Summary: Thiolase, N-terminal domain
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Thiolase is reported to be structurally related to beta-ketoacyl synthase (PF00109), and also chalcone synthase.
Literature references
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Mathieu M, Modis Y, Zeelen JP, Engel CK, Abagyan RA, Ahlberg A, Rasmussen B, Lamzin VS, Kunau WH, Wierenga RK; , J Mol Biol 1997;273:714-728.: The 1.8 A crystal structure of the dimeric peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: implications for substrate binding and reaction mechanism. PUBMED:9402066 EPMC:9402066
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SCOOP: | ACP_syn_III ACP_syn_III_C Chal_sti_synt_N FAE1_CUT1_RppA HMG_CoA_synt_N ketoacyl-synt SpoVAD TsaD |
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: | ketoacyl-synt |
External database links
HOMSTRAD: | thiolase |
PROSITE: | PDOC00092 |
SCOP: | 1pxt |
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InterPro entry IPR020616
Two different types of thiolase [PUBMED:1755959, PUBMED:2191949, PUBMED:1354266] are found both in eukaryotes and in prokaryotes: acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase (EC) and 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (EC). 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (also called thiolase I) has a broad chain-length specificity for its substrates and is involved in degradative pathways such as fatty acid beta-oxidation. Acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase (also called thiolase II) is specific for the thiolysis of acetoacetyl-CoA and involved in biosynthetic pathways such as poly beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis or steroid biogenesis.
In eukaryotes, there are two forms of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase: one located in the mitochondrion and the other in peroxisomes.
There are two conserved cysteine residues important for thiolase activity. The first located in the N-terminal section of the enzymes is involved in the formation of an acyl-enzyme intermediate; the second located at the C-terminal extremity is the active site base involved in deprotonation in the condensation reaction.
Mammalian nonspecific lipid-transfer protein (nsL-TP) (also known as sterol carrier protein 2) is a protein which seems to exist in two different forms: a 14 Kd protein (SCP-2) and a larger 58 Kd protein (SCP-x). The former is found in the cytoplasm or the mitochondria and is involved in lipid transport; the latter is found in peroxisomes. The C-terminal part of SCP-x is identical to SCP-2 while the N-terminal portion is evolutionary related to thiolases [PUBMED:1755959].
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Molecular function | transferase activity, transferring acyl groups other than amino-acyl groups (GO:0016747) |
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan Thiolase (CL0046), which has the following description:
Thiolases are ubiquitous and form a large superfamily. Thiolases can function either degradatively, in the beta-oxidation pathway of fatty acids, or biosynthetically. Biosynthetic thiolases catalyse the formation of acetoacetyl-CoA from two molecules of acetyl-CoA . This is one of the fundamental categories of carbon skeletal assembly patterns in biological systems and is the first step in a wide range of biosynthetic pathways [1]. Thiolase are usually dimeric or tetrameric enzymes. Within each monomer there are two similar domains related by pseudo dyad. The N-terminal of these two domains contains a large insertion of about 100 amino acids.
The clan contains the following 14 members:
ACP_syn_III ACP_syn_III_C Chal_sti_synt_C Chal_sti_synt_N FAE1_CUT1_RppA HMG_CoA_synt_C HMG_CoA_synt_N KAsynt_C_assoc ketoacyl-synt Ketoacyl-synt_2 Ketoacyl-synt_C SpoVAD Thiolase_C Thiolase_NAlignments
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Seed source: | Prosite |
Previous IDs: | thiolase; |
Type: | Domain |
Sequence Ontology: | SO:0000417 |
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Number in seed: | 30 |
Number in full: | 35604 |
Average length of the domain: | 245.20 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 30 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 61.59 % |
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3HCDH_N Thiolase_C ECH_1 3HCDH Thiolase_C Thiolase_NStructures
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