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- * Prokaryotic 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.
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- Prokaryotic organisms, such as Escherichia coli, have two type I topoisomerase
- isozymes: topoisomerase I (gene topA) and topoisomerase III (gene topB).
- Eukaryotic organisms also have two isozymes. The first, TOP1, is not
- structurally related to the prokaryotic type I isozymes, but the second, TOP3,
- is.
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- There are a number of conserved residues in the region around the active site
- tyrosine; we used this region as a signature pattern.
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- -Consensus pattern: [RKS]-L-Y-x(4,5)-[LI]-[ST]-Y-x-R-[ST]-[DEQ]
- [The second 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: June 1994 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Sternglanz R.
- Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 1:533-535(1990).
- [ 2] Bjornsti M.-A.
- Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 1:99-103(1991).
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