Biology:METAP1

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in humans


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Methionine aminopeptidase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the METAP1 gene.[1][2][3] This enzyme is a methionyl aminopeptidase which cleaves the N-terminal methionine from precursor proteins, with particular affinity for when the second amino acid is small and non-charged.[4] Also important for the normal functioning of the cell cycle.[4] This enzyme uses metal cations as a cofactor (making it a metalloprotein), but which one is used in the body remains debated.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. III. The coding sequences of 40 new genes (KIAA0081-KIAA0120) deduced by analysis of cDNA clones from human cell line KG-1". DNA Res 2 (1): 37–43. Jul 1995. doi:10.1093/dnares/2.1.37. PMID 7788527. 
  2. ↑ "Functional expression of human methionine aminopeptidase type 1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Protein Pept Lett 9 (4): 295–303. Jul 2002. doi:10.2174/0929866023408607. PMID 12144506. 
  3. ↑ "Entrez Gene: METAP1 methionyl aminopeptidase 1". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=23173. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Methionine aminopeptidase 1". UniProt consortium. https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P53582/entry. 

Further reading

  • PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Methionine aminopeptidase 1