Summary: Thioesterase superfamily
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Thioesterase superfamily Provide feedback
This family contains a wide variety of enzymes, principally thioesterases. This family includes 4HBT (EC 3.1.2.23) which catalyses the final step in the biosynthesis of 4-hydroxybenzoate from 4-chlorobenzoate in the soil dwelling microbe Pseudomonas CBS-3. This family includes various cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA thioester hydrolases. Long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolases hydrolyse palmitoyl-CoA to CoA and palmitate, they also catalyse the hydrolysis of other long chain fatty acyl-CoA thioesters.
Literature references
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Benning MM, Wesenberg G, Liu R, Taylor KL, Dunaway-Mariano D, Holden HM; , J Biol Chem 1998;273:33572-33579.: The three-dimensional structure of 4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterase from Pseudomonas sp. Strain CBS-3. PUBMED:9837940 EPMC:9837940
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Leesong M, Henderson BS, Gillig JR, Schwab JM, Smith JL; , Structure 1996;4:253-264.: Structure of a dehydratase-isomerase from the bacterial pathway for biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids: two catalytic activities in one active site. PUBMED:8805534 EPMC:8805534
Internal database links
SCOOP: | 4HBT_2 4HBT_3 Acyl-ACP_TE DUF4442 FabA MaoC_dehydrat_N MaoC_dehydratas PS-DH YiiD_C |
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: | Acyl-ACP_TE YiiD_C 4HBT_2 4HBT_3 DUF4442 |
External database links
SCOP: | 1bvq |
This tab holds annotation information from the InterPro database.
InterPro entry IPR006683
A wide variety of enzymes contain this domain, principally thioesterases. Proteins containing this domain include 4HBT (4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterase) (EC) which catalyses the final step in the biosynthesis of 4-hydroxybenzoate from 4-chlorobenzoate in the soil dwelling microbe Pseudomonas CBS-3 [PUBMED:9837940, PUBMED:1610806]. It also includes various cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA thioester hydrolases. Long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolases hydrolyse palmitoyl-CoA to CoA and palmitate, they also catalyse the hydrolysis of other long chain fatty acyl-CoA thioesters [PUBMED:8805534].
Domain organisation
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan HotDog (CL0050), which has the following description:
The HotDog fold was first observed in the structure of Escherichia coli beta-hydroxydecanoyl thiol ester dehydratase (FabA), where Leesong et al. noticed that each subunit of this dimeric enzyme contained a mixed alpha + beta 'hot dog' fold. They described the seven-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet as the 'bun', which wraps around a five-turn alpha-helical 'sausage', This superfamily contains a diverse range of enzymes. Membership includes numerous prokaryotic, archaeal and eukaryotic proteins involved in several related, but distinct, catalytic activities, from metabolic roles such as thioester hydrolysis in fatty acid metabolism, to degradation of phenylacetic acid and the environmental pollutant 4-chlorobenzoate. The superfamily also includes FapR, a non-catalytic bacterial homologue that is involved in transcriptional regulation of fatty acid biosynthesis [1].
The clan contains the following 13 members:
4HBT 4HBT_2 4HBT_3 Acyl-ACP_TE Acyl_CoA_thio AfsA DUF4442 FabA FcoT MaoC_dehydrat_N MaoC_dehydratas PS-DH YiiD_CAlignments
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Curation
Seed source: | Pfam-B_2758 (release 6.4) |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Domain |
Sequence Ontology: | SO:0000417 |
Author: |
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Number in seed: | 127 |
Number in full: | 39838 |
Average length of the domain: | 79.20 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 17 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 47.12 % |
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4HBTStructures
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