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- * Phosphofructokinase signature *
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- Phosphofructokinase (EC 2.7.1.11) (PFK) [1,2] is a key regulatory enzyme in
- the glycolytic pathway. It catalyzes the phosphorylation by ATP of fructose
- 6-phosphate to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. In bacteria PFK is a tetramer of
- identical 36 Kd subunits. In mammals it is a tetramer of 80 Kd subunits. Each
- 80 Kd subunit consist of two homologous domains which are highly related to
- the bacterial 36 Kd subunits. In Human there are three, tissue-specific, types
- of PFK isozymes: PFKM (muscle), PFKL (liver), and PFKP (platelet). In yeast
- PFK is an octamer composed of four 100 Kd alpha chains (gene PFK1) and four
- 100 Kd beta chains (gene PFK2); like the mammalian 80 Kd subunits, the yeast
- 100 Kd subunits are composed of two homologous domains.
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- As a signature pattern for PFK we selected a region that contains three basic
- residues involved in fructose-6-phosphate binding.
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- -Consensus pattern: [RK]-x(4)-G-H-x-Q-[QR]-G-G-x(5)-D-R
- [The R/K, the H and the Q/R are involved in fructose-6-P
- binding]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Note: Escherichia coli has two phosphofructokinase isozymes which are encoded
- by genes pfkA (major) and pfkB (minor). The pfkB isozyme is not evolutionary
- related to other prokaryotic or eukaryotic PFK's (see the relevant section).
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- -Last update: December 1991 / Text revised.
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- [ 1] Poorman R.A., Randolph A., Kemp R.G., Heinrikson R.L.
- Nature 309:467-469(1984).
- [ 2] Heinisch J., Ritzel R.G., von Borstel R.C., Aguilera A., Rodicio R.,
- Zimmermann F.K.
- Gene 78:309-321(1989).
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