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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 38, Pages 36887-36896Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M305725200
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK58538, DK 36256] Funding Source: Medline
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The three iodothyronine selenodeiodinases catalyze the initiation and termination of thyroid hormone effects in vertebrates. Structural analyses of these proteins have been hindered by their integral membrane nature and the inefficient eukaryotic-specific pathway for selenoprotein synthesis. Hydrophobic cluster analysis used in combination with Position-specific Iterated BLAST reveals that their extramembrane portion belongs to the thioredoxin-fold superfamily for which experimental structure information exists. Moreover, a large deiodinase region imbedded in the thioredoxin fold shares strong similarities with the active site of iduronidase, a member of the clan GH-A-fold of glycoside hydrolases. This model can explain a number of results from previous mutagenesis analyses and permits new verifiable insights into the structural and functional properties of these enzymes.
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