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- * Citrate synthase signature *
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- Citrate synthase (EC 4.1.3.7) (CS) is the tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme that
- catalyzes the synthesis of citrate from oxaloacetate and acetyl-CoA in an
- aldol condensation. CS can directly form a carbon-carbon bond in the absence
- of metal ion cofactors.
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- In prokaryotes, citrate synthase is composed of six identical subunits. In
- eukaryotes, there are two isozymes of citrate synthase: one is found in the
- mitochondrial matrix, the second is cytoplasmic. Both seem
- to be dimers of identical chains.
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- There are a number of regions of sequence similarity between prokaryotic and
- eukaryotic citrate synthases. One of the best conserved contains a histidine
- which is one of three residues shown [1] to be involved in the catalytic
- mechanism of the vertebrate mitochondrial enzyme. We used this region as a
- signature pattern.
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- -Consensus pattern: G-[FY]-[GA]-H-x-V-x(1,2)-[RK]-x(2)-D-[PS]-R
- [H is an active site residue]
- -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] Karpusas M., Branchaud B., Remington S.J.
- Biochemistry 29:2213-2219(1990).
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