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- * Bacterioferritin signature *
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- Bacterioferritin (BFR) [1,2] is a prokaryotic iron-storing protein that may
- perform analogous functions in iron detoxification and storage as that of
- eukaryotic ferritins. BFR is also known as cytochrome b-1, b-557, b-557.5, or
- b-559 in various bacterial species.
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- BFR is an oligomer composed of 24 identical subunits that contains protoheme
- IX in addition to the non-heme iron core. The two axial ligands for the heme
- group iron have been shown [3] to be methionine residues. Although it is not
- yet known which methionines are involved in the ligation, it has been proposed
- that the initiator methionine (Met-1) and a C-terminal methionine (Met-144 in
- Escherichia coli BFR) are good candidate for such ligands.
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- As a signature pattern we selected the conserved N-terminal extremity of BFR.
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- -Consensus pattern: <M-x-G-x(3)-V-[LIV]-x(2)-L-x-K
- [M is a putative heme iron ligand]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: June 1992 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Andrews S.C., Smith J.M.A., Guest J.R., Harrison P.M.
- Biochem. Soc. Trans. 18:658-659(1990).
- [ 2] Andrews S.C., Findlay J.B.C., Guest J.R., Harrison P.M., Keen J.N.,
- Smith J.M.A.
- Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1078:111-116(1991).
- [ 3] Cheesman M.R., Thomson A.J., Greenwood C., Moore G.R., Kadir F.
- Nature 346:771-773(1990).
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