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S C Andrews1, J M Smith, S J Yewdall, J R Guest, P M Harrison.
Abstract
Iron-storage proteins can be divided into two classes; the bacterioferritins and ferritins. In spite of many apparent structural and functional analogies, no significant amino acid sequence similarity has been detected previously. This report now reveals a distant evolutionary relationship between bacterioferritins and ferritins derived by 'Profile Analysis'. Optimum alignment of bacterioferritin and ferritin sequences suggests that key residues of the ferroxidase centres of ferritins are conserved in bacterioferritins.Mesh:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1959654 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)81177-a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124