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- * Nitrite reductases and sulfite reductase putative siroheme-binding sites *
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- Nitrite reductases (NiR) [1] catalyze the reduction of nitrite into ammonium,
- the second step in the assimilation of nitrate. There are two types of NiR:
- the higher plant chloroplastic form of NiR (EC 1.7.7.1) is a monomeric protein
- that uses reduced ferredoxin as the electron donor; while fungal and bacterial
- NiR (EC 1.6.6.4) are homodimeric proteins that uses NAD(P)H as the electron
- donor. Both forms of NiR contain a siroheme-Fe and iron-sulfur centers.
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- Sulfite reductase (NADPH) (EC 1.8.1.2) (SIR) [2] is the bacterial enzyme that
- catalyzes the reduction of sulfite to sulfide. SIR is an oligomeric enzyme
- with a subunit composition of alpha(8)-beta(4), the alpha component is a
- flavoprotein, while the beta component is a siroheme, iron-sulfur protein.
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- Anaerobic sulfite reductase (EC 1.8.1.-) (ASR) [3], a bacterial enzyme that
- catalyzes the NADH-dependent reduction of sulfite to sulfide. ASR is an
- oligomeric enzyme composed of three different subunits. The C component (gene
- asrC) seems to be a siroheme, iron-sulfur protein.
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- These enzymes share a region of sequence similarity in their C-terminal half;
- this region which spans about 80 amino acids includes four conserved cysteine
- residues. Two of the Cys are grouped together at the beginning of the domain,
- and the two others are grouped in the middle of the domain. It is suggested
- that these cysteines are involved in the binding of the siroheme group and/or
- the iron-sulfur center.
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- We have derived a signature pattern from the region around the second cluster
- of cysteines.
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- -Consensus pattern: [STV]-G-C-x(3)-C-x(6)-[DE]-[LIVMF]-G-[LIVMF]
- [The two C's are putative siroheme binding residues]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: December 1992 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Campbell W.H., Kinghorn J.R.
- Trends Biochem. Sci. 15:315-319(1990).
- [ 2] Ostrowski J., Wu J.-Y., Rueger D.C., Miller B.E., Siegel L.M.,
- Kredich N.M.
- J. Biol. Chem. 264:15726-15737(1989).
- [ 3] Huang C.J., Barrett E.L.
- J. Bacteriol. 173:1544-1553(1991).
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