1 Contains
DB identifier | Type | Name |
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IPR018300 | Conserved_site | Aminotransferase, class IV, conserved site |
Type: | Family | Name: | Aminotransferase class IV |
Description: | Aminotransferases share certain mechanistic features with other pyridoxal-phosphate dependent enzymes, such as the covalent binding of the pyridoxal-phosphate group to a lysine residue. On the basis of sequence similarity, these various enzymes can be grouped [] into subfamilies.One of these, called class-IV, currently consists of proteins of about 270 to 415 amino-acid residues that share a few regions of sequence similarity. Surprisingly, the best conserved region does not include the lysine residue to which the pyridoxal-phosphate group is known to be attached, in ilvE, but is located some 40 residues at the C terminus side of the pyridoxal-phosphate-lysine. The D-amino acid transferases (D-AAT), which are among the members of this entry, are required by bacteria to catalyse the synthesis of D-glutamic acid and D-alanine, which are essential constituents of bacterial cell wall and are the building block for other D-amino acids. Despite the difference in the structure of the substrates, D-AATs and L-ATTs have strong similarity [, ]. | Short Name: | Aminotrans_IV |
DB identifier | Type | Name |
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IPR018300 | Conserved_site | Aminotransferase, class IV, conserved site |