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ReviewJournal of molecular biology2014

Exploring the biological and chemical complexity of the ligases.

Gemma L Holliday, Syed Asad Rahman, Nicholas Furnham, Janet M Thornton

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Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Exploring the chemistry and evolution of the isomerases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
    Article
  5. Using modern tools to probe the structure-function relationship of fatty acid synthases.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2015
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gemma L HollidayEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. Electronic address: gemma.holliday@ucsf.edu.
Syed Asad RahmanEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Nicholas FurnhamEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Janet M ThorntonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
European Bioinformatics Institute · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 081989/Z/07/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using a novel method to map and cluster chemical reactions, we have re-examined the chemistry of the ligases [Enzyme Commission (EC) Class 6] and their associated protein families in detail. The type of bond formed by the ligase can be automatically extracted from the equation of the reaction, replicating the EC subclass division. However, this subclass division hides considerable complexities, especially for the C-N forming ligases, which fall into at least three distinct types. The lower levels of the EC classification for ligases are somewhat arbitrary in their definition and add little to understanding their chemistry or evolution. By comparing the multi-domain architecture of the enzymes and using sequence similarity networks, we examined the links between overall reaction and evolution of the ligases. These show that, whilst many enzymes that perform the same overall chemistry group together, both convergent (similar function, different ancestral lineage) and divergent (different function, common ancestor) evolution of function are observed. However, a common theme is that a single conserved domain (often the nucleoside triphosphate binding domain) is combined with ancillary domains that provide the variation in substrate binding and function.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsCatalysisCluster AnalysisEvolution, MolecularHumansLigasesProtein Structure, TertiaryStructure-Activity RelationshipLigasesenzyme evolutionenzyme functionligaseoverall reaction similarity

Identifiers

PMID24657765
PMCPMC4018984
OpenAlexW1977873848

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