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- * Proteasome A-type subunits signature *
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- The proteasome (or macropain) (EC 3.4.99.46) [1,2,3] is an eukaryotic and
- archaebacterial multicatalytic proteinase complex that seems to be involved in
- an ATP/ubiquitin-dependent nonlysosomal proteolytic pathway. In eukaryotes the
- proteasome is composed of about 24 distinct subunits which form a highly
- ordered ring-shaped structure (20S ring).
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- Most proteasome subunits can be classified, on the basis on sequence
- similarities into two groups, A and B. Subunits that belong to the A-type
- group are proteins of from 210 to 290 amino acids that share a number of
- conserved sequence regions. Subunits that are known to belong to this family
- are listed below.
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- - Vertebrate subunits C2 (nu), C3, C8, C9, iota and zeta.
- - Drosophila PROS-28.1, PROS-29 and PROS-35.
- - Yeast C1, C5, C7-alpha (Y8), Y7, Y13 and PUP2.
- - Arabidopsis thaliana subunits alpha and PSM30.
- - Thermoplasma acidophilum alpha-subunit. In this archaebacteria the
- proteasome is composed of only two different subunits.
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- As a signature pattern for proteasome A-type subunits we selected the best
- conserved region, which is located in the N-terminal part of these proteins.
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- -Consensus pattern: [FY]-x(4)-[STN]-x-[FYW]-S-P-x-G-[RKH]-x(2)-Q-[LIVM]-[DE]-
- Y-[SAD]-x(2)-[SAG]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: June 1994 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Rivett A.J.
- Biochem. J. 291:1-10(1993).
- [ 2] Rivett A.J.
- Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 268:1-8(1989).
- [ 3] Goldberg A.L., Rock K.L
- Nature 357:375-379(1992).
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