Protein Family Models

This family includes proteins containing domains which bind to iron-sulfur clusters. Members include bacterial ferredoxins, various dehydrogenases, and various reductases. The structure of the domain is an alpha-antiparallel beta sandwich. (from Pfam)

Date:

2024-08-14

Radical SAM proteins catalyse diverse reactions, including unusual methylations, isomerisation, sulphur insertion, ring formation, anaerobic oxidation and protein radical formation. [1]. 11222759. Radical SAM, a novel protein superfamily linking unresolved steps in familiar biosynthetic pathways with radical mechanisms: functional characterization using new analysis and information visualization methods. Sofia HJ, Chen G, Hetzler BG, Reyes-Spindola JF, Miller NE;. Nucleic Acids Res 2001;29:1097-1106. [2]. 17335281. Anaerobic sulfatase-maturating enzymes: radical SAM enzymes able to catalyze in vitro sulfatase post-translational modification. Benjdia A, Leprince J, Guillot A, Vaudry H, Rabot S, Berteau O;. J Am Chem Soc. 2007;129:3462-3463. [3]. 16766528. A new type of bacterial sulfatase reveals a novel maturation pathway in prokaryotes. Berteau O, Guillot A, Benjdia A, Rabot S;. J Biol Chem. 2006;281:22464-22470. (from Pfam)

Date:

2024-10-16

glycyl-radical enzyme activating protein similar to Clostridioides difficile 4-hydroxyphenylacetate decarboxylase activating enzyme that catalyzes the activation of 4-hydroxyphenylacetate decarboxylase under anaerobic conditions by generation of an organic free radical on a glycine residue, via a homolytic cleavage of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)

Date:

2020-06-02

This subset of the radical-SAM family (PF04055) includes a number of probable activating proteins acting on different enzymes all requiring an amino-acid-centered radical. The closest relatives to this family are the pyruvate-formate lyase activating enzyme (PflA, 1.97.1.4, TIGR02493) and the anaerobic ribonucleotide reductase activating enzyme (TIGR02491). Included within this subfamily are activators of hydroxyphenyl acetate decarboxylase (HdpA, [1]), benzylsuccinate synthase (BssD, [2]), gycerol dehydratase (DhaB2, [3]) as well as enzymes annotated in E. coli as activators of different isozymes of pyruvate-formate lyase (PFLC and PFLE) however, these appear to lack characterization and may activate enzymes with distinctive functions. Most of the sequence-level variability between these forms is concentrated within an N-terminal domain which follows a conserved group of three cysteines and contains a variable pattern of 0 to 8 additional cysteines.

Date:

2024-02-28