Description

IPR022631 is a S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, conserved site.

<p>Two conserved site signatures are present in S-adenosylmethionine synthetase. The more N-terminal site represents a hexapeptide which is thought to be involved in ATP binding whilst the C-terminal conserved site is an almost perfectly conserved glycine-rich nonapeptide.</p> <P>S-adenosylmethionine synthetase (MAT, [ec:2.5.1.6]) is the enzyme that catalyzes the formation of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) from methionine and ATP [[cite:PUB00002572]]. AdoMet is an important methyl donor for transmethylation and is also the propylamino donor in polyamine biosynthesis.</P> <P>In bacteria there is a single isoform of AdoMet synthetase (gene metK), there are two in budding yeast (genes SAM1 and SAM2) and in mammals while in plants there is generally a multigene family.</P> <P>The sequence of AdoMet synthetase is highly conserved throughout isozymes and species. The active sites of both the Escherichia coli and rat liver MAT reside between two subunits, with contributions from side chains of residues from both subunits, resulting in a dimer as the minimal catalytic entity. The side chains that contribute to the ligand binding sites are conserved between the two proteins. In the structures of complexes with the E. coli enzyme, the phosphate groups have the same positions in the (PPi plus Pi) complex and the (ADP plus Pi) complex and are located at the bottom of a deep cavity with the adenosyl group nearer the entrance [[cite:PUB00007175]].</P>

This description is obtained from EB-eye REST.

Associated GO terms

GO predictions are based solely on the InterPro-to-GO mappings published by EMBL-EBI, which are in turn based on the mapping of predicted domains to the InterPro dataset. The InterPro-to-GO mapping was last updated on April 27, 2020, while the GO metadata was last updated on April 27, 2020.

Associated Lotus transcripts 42

Co-occuring domains 1

A list of co-occurring predicted domains within the L. japonicus gene space: