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- * ATP-dependent DNA ligase signatures *
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- DNA ligase (polydeoxyribonucleotide synthase) is the enzyme that joins two DNA
- fragments by catalyzing the formation of an internucleotide ester bond between
- phosphate and deoxyribose. It is active during DNA replication, DNA repair and
- DNA recombination. There are two forms of DNA ligase: one requires ATP
- (EC 6.5.1.1), the other NAD (EC 6.5.1.2).
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- Eukaryotic, archaebacterial, virus and phage DNA ligases are ATP-dependent.
- During the first step of the joining reaction, the ligase interacts with ATP
- to form a covalent enzyme-adenylate intermediate. A conserved lysine residue
- is the site of adenylation [1,2].
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- Apart from the active site region, the only conserved region common to all
- ATP-dependent DNA ligases is found [3] in the C-terminal section and contains
- a conserved glutamate as well as four positions with conserved basic residues.
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- We developed signature patterns for both conserved regions.
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- -Consensus pattern: [EDQH]-x-K-x-[DN]-G-x-R-[GACV]
- [K is the active site residue]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: 5.
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- -Consensus pattern: E-G-[LIVMA]-[LIVM](2)-[KR]-x(5,8)-[YW]-[QEK]-x(2,6)-[KRH]-
- x(3,5)-K-[LIVMFY]-K
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Last update: December 1992 / Patterns and text revised.
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- [ 1] Tomkinson A.E., Totty N.F., Ginsburg M., Lindahl T.
- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88:400-404(1991).
- [ 2] Lindahl T., Barnes D.E.
- Annu. Rev. Biochem. 61:251-281(1992).
- [ 3] Kletzin A.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 20:5389-5396(1992).
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