Koonin E V
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1994 Jul 11;22(13):2476-8. doi: 10.1093/nar/22.13.2476.
Using computer methods for identification of amino acid motifs in sequence databases and multiple alignment, it is shown that human proliferation-associated nucleolar protein P120 contains a putative methyltransferase domain that is conserved in a group of bacterial proteins. It is hypothesized that P120 and the related prokaryotic proteins are rRNA methylases required for division of all types of cells.
利用计算机方法在序列数据库中识别氨基酸基序并进行多序列比对,结果表明,人类增殖相关核仁蛋白P120含有一个假定的甲基转移酶结构域,该结构域在一组细菌蛋白中保守。据推测,P120和相关的原核蛋白是所有类型细胞分裂所需的rRNA甲基化酶。