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- * Eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I active site *
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- DNA topoisomerase I (EC 5.99.1.2) [1,2] is one of the two types of enzyme that
- catalyze the interconversion of topological DNA isomers. Type I topoisomerases
- act by catalyzing the transient breakage of DNA, one strand at a time, and
- the subsequent rejoining of the strands. When a topoisomerase breaks a DNA
- backbone bond, it simultaneously forms a protein-DNA link where the hydroxyl
- group of a tyrosine residue is joined to a 3'-phosphate on DNA, at one end of
- the enzyme-severed DNA strand. In eukaryotic and poxvirus topoisomerases I,
- there are a number of conserved residues in the region around the active site
- tyrosine.
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- -Consensus pattern: [DE]-x(6)-[GS]-x-S-K-x(2)-Y-[LIVM]-x(3)-[LIVM]
- [Y is the active site tyrosine]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: May 1991 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Sternglanz R.
- Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 1:533-535(1990).
- [ 2] Lynn R.M., Bjornsti M.-A., Caron P.R., Wang J.C.
- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86:3559-3563(1989).
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