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- * MIP family signature *
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- Recently the sequence of a number of different proteins, that all seem to be
- transmembrane channel proteins, has been found to be highly related [1 to 4].
- These proteins are listed below.
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- - Mammalian major intrinsic protein (MIP). MIP is the major component of lens
- fiber gap junctions. Gap junctions mediate direct exchange of ions and
- small molecule from one cell to another.
- - Mammalian aquaporins [5]. These proteins form water-specific channels
- that provide the plasma membranes of red cells and kidney proximal and
- collecting tubules with high permeability to water, thereby permitting
- water to move in the direction of an osmotic gradient.
- - Soybean nodulin-26, a major component of the peribacteroid membrane induced
- during nodulation in legume roots after Rhizobium infection.
- - Plants tonoplast intrinsic proteins (TIP). There are various isoforms of
- TIP: alpha (seed), gamma, Rt (root), and Wsi (water-stress induced). These
- proteins may allow the diffusion of amino acids and/or peptides from the
- tonoplast interior to the cytoplasm.
- abundantly in the protein storage vacuolar membranes of higher plant seeds.
- - Bacterial glycerol facilitator protein (gene glpF), which facilitates the
- movement of glycerol across the cytoplasmic membrane.
- - Drosophila neurogenic protein 'big brain' (bib). This protein may mediate
- intercellular communication; it may functions by allowing the transport of
- certain molecules(s) and thereby sending a signal for an exodermal cell to
- become an epidermoblast instead of a neuroblast.
- - Yeast FPS1 protein, whose function is not yet known.
- - A hypothetical protein from the pepX region of lactococcus lactis.
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- The MIP family proteins seem to contain six transmembrane segments. Computer
- analysis shows that these protein probably arose by a tandem, intragenic
- duplication event from an ancestral protein that contained three transmembrane
- segments. As a signature pattern we selected a well conserved region which is
- located in a probable cytoplasmic loop between the second and third
- transmembrane regions.
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- -Consensus pattern: [HQ]-x-N-P-[STA]-[LIVMF]-[ST]-[LIVMF]-[AG]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Expert(s) to contact by email: Reizer J.
- jreizer@ucsd.edu
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- -Last update: June 1994 / Text revised.
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- [ 1] Reizer J., Reizer A., Saier M.H. Jr.
- CRC Crit. Rev. Biochem. 28:235-257(1993).
- [ 2] Baker M.E., Saier M.H. Jr.
- Cell 60:185-186(1990).
- [ 3] Pao G.M., Wu L.F., Johnson K.D., Hoefte H., Chrispeels M.J., Sweet G.,
- Sandal N.N., Saier M.H. Jr.
- Mol. Microbiol. 5:33-37(1991).
- [ 4] Wistow G.J., Pisano M.M., Chepelinsky A.B.
- Trends Biochem. Sci. 16:170-171(1991).
- [ 5] Preston G.M., Jung J.S., Guggino W.B., Agre P.
- J. Biol. Chem. 269:1668-1673(1994).
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