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- * Cysteine synthase/cystathionine beta-synthase P-phosphate attachment site *
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- Cysteine synthase (EC 4.2.99.8) (CSase) is the pyridoxal-phosphate dependent
- enzyme responsible [1] for the formation of cysteine from O-acetyl-serine and
- hydrogen sulfide with the concomitant release of acetic acid. In bacteria such
- as Escherichia coli, two forms of the enzyme are known (genes cysK and cysM).
- In plants there are also two forms, one located in the cytoplasm and the other
- in chloroplasts.
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- Cystathionine beta-synthase (EC 4.2.1.22) [2] catalyzes the first irreversible
- step in homocysteine transulfuration; the conjugation of homocysteine and
- serine forming cystathionine. Like Csase it is a pyridoxal-phosphate dependent
- enzyme.
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- The two types of enzymes are evolutionary related. The pyridoxal-phosphate
- group of CSases has been shown to be attached to a lysine residue which is
- located in the N-terminal section of these enzymes; the sequence around this
- residue is highly conserved and can be used as a signature pattern to detect
- this class of enzymes.
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- -Consensus pattern: K-x-E-x(3)-[PA]-[STAGC]-x-S-[IV]-K-x-R-x-[STAG]-x(2)-M
- [The 2nd K is the pyridoxal-P attachment site]
- -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] Saito K., Kurosawa M., Murakoshi I.
- FEBS Lett. 328:111-114(1993).
- [ 2] Swaroop M., Bradley K., Ohura T., Tahara T., Roper M.D., Rosenberg L.E.,
- Kraus J.P.
- J. Biol. Chem. 267:11455-11461(1992).
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