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- * Gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase signature *
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- Gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (EC 2.3.2.2) (GGT) [1] catalyzes the transfer of
- the gamma-glutamyl moiety of glutathione to an acceptor that may be an amino
- acid, a peptide or water (forming glutamate). GGT plays a key role in the
- gamma-glutamyl cycle, a pathway for the synthesis and degradation of
- glutathione. In prokaryotes and eukaryotes, it is an enzyme that consists of
- two polypeptide chains, a heavy and a light subunit, processed from a single
- chain precursor. The active site of GGT is known to be located in the light
- subunit.
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- The sequences of mammalian and bacterial GGT show a number of regions of
- high similarity [2]. Pseudomonas cephalosporin acylases (EC 3.5.1.-) that
- convert 7-beta-(4-carboxybutanamido)-cephalosporanic acid (GL-7ACA) into
- 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7ACA) and glutaric acid are evolutionary related
- to GGT and also show some GGT activity [3]. Like GGT, these GL-7ACA acylases,
- are also composed of two subunits.
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- One of the conserved regions correspond to the N-terminal extremity of the
- mature light chains of these enzymes. We have used this region as a signature
- pattern.
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- -Consensus pattern: T-[STA]-H-x-[ST]-[LIVM]-x(4)-G-[SN]-x-V-[STA]-x-T-x-T-
- [LIVM]-N-x(1,2)-[FY]-G
- -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] Tate S.S., Meister A.
- Meth. Enzymol. 113:400-419(1985).
- [ 2] Suzuki H., Kumagai H., Echigo T., Tochikura T.
- J. Bacteriol. 171:5169-5172(1989).
- [ 3] Ishiye M., Niwa M.
- Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1132:233-239(1992).
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