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- * 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase signature *
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- 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.44) (6PGD) catalyzes the third step
- in the hexose monophosphate shunt, the decarboxylating reduction of
- 6-phosphogluconate in to ribulose 5-phosphate.
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- Prokaryotic and eukaryotic 6PGD are proteins of about 470 amino acids whose
- sequence are highly conserved [1]. As a signature pattern we have selected a
- region which has been shown [2], from studies of the sheep 6PGD tertiary
- structure, to be involved in the binding of 6-phosphogluconate.
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- -Consensus pattern: [LIVM]-x-D-x(2)-[GA]-[NQS]-K-G-T-G-x-W
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Expert(s) to contact by email: Reizer J.
- jreizer@ucsd.edu
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- -Last update: October 1993 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Reizer A., Deutscher J., Saier M.H. Jr., Reizer J.
- Mol. Microbiol. 5:1081-1089(1991).
- [ 2] Adams M.J., Archibald I.G., Bugg C.E., Carne A., Gover S.,
- Helliwell J.R., Pickersgill R.W., White S.W.
- EMBO J. 2:1009-1014(1983).
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