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- * Uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase signatures *
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- Uroporphyrin-III C-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.107) (SUMT) [1,2] catalyzes the
- transfer of two methyl groups from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to the C-2 and C-7
- atoms of uroporphyrinogen III to yield precorrin-2 via the intermediate
- formation of precorrin-1. SUMT is the first enzyme specific to the cobalamin
- pathway and precorrin-2 is a common intermediate in the biosynthesis of
- corrinoids such as vitamin B12, siroheme and coenzyme F430.
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- The sequences of SUMT from a variety of eubacterial and archaebacterial
- species are currently available. In species such as Bacillus megaterium (gene
- cobA), Pseudomonas denitrificans (cobA) or Methanobacterium ivanovii (gene
- corA) SUMT is a protein of about 25 to 30 Kd. In Escherichia coli and related
- bacteria, the cysG protein, which is involved in the biosynthesis of siroheme,
- is a multifunctional protein composed of a N-terminal domain, probably
- involved in transforming precorrin-2 into siroheme, and a C-terminal domain
- which has SUMT activity.
-
- On the basis of extensive sequence similarities, the yeast hypothetical
- protein YKR069w is most probably a SUMT.
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- The sequence of SUMT is related to that of a number of P. denitrificans
- enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of cobalamin which also seem to be SAM-
- dependent methyltransferases [3]. The similarity is especially strong with two
- of these enzymes: cobI which encodes S-adenosyl-L-methionine--precorrin-2
- methyltransferase and cobM whose exact function is not known.
-
- We developed two signature patterns for these enzymes. The first corresponds
- to a well conserved region in the N-terminal extremity (called region 1 in [1,
- 3]) and the second to a less conserved region located in the central part of
- these proteins (this pattern spans what are called regions 2 and 3 in [1,3]).
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- -Consensus pattern: [LIVM]-G-[STA]-G-P-G-x(3)-[LIVM](2)-T-[LIVM]-[KRHG]-[AG]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
-
- -Consensus pattern: V-x(2)-L-x(2)-G-D-x(3)-[FYW]-[GS]-x(8)-[LF]-x(3,4)-
- [LIVMFY]-x-[LIVMFYWP]-x-[LIVM]-x-P-G
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
-
- -Note: yeast diphthine synthase (EC 2.1.1.98) (gene DPH5) seems to be [4]
- evolutionary related to SUMT, but is not detected by the above patterns.
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- -Last update: June 1994 / Patterns and text revised.
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- [ 1] Blanche F., Robin C., Couder M., Faucher D., Cauchois L., Cameron B.,
- Crouzet J.
- J. Bacteriol. 173:4637-4645(1991).
- [ 2] Robin C., Blanche F., Cauchois L., Cameron B., Couder M., Crouzet J.
- J. Bacteriol. 173:4893-4896(1991).
- [ 3] Crouzet J., Cameron B., Cauchois L., Rigault S., Rouyez M.-C.,
- Blanche F., Thibaut D., Debussche L.
- J. Bacteriol. 172:5980-5990(1990).
- [ 4] Mattheakis L.C., Shen W.H., Collier R.J.
- Mol. Cell. Biol. 12:4026-4037(1992).
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