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- * Cytosol aminopeptidase signature *
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- Cytosol aminopeptidase is a eukaryotic cytosolic zinc-dependent exopeptidase
- that catalyzes the removal of unsubstituted amino-acid residues from the
- N-terminus of proteins. This enzyme is often known as leucine aminopeptidase
- (EC 3.4.11.1) (LAP) but has been shown [1] to be identical with prolyl
- aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.5). Cytosol aminopeptidase is a hexamer of identical
- chains, each of which binds two zinc ions.
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- Cytosol aminopeptidase is highly similar to Escherichia coli pepA, a manganese
- dependent aminopeptidase. Residues involved in zinc ion-binding [2] in the
- mammalian enzyme are absolutely conserved in pepA where they presumably bind
- manganese.
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- A cytosol aminopeptidase from Rickettsia prowazekii [3] and one from
- Arabidopsis thaliana also belong to this family.
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- As a signature pattern for these enzymes, we selected a perfectly conserved
- octapeptide which contains two residues involved in binding metal ions: an
- aspartate and a glutamate.
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- -Consensus pattern: N-T-D-A-E-G-R-L
- [The D and the E are zinc/manganese ligands]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: October 1993 / Text revised.
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- [ 1] Matsushima M., Takahashi T., Ichinose M., Miki K., Kurokawa K.,
- Takahashi K.
- Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 178:1459-1464(1991).
- [ 2] Burley S.K., David P.R., Sweet R.M., Taylor A., Lipscomb W.N.
- J. Mol. Biol. 224:113-140(1992).
- [ 3] Wood D.O., Solomon M.J., Speed R.R.
- J. Bacteriol. 175:159-165(1993).
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