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Information about Maltose-binding periplasmic protein

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Last updated: 14-03-2017.

Main Information about protein

Unfortunately, it was not possible to find protein's Uniprot record using GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ banks (Fig. 1), so its PDB ID (3JYR) was used. It is important to note that detected record (P19576) doesn't belong to Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Anatum str. USDA-ARS-USMARC-1735, but it belongs to related species Salmonella typhimurium (strain LT2 / SGSC1412 / ATCC 700720). According to "DE" field in record, protein recommended name is Maltose-binding periplasmic protein. Information about protein IDs in different databases is contained in Table 1. Some facts about protein are located in Table 2. Maltose-binding periplasmic protein (MBP) is involved in maltose membrane transport system. It works like initial receptor for the active transport of maltooligosaccharides. Also it is a part of chemotaxis toward maltooligosaccharides. According to (DR, PDB) field, PDB site itself and KW field, protein is fully sequenced and its structure received using X-ray methods with the resolution of 1.75 A. MBP consists of the only one chain. Protein sequence is provided in Insertion. 1.

Figure 1. Problems occurred during protein's Uniprot record search.

Database ID
Uniprot (AC) P19576
Uniprot (ID) MALE_SALTY
PDB 3JYR
RefSeq Protein WP_000695417.1

Table 1. Protein IDs in different databases[0].

Field in Uniprot record Refinement Value
DE, AltName Alternative protein names MBP, MMBP, Maltodextrin-binding protein
DE, RecName Recommended protein name Maltose-binding periplasmic protein
PE Protein evidence 1: Evidence at protein level
FT, SIGNAL Signal sequence aminoacids 1...26
FT, CHAIN Chains coordinates 27...396
FT Amount of helices 18
FT Amount of strands 15
SQ Length 396 AA
SQ Molecular weight 43181

Table 2. Some information about Maltose-binding periplasmic protein from Uniprot record[0].

     MKIKTGVGIL ALSALTTMMI SAPALAKIEE GKLVIWINGD KGYNGLAEVG KKFEQDTGIK
     VTVEHPDKLE EKFPQVAATG DGPDIIFWAH DRFGGYAQSG LLAEVTPDKA FQDKLYPFTW
     DAVRYNGKLI AYPIAVEALS LIYNKDLVPN PPKTWEEIPA LDKELKVKGK SAIMFNLQEP
     YFTWPLIAAD GGYAFKFENG KYDVKDVGVD NAGAKAGLTF LIDMIKNKNM SADTDYSIAE
     AAFNKGETAM TINGPWAWSN IDKSKVNYGV TLLPTFKGKP SKPFVGVLSA GINAASPNKE
     LAKEFLENYL LTDQGLEAVN KDKPLGAVAL KSFQEQLAKD PRIAATMDNA QKGEIMPNIP
     QMSAFWYAVR TAVINAASGR QTVDAALKDA QSRITK

Insertion 1. MBP sequence.

UniRef clusters

UniRef100: cluster ID is UniRef100_P19576, it contains 9 proteins. Only one of them is reviewed (Swiss-Prot). All nine proteins belong to Salmonella enterica. This fact does not contradict to systematics data and even proves them. Seed protein ID is A0A0F6BA72 and it is 475 AA long.

UniRef90: cluster ID is UniRef90_P19576, it contains 16 proteins. There is only one reviewed protein, too. And again, all proteins belong to Salmonella enterica. It shows that structure of such important protein as MBP shouldn't change widely. Seed protein ID is Q57GZ8 and it is 475 AA long.

UniRef50: cluster ID is UniRef50_P19576, it contains 608 proteins. 4 of them are reviewed. This cluster contains proteins from a large number of bacteria from different systematic groups. This fact emphasises the importance of fundamental role MBP playing in bacterial cell. Maltooligosaccharides are important nutritive substrate so species that are able to digest them receive an advantage over ones who's unable. Seed protein ID is D2TSM5 and it is 478 AA long.

Uniprot search queries

Basic information about search queries is presented in Table 3.

Query 'name:"maltose binding periplasmic protein" ' (Table 3, line 1): proteins from such popular organisms were found: Escherichia coli (strain K12), Enterobacter aerogenes, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Photorhabdus luminescens, Salmonella typhimurium (strain LT2 / SGSC1412 / ATCC 700720). 432 of all proteins were found in bacteria, 8 in Archaea and information about 3 proteins was obtained from metagenetic data (Fig. 2).

Figure 2. Organisms that have Maltose binding periplasmic protein.

Query 'lysozyme' (Table 3, line 4): lysozyme is a protein damaging bacterial cell walls by catalysing the hydrolysis of peptidoglycan. It presented in all major groups of animals (Fig. 3)[1].

Figure 3. Organisms that have lysozyme.

Query 'name:inhibitor name:trypsin' and 'name:trypsin' (Table 3, line 7&8): it is remarkable that trypsin inhibitors are better annotated than trypsin (7.06% against 2.34%). I suggest it could be connected with higher practical use potential of trypsin inhibitors.

Search query Total amount of proteins Reviewed proteins Notes
name:"maltose binding periplasmic protein" 435 6 Query by recommended name
name:"maltose binding periplasmic protein" organism:"salmonella typhimurium strain lt2 sgsc1412 atcc 700720" 1 1 Query by recommended name and organism
name:"maltose binding periplasmic protein" taxonomy:"Enterobacteriaceae [543]" 167 5 Query by recommended name and organism family
name:lysozyme 17921 229 Lysozyme in all groups of animals
name:lysozyme taxonomy:arthropoda 583 17 Lysozyme in Arthropoda
name:lysozyme taxonomy:viridiplantae 17 3 Lysozyme in Viridiplantae
name:trypsin 13241 310 Trypsin in all groups of animals
name:inhibitor name:trypsin 2962 209 Trypsin inhibitors in all groups of animals

Table 3. Uniprot queries.

MBP in RefSeq Protein databases

According to Table 1, MBP has WP_000695417.1 identifier in RefSeq Protein database. This record is more laconic than Uniprot one, but contains less information overall. For example, there is no information about helices, strands and turns. Also there is no info about available publications connected with the protein in question, no other databases references. One more contrast: Uniprot record has information about protein from specific organism whereas RefSeq record represents a single, non-redundant, protein sequence which may be annotated on many different RefSeq genomes from the same, or different, species.[2]

History of MBP changes

The whole history of MBP changes is presented in Fig. 4. As we can observe, the first record was made on 1991-02-01 and it is regularly updated (121 times) until now (last change was made on 2017-02-15). Based on this, it can be concluded that MBP is well studied protein.

Figure 4. History of MBP changes.

Representation of modified residues in Uniprot

Information about representation of modified residues in Uniprot is assembled in Table 4. During the creation of the table, Uniprot help was used [3].

Modification Example from Uniprot record
Phosphorylation
FT   MOD_RES      27     27       Phosphothreonine; by PLK1.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:18174154,
FT                                ECO:0000269|PubMed:18418051}.
Carboxyl methylation
FT   MOD_RES     309    309       Leucine methyl ester.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:8206937}.
Nitrogen methylation
FT   MOD_RES       2      2       N-methylalanine.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:786732}.
Histidine methylation
FT   MOD_RES     107    107       Pros-methylhistidine.
FT                                {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:P50116}.
Lysine methylation
FT   MOD_RES      36     36       N6-methyllysine.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:3467365}.
Arginine methylation
FT   MOD_RES     320    320       Dimethylated arginine; in A2780 ovarian
FT                                carcinoma cell line. {ECO:0000269|Ref.7}.
Acetylation
FT   MOD_RES       2      2       N-acetylserine.
FT                                {ECO:0000244|PubMed:22814378,
Terminal amidation
FT   MOD_RES       4      4       Phenylalanine amide.
Glutamate amidation
FT   MOD_RES     349    349       Glutamic acid 1-amide.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:8101868}.
Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid
FT   MOD_RES      36     36       Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid.
Isomerization
FT   MOD_RES       2      2       D-phenylalanine.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:2597281}.
Hydroxylation
FT   MOD_RES      39     39       4-hydroxyproline.
FT                                {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:P02745}.
Sulfation
FT   MOD_RES      11     11       Sulfotyrosine.
FT                                {ECO:0000269|PubMed:5970899}.

Table 4. Residues modifications.

References

[0] Maltose-binding periplasmic protein Uniprot record.
[1] Lysozyme, Wikipedia.
[2] MBP (WP_000695417.1), RefSeq Protein.
[3] Uniprot help, modified residue.

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