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==CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS MAF PROTEIN==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[1ex2]] is a 2 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_subtilis Bacillus subtilis]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1EX2 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1EX2 FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 1.85&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=FRU:FRUCTOSE'>FRU</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=GLC:ALPHA-D-GLUCOSE'>GLC</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=PO4:PHOSPHATE+ION'>PO4</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1ex2 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=1ex2 OCA], [https://pdbe.org/1ex2 PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=1ex2 RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/1ex2 PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=1ex2 ProSAT], [https://www.topsan.org/Proteins/MCSG/1ex2 TOPSAN]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/NTPPA_BACSU NTPPA_BACSU] Nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphatase that hydrolyzes dTTP and UTP. Can also hydrolyze CTP and the modified nucleotides pseudo-UTP, 5-methyl-CTP (m(5)CTP) and 5-methyl-UTP (m(5)UTP) (PubMed:24210219). May have a dual role in cell division arrest and in preventing the incorporation of modified nucleotides into cellular nucleic acids (PubMed:24210219).<ref>PMID:24210219</ref> 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Three-dimensional structures of functionally uncharacterized proteins may furnish insight into their functions. The potential benefits of three-dimensional structural information regarding such proteins are particularly obvious when the corresponding genes are conserved during evolution, implying an important function, and no functional classification can be inferred from their sequences. The Bacillus subtilis Maf protein is representative of a family of proteins that has homologs in many of the completely sequenced genomes from archaea, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes, but whose function is unknown. As an aid in exploring function, we determined the crystal structure of this protein at a resolution of 1.85 A. The structure, in combination with multiple sequence alignment, reveals a putative active site. Phosphate ions present at this site and structural similarities between a portion of Maf and the anticodon-binding domains of several tRNA synthetases suggest that Maf may be a nucleic acid-binding protein. The crystal structure of a Maf-nucleoside triphosphate complex provides support for this hypothesis and hints at di- or oligonucleotides with either 5'- or 3'-terminal phosphate groups as ligands or substrates of Maf. A further clue comes from the observation that the structure of the Maf monomer bears similarity to that of the recently reported Methanococcus jannaschii Mj0226 protein. Just as for Maf, the structure of this predicted NTPase was determined as part of a structural genomics pilot project. The structural relation between Maf and Mj0226 was not apparent from sequence analysis approaches. These results emphasize the potential of structural genomics to reveal new unexpected connections between protein families previously considered unrelated.

Functional implications from crystal structures of the conserved Bacillus subtilis protein Maf with and without dUTP.,Minasov G, Teplova M, Stewart GC, Koonin EV, Anderson WF, Egli M Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Jun 6;97(12):6328-33. PMID:10841541<ref>PMID:10841541</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Bacillus subtilis]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Anderson WF]]
[[Category: Egli M]]
[[Category: Koonin EV]]
[[Category: Minasov G]]
[[Category: Stewart GC]]
[[Category: Teplova M]]