Vetting Matthew W, Hegde Subray S, Hazleton Keith Z, Blanchard John S
Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
Protein Sci. 2007 Apr;16(4):755-60. doi: 10.1110/ps.062637707.
The Nostoc punctiforme genes Np275 and Np276 are two adjacently encoded proteins of 98 and 75 amino acids in length and exhibit sequences composed of tandem pentapeptide repeats. The structures of Np275 and a fusion of Np275 and Np276 were determined to 2.1 and 1.5 A, respectively. The two Nostoc proteins fold as highly symmetric right-handed quadrilateral beta-helices similar to the mycobacterial protein MfpA implicated in fluoroquinolone resistance and DNA gyrase inhibition. The sequence composition of the intervening coding region and the ability to express a fused protein by removing the stop codon for Np275 suggests Np275 and Np276 were recently part of a larger ancestral pentapeptide repeat protein.
点状念珠藻基因Np275和Np276是两个相邻编码的蛋白质,长度分别为98和75个氨基酸,并呈现出由串联五肽重复序列组成的序列。Np275以及Np275与Np276的融合蛋白的结构分别被测定为2.1 Å和1.5 Å。这两种念珠藻蛋白折叠成高度对称的右手四边形β-螺旋,类似于与氟喹诺酮耐药性和DNA回旋酶抑制有关的分枝杆菌蛋白MfpA。中间编码区的序列组成以及通过去除Np275的终止密码子来表达融合蛋白的能力表明,Np275和Np276最近是一个更大的祖先五肽重复蛋白的一部分。