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Watson JD, Milner-White EJ (January 2002). "A novel main-chain anion-binding site in proteins: the nest. A particular combination of phi,psi values in successive residues gives rise to anion-binding sites that occur commonly and are found often at functionally important regions".
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comprising the four residues xxGK, as above, whose main chain atoms form a phosphate-sized concavity with the NH groups pointing inwards. The synthetic hexapeptide SGAGKT has been shown to bind inorganic phosphate strongly; since such a short peptide does not form an
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Alignment of the H-Ras mutant A59G mutants in complex with GppNHp (green cartoon) and GDP (cyan cartoon). The P-loop main chain is shown in red, the Mg ion as green sphere and the side chains of the amino acids K16 and S17 are shown as
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reaction) contain a motif which folds into a P-loop-like structure with an arginine in the place of the conserved lysine. The conserved sequence of this motif is C-x(5)-R-, where C and R denote
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Bianchi A, Giorgi C, Ruzza P, Toniolo C, Milner-White EJ (May 2012). "A synthetic hexapeptide designed to resemble a proteinaceous P-loop nest is shown to bind inorganic phosphate".
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in most P-loop proteins situated well downstream of the A-motif. The consensus sequence of this motif was reported to be -x(3)-G-x(3)-LhhhD, where R, K, G, L and D denote
332:, but stays bound to the remaining phosphate groups. Walker motif A-binding has been shown to cause structural changes in the bound nucleotide, along the line of the 588:"Distantly related sequences in the alpha- and beta-subunits of ATP synthase, myosin, kinases and other ATP-requiring enzymes and a common nucleotide binding fold" 488: 553: 518: 1008:"The A-loop, a novel conserved aromatic acid subdomain upstream of the Walker A motif in ABC transporters, is critical for ATP binding" 1170: 687: 313: 508: 398:, essential for ATP-binding, found in about 25 amino acids upstream of the Walker A motif in a subset of P-loop proteins. 349: 289:; these features are typically part of an α/β domain with four strands sandwiched between two helices on each side. The 1096:
Longo LM, Jabłońska J, Vyas P, Kanade M, Kolodny R, Ben-Tal N, Tawfik DS (December 2020). Deane CM, Boudker O (eds.).
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Saraste M, Sibbald PR, Wittinghofer A (November 1990). "The P-loop--a common motif in ATP- and GTP-binding proteins".
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Apart from the conserved lysine, a feature of the P-loop used in phosphate binding is a compound LRLR
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There is a hypothesis that the Walker A phosphate binding motif can be evolutionarily related to
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residues respectively, x represents any of the 20 standard amino acids and h denotes a
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Hanson PI, Whiteheart SW (July 2005). "AAA+ proteins: have engine, will work".
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Upon nucleotide hydrolysis the loop does not significantly change the protein
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Of the two motifs, the A motif is the main "P-loop" responsible for binding
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binding. The motif has the pattern G-x(4)-GK-, where G, K, T and S denote
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amino acid. This motif was changed to be hhhhDE, where E denotes a
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Zhang M, Stauffacher CV, Lin D, Van Etten RL (August 1998).
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of a helix, that is the main phosphate binding feature.
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Ambudkar SV, Kim IW, Xia D, Sauna ZE (February 2006).
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Leipe DD, Wolf YI, Koonin EV, Aravind L (March 2002).
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Ramakrishnan C, Dani VS, Ramasarma T (October 2002).
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are also coordinated to a divalent cation such as a
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P-loop containing nucleoside triphosphate hydrolase
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Molecular Cell Biology 554:Thymidine kinase in clinical chemistry 519:Phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinases 489:Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase 445:and glutamate also form a part of the 31: 7: 971:The Journal of Biological Chemistry 27:ATP-binding protein sequence motifs 827:Bugreev DV, Mazin AV (July 2004). 604:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1982.tb01276.x 25: 394:ring of ATP) refers to conserved 374:(PLP) utilizing enzymes such as 122:Nucleic acid-dependent ATPases: 682:. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. 85:. These were first reported in 746:Trends in Biochemical Sciences 1: 1025:10.1016/j.febslet.2005.12.051 509:Nucleoside-diphosphate kinase 390:residue interacting with the 350:protein tyrosine phosphatases 889:Journal of Molecular Biology 758:10.1016/0968-0004(90)90281-f 641:Journal of Molecular Biology 83:three-dimensional structures 1187: 504:G protein-coupled receptor 356:residue (the reverse of a 1171:Protein structural motifs 722:10.1093/protein/15.10.783 281:-rich loop preceded by a 984:10.1074/jbc.273.34.21714 461:Evolutionary connections 257:. It is present in many 233:that is associated with 97:and co-workers in 1982. 1047:Koonin EV (June 1993). 854:10.1073/pnas.0402105101 499:Cyclin-dependent kinase 368:residues respectively. 1065:10.1093/nar/21.11.2541 1053:Nucleic Acids Research 901:10.1006/jmbi.2001.5227 653:10.1006/jmbi.2001.5378 564:Wall-associated kinase 227:phosphate-binding loop 211: 208: 396:aromatic amino acids 217:, also known as the 1115:10.7554/eLife.64415 977:(34): 21714–21720. 845:2004PNAS..101.9988B 709:Protein Engineering 544:Signal transduction 484:Autophosphorylation 372:Pyridoxal phosphate 285:and followed by an 269:that is bound. The 119:(α and β subunits). 936:10.1002/prot.24038 559:Thymidylate kinase 539:Phosphotransferase 277:-binding. 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Index

P-loop
InterPro
IPR027417
motifs
protein sequence
three-dimensional structures
ATP
proteins
Walker
phosphate
RecA
ATP synthase
ATPases
helicases
Swi2
InterPro
IPR003714
AAA proteins
NACHT
ABC
PilT
Nucleotide kinases
InterPro
IPR000850
G domain proteins
G-proteins
transducin
myosin

proteins

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