health sciences Protein structure Cellulase Hydrogenase Multienzyme Complexes Structural Biology Amino Acid Sequence Molecular Biology Peptide sequence Plant Proteins 030304 developmental biology structure comparison 0303 health sciences DMSO reductase Glutamate Decarboxylase 030302 biochemistry & molecular biology Circular permutation in proteins Formate Dehydrogenases structure prediction Biochemistry Oxidoreductases Sequence Alignment |
| Zdroj: | Structure. 7:227-236 |
| ISSN: | 0969-2126 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0969-2126(99)80028-8 |
| Popis: | Background: Six-stranded β barrels with a pseudo-twofold axis are found in several proteins. One group comprises a Greek-key structure with all strands antiparallel; an example is the N-terminal domain of ferredoxin reductase. Others involve parallel strands forming two psi structures (the double-psi β barrel). A recently discovered example of the latter class is aspartate-α-decarboxylase (ADC) from Escherichia coli , a pyruvoyl-dependent tetrameric enzyme involved in the synthesis of pantothenate. Results: Visual inspection and automated database searches identified the six-stranded double-psi β barrel in ADC, Rhodobacter sphaeroides dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) reductase, E. coli formate dehydrogenase H (FDH H ), the plant defense protein barwin, Humicola insolens endoglucanase V (EGV) and, with a circular permutation, in the aspartic proteinases. Structure-based sequence alignments revealed several interactions including hydrophobic contacts or sidechain–mainchain hydrogen bonds that position the middle β strand under a psi loop, which may significantly contribute to stabilizing the fold. The identification of key interactions allowed the filtering of weak sequence similarities to some of these proteins, which had been detected by sequence database searches. This led to the prediction of the double-psi β-barrel domain in several families of proteins in eukaryotes and archaea. Conclusions: The structure comparison and clustering study of double-psi β barrels suggests that there could be a common homodimeric ancestor to ADC, FDH H and DMSO reductase, and also to barwin and EGV. There are other protein families with unknown structure that are likely to adopt the same fold. In the known structures, the protein active sites cluster around the psi loop, indicating that its rigidity, protrusion and free mainchain functional groups may be well suited to providing a framework for catalysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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