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Clan: Thiolase (CL0046)

Summary

Thiolase-like Superfamily Add an annotation

Thiolases are ubiquitous and form a large superfamily. Thiolases can function either degradatively, in the beta-oxidation pathway of fatty acids, or biosynthetically. Biosynthetic thiolases catalyse the formation of acetoacetyl-CoA from two molecules of acetyl-CoA . This is one of the fundamental categories of carbon skeletal assembly patterns in biological systems and is the first step in a wide range of biosynthetic pathways [1]. Thiolase are usually dimeric or tetrameric enzymes. Within each monomer there are two similar domains related by pseudo dyad. The N-terminal of these two domains contains a large insertion of about 100 amino acids.

This clan contains 14 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 277454. The clan was built by RD Finn.

Literature references

  1. Modis Y, Wierenga RK; , Structure Fold Des 1999;7:1279-1290.: A biosynthetic thiolase in complex with a reaction intermediate: the crystal structure provides new insights into the catalytic mechanism. PUBMED:10545327 EPMC:10545327

Members

This clan contains the following 14 member families:

ACP_syn_III ACP_syn_III_C Chal_sti_synt_C Chal_sti_synt_N FAE1_CUT1_RppA HMG_CoA_synt_C HMG_CoA_synt_N KAsynt_C_assoc ketoacyl-synt Ketoacyl-synt_2 Ketoacyl-synt_C SpoVAD Thiolase_C Thiolase_N

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Domain organisation

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Alignments

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Pfam family Num. domains Alignment
ketoacyl-synt (PF00109) 55189 (19.9%) View
Ketoacyl-synt_C (PF02801) 52050 (18.8%) View
Thiolase_N (PF00108) 44259 (16.0%) View
Thiolase_C (PF02803) 42413 (15.3%) View
KAsynt_C_assoc (PF16197) 23783 (8.6%) View
ACP_syn_III_C (PF08541) 19586 (7.1%) View
ACP_syn_III (PF08545) 14759 (5.3%) View
Chal_sti_synt_N (PF00195) 5433 (2.0%) View
Chal_sti_synt_C (PF02797) 5416 (2.0%) View
FAE1_CUT1_RppA (PF08392) 4847 (1.7%) View
HMG_CoA_synt_C (PF08540) 3957 (1.4%) View
HMG_CoA_synt_N (PF01154) 3405 (1.2%) View
SpoVAD (PF07451) 1372 (0.5%) View
Ketoacyl-synt_2 (PF13723) 985 (0.4%) View
Total: 14 Total: 277454 Clan alignment
 

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Structures

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