Summary
Phosphoglycerate mutase-like Superfamily
Phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) enzymes catalyse the isomerisation of phosphoglycerate substrates, a process essential for the metabolism of glucose and/or 2,3-phosphoglycerate in nearly all organisms. This clan brings together all such enzymes, except the 2,3-diphosphoglyceric acid independent PGMs, which are unrelated [1]. The catalysis of all of the PGMs in this clan proceeds via a phosphohistidine-enzyme intermediate, which re-orientates the substrate in the catalysis process. The more divergent fructose-2,6-biphosphatase and acid phosphatases are also included, due to their structural and functional similarity. All of the above enzymes phosphorylate a histidine residue during their catalytic activity which requires two main reactions, phosphatase and phosphotransferase. Some of these enzymes specialise in just one reaction, the phosphatase reaction, but all have the ability to perform both of them albeit at different rates. All of these enzymes are evolutionarily, adopting a Rossmann-like fold at the core of the enzyme, which has become elaborated over time. The differences in this elaboration adjacent to the active site presumably resulted in the catalytic differences leading to different enzymes [1].
This clan contains 2 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 9538.
Literature references
- Jedrzejas MJ; , Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2000;73:263-287.: Structure, function, and evolution of phosphoglycerate mutases: comparison with fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, acid phosphatase, and alkaline phosphatase. 10958932
Members
This clan contains the following 2 member families:
Acid_phosphat_A PGAMExternal database links
| CATH: | 3.40.50.1240 |
| SCOP: | 53254 |
Domain organisation
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Alignments
The table below shows the number of occurrences of each domain throughout the sequence database. More...
| Pfam family | Num. domains | Alignment |
|---|---|---|
| PGAM (PF00300) | 8054 (84.4%) | View |
| Acid_phosphat_A (PF00328) | 1484 (15.6%) | View |
| Total: 2 | Total: 9538 | Clan alignment |
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Family relationships
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Species distribution
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Interactions
There are 3 interactions for this clan. More...
| Interacting families | |
|---|---|
| A | B |
| Acid_phosphat_A | Acid_phosphat_A |
| PGAM | PGAM |
| 6PF2K | |
Structures
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt three-dimensional structures. The table below shows the mapping between the Pfam families in this clan, the corresponding UniProt entries, and the region of the three-dimensional structures that are available for that sequence.
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