Comparisons of adenylate kinases have revealed a particular divergence in the active site lid. In some organisms, particularly the Gram-positive bacteria, residues in the lid domain have been mutated to cysteines and these cysteine residues are resp ...
Comparisons of adenylate kinases have revealed a particular divergence in the active site lid. In some organisms, particularly the Gram-positive bacteria, residues in the lid domain have been mutated to cysteines and these cysteine residues are responsible for the binding of a zinc ion. The bound zinc ion in the lid domain, is clearly structurally homologous to Zinc-finger domains. However, it is unclear whether the adenylate kinase lid is a novel zinc-finger DNA/RNA binding domain, or that the lid bound zinc serves a purely structural function [1].
This family includes both class I and class II oxidoreductases and also NADH oxidases and peroxidases. This domain is actually a small NADH binding domain within a larger FAD binding domain.
This C-terminal domain appears to be a dimerisation domain of the mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor 1. protein. The domain also appears at the C-terminus of FAD-dependent pyridine nucleotide-disulfide oxidoreductases. Apoptosis inducing factor ...
This C-terminal domain appears to be a dimerisation domain of the mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor 1. protein. The domain also appears at the C-terminus of FAD-dependent pyridine nucleotide-disulfide oxidoreductases. Apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) is a bifunctional mitochondrial flavoprotein critical for energy metabolism and induction of caspase-independent apoptosis. On reduction with NADH, AIF undergoes dimerisation and forms tight, long-lived FADH2-NAD charge-transfer complexes proposed to be functionally important.
