Thioredoxin fold
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The thioredoxin fold is a protein fold common to enzymes that catalyze disulfide bond formation and isomerization. The fold is named for the canonical example thioredoxin and is found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins. It is an example of an alpha/beta protein fold that has oxidoreductase activity. The fold's spatial topology consists of a four-stranded beta sheet sandwiched between two alpha helices.
Sequence conservation
Despite sequence variability in many regions of the fold, thioredoxin proteins share a common active site sequence with two reactive cysteine residues: Cys-X-Y-Cys, where X and Y are often but not necessarly hydrophobic amino acids. The reduced form of the protein contains two free thiol groups at the cysteine residues, whereas the oxidized form contains a disulfide bond between them.
Disulfide bond formation
Different thioredoxin fold-containing proteins vary greatly in their reactivity and in the pKa of their free thiols, which derives from the ability of the overall protein structure to stabilize the activated thiolate. Although the structure is fairly consistent among proteins containing the thioredoxin fold, the pKa is extremely sensitive to small variations in structure, especially in the placement of protein backbone atoms near the first cysteine.
External links
References
- Creighton TE. (2000). Protein folding coupled to disulphide-bond formation. In Mechanisms of Protein Folding 2nd ed. Editor RH Pain. Oxford University Press.
Protein tertiary structure | |
|---|---|
| General | Structural domain | Protein folding | Structure determination methods |
| All-α folds: | Helix bundle | Globin fold | Homeodomain fold | Alpha solenoid |
| All-β folds: | Immunoglobulin fold | Beta barrel | Beta-propeller |
| α/β folds: | TIM barrel | Leucine-rich repeat | Flavodoxin fold | Rossmann fold | Thioredoxin fold | Trefoil knot fold |
| α+β folds: | DNA clamp | Ferredoxin fold | Ribonuclease A | SH2-like fold |
| Irregular folds: | Conotoxin |
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