PROSITE documentation PDOC00575

Methionine aminopeptidase signatures

Description:

Methionine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.18) (MAP) is responsible for the removal of the amino-terminal (initiator) methionine from nascent eukaryotic cytosolic and cytoplasmic prokaryotic proteins if the penultimate amino acid is small and uncharged. All MAP studied to date are monomeric proteins that require cobalt ions for activity.

Two subfamilies of MAP enzymes are known to exist [1,2]. While being evolutionary related, they only share a limited amount of sequence similarity mostly clustered around the residues shown, in the Escherichia coli MAP [3], to be involved in cobalt-binding.

The first family consists of enzymes from prokaryotes as well as eukaryotic MAP-1, while the second group is made up of archebacterial MAP and eukaryotic MAP-2. The second subfamily also includes proteins which do not seem to be MAP, but that are clearly evolutionary related such as mouse proliferation-associated protein 1 and fission yeast curved DNA-binding protein.

For each of these subfamilies, we developed a specific signature pattern that includes residues known to be involved in colbalt-binding.

Note:

These proteins belong to family M24A and M24C in the classification of peptidases [4,E1].

Last update:

April 2006 / Patterns revised.

Technical section:

PROSITE methods (with tools and information) covered by this documentation:

MAP_1, PS00680Methionine aminopeptidase subfamily 1 signature  (PATTERN)
Consensus pattern: [MFY]-x-G-H-G-[LIVMC]-[GSHN]-x(3)-H-x(4)-[LIVM]-x(1,2)-[HN]-[YWVHF]
H is a cobalt ligand
Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL MAP from family 1
Other sequence(s) detected in Swiss-Prot: NONE.
• Retrieve an alignment of Swiss-Prot true positive hits:
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Retrieve the sequence logo from the alignment
Taxonomic tree view of all Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entries matching PS00680
Retrieve a list of all Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entries matching PS00680
Scan Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entries against PS00680
view ligand binding statistics
Matching PDB structures: 1C21 1C22 1C23 1C24 ... [ALL]
MAP_2, PS01202Methionine aminopeptidase subfamily 2 signature  (PATTERN)
Consensus pattern: [DA]-[LIVMY]-x-K-[LIVM]-D-x-G-x-[HQ]-[LIVMS]-[DNS]-G-x(3)-[DN]
The second D and the last D/N are cobalt ligands
Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL MAP from family 2. Does not detect fission yeast curved DNA-binding protein
Other sequence(s) detected in Swiss-Prot: NONE.
• Retrieve an alignment of Swiss-Prot true positive hits:
  Clustal format, color, condensed view  / Clustal format, color  / Clustal format, plain text  / Fasta format
Retrieve the sequence logo from the alignment
Taxonomic tree view of all Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entries matching PS01202
Retrieve a list of all Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entries matching PS01202
Scan Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entries against PS01202
view ligand binding statistics
Matching PDB structures: 1B59 1B6A 1BN5 1BOA ... [ALL]

References:

1 AuthorsArfin S.M., Kendall R.L., Hall L., Weaver L.H., Stewart A.E., Matthews B.W., Bradshaw R.A.
TitleEukaryotic methionyl aminopeptidases: two classes of cobalt-dependent enzymes.
SourceProc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92:7714-7718(1995).
PubMed ID7644482
2 AuthorsKeeling P.J., Doolittle W.F.
TitleMethionine aminopeptidase-1: the MAP of the mitochondrion?
SourceTrends Biochem. Sci. 21:285-286(1996).
PubMed ID8772380
3 AuthorsRoderick S.L., Matthews B.W.
TitleStructure of the cobalt-dependent methionine aminopeptidase from Escherichia coli: a new type of proteolytic enzyme.
SourceBiochemistry 32:3907-3912(1993).
PubMed ID8471602
4 AuthorsRawlings N.D., Barrett A.J.
TitleEvolutionary families of metallopeptidases.
SourceMethods Enzymol. 248:183-228(1995).
PubMed ID7674922
E1
Sourcehttp://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/lists?peptidas.txt

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