The catalytic domain of the P-type ATPase has the haloacid dehalogenase fold
The catalytic domain of the P-type ATPase has the haloacid dehalogenase fold
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DOI:
10.1016/s0968-0004(98)01189-x
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发表时间:
1998-04-01
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Koonin, EV
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作者:
Aravind, L;Galperin, MY;Koonin, EV
P-type ATPases are found in all three domains of life and are known to play a crucial role in the transport of ions across biological membranes1–3. In spite of the physiological importance of P-type ATPases and a number of extensive biochemical studies, little is known about their structure–function relationships and evolutionary connections with other enzyme families. Sequence comparisons have helped in the classification of ATP-utilizing enzymes into several classes of distinct and ancient origin, such as the Walker motif-containing superfamily, the actin-sugar kinase superfamily, and the topoisomerase-histidine kinase superfamily4–6. Each of these superfamilies includes phosphotransferases that transfer phosphate to other moieties and ATPases that couple biologically useful work with the free energy of ATP hydrolysis. Here we show that the P-type ATPases also belong to a large superfamily of hydrolases that are structurally typified by the L-2-haloacid dehalogenase (HAD) 7, 8 from Pseudomonas sp. This superfamily (hereinafter the HAD superfamily) includes several phosphatases, and based on sequence comparisons and the substrate structures, it seems likely that P-type ATPases share a common catalytic mechanism with these enzymes. This analysis helps in predicting the structural fold of the P-type ATPase catalytic domain and also provides clues to the evolutionary history of this vast class of enzymes. Protein sequences of P-type ATPases did not show statistically significant similarity to any proteins from other families when the non-redundant database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information was searched using the gapped BLAST program9. However, when the search was iterated using the PSI-BLAST program, which includes profile construction9, a number of proteins of the HAD superfamily were retrieved within six iterations with expectation (e) values in the range of 10–4 to 10–15. Reciprocally, searches with several members of the HAD superfamily used as queries retrieved P-type ATPases with e-values ranging from 10–6 to 10–25 within three iterations. Motif searches using the MoST program10 with stringent cutoffs (eg r= 0.0085) produced the same results. No false positives were apparent in any of these searches, indicating that P-type ATPases do, indeed, belong to the HAD superfamily. The sequences were further aligned using MACAW11, which resulted in the delineation of three statistically significant motifs (p~ 10–5 to 10–18) in all the HAD superfamily proteins (Fig. 1).