Biology:Tubulin domain

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Tubulin
PDB 1ia0 EBI.jpg
kif1a head-microtubule complex structure in atp-form
Identifiers
SymbolTubulin
PfamPF00091
Pfam clanCL0442
InterProIPR003008
PROSITEPDOC00201
SCOP21tub / SCOPe / SUPFAM
Tubulin
PDB 1ia0 EBI.jpg
kif1a head-microtubule complex structure in atp-form
Identifiers
SymbolTubulin
PfamPF00091
Pfam clanCL0442
InterProIPR003008
PROSITEPDOC00201
SCOP21tub / SCOPe / SUPFAM

Tubulin/FtsZ family, GTPase domain is an evolutionary conserved protein domain.

This domain is found in all tubulin chains,[1] as well as the bacterial FtsZ family of proteins.[2] These proteins are involved in polymer formation. Tubulin is the major component of microtubules, while FtsZ is the polymer-forming protein of bacterial cell division, it is part of a ring in the middle of the dividing cell that is required for constriction of cell membrane and cell envelope to yield two daughter cells. FtsZ and tubulin are GTPases,[3] this entry is the GTPase domain. FtsZ can polymerise into tubes, sheets, and rings in vitro and is ubiquitous in bacteria and archaea.

References

  1. "Structure of the alpha beta tubulin dimer by electron crystallography". Nature 391 (6663): 199–203. January 1998. doi:10.1038/34465. PMID 9428769. 
  2. "Crystal structure of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ". Nature 391 (6663): 203–6. January 1998. doi:10.1038/34472. PMID 9428770. 
  3. "Tubulin and FtsZ form a distinct family of GTPases". Nat. Struct. Biol. 5 (6): 451–8. June 1998. doi:10.1038/nsb0698-451. PMID 9628483. 
This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro: IPR003008