SEQUENCE SIMILARITY BETWEEN OPIOID PEPTIDE PRECURSORS AND DNA-BINDING PROTEINS

被引:15
作者
BAKALKIN, GY [1 ]
PONOMARIEV, D [1 ]
SARKISYAN, RA [1 ]
TERENIUS, L [1 ]
机构
[1] NATL CARDIOL RES CTR,MOSCOW 121552,USSR
关键词
OPIOID PRECURSOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;
D O I
10.1016/0014-5793(91)80471-E
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The opioid peptide precursors, preprodynorphin and preproenkephalin show structure similarity with a transcription factor, hunchback and the putative helix-loop-helix DNA-binding proteins, lil-1, tal and twist. Segments with similarity contain the three enkephalin sequences in preprodynorphin and one in preproenkephalin which are present within heptapeptide repeats characteristic of an alpha-helical coiled-coil structure distinctive of an amphipathic helix-loop-helix DNA-binding motif. Hunchback and the opioid prohormones also have cystein-rich regions characteristic of zinc-finger domains in common.
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页码:175 / 177
页数:3
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