Summary

Thioesterase domain

Peptide synthetases are involved in the non-ribosomal synthesis of peptide antibiotics. Next to the operons encoding these enzymes, in almost all cases, are genes that encode proteins that have similarity to the type II fatty acid thioesterases of vertebrates. There are also modules within the peptide synthetases that also share this similarity. With respect to antibiotic production, thioesterases are required for the addition of the last amino acid to the peptide antibiotic, thereby forming a cyclic antibiotic. Thioesterases (non-integrated) have molecular masses of 25-29 kDa.

Literature references

Schneider A, Marahiel MA; , Arch Microbiol 1998;169:404-410.: Genetic evidence for a role of thioesterase domains, integrated in or associated with peptide synthetases, in non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis. PUBMED:9560421

InterPro entry IPR001031

Thioesterase domains often occur integrated in or associated with peptide synthetases which are involved in the non-ribosomal synthesis of peptide antibiotics PUBMED:9560421. Thioesterases are required for the addition of the last amino acid to the peptide antibiotic, thereby forming a cyclic antibiotic. Next to the operons encoding these enzymes, in almost all cases, are genes that encode proteins that have similarity to the type II fatty acid thioesterases of vertebrates.

Clan

This family is a member of clan AB_hydrolase (CL0028), which contains the following 58 members:

Abhydrolase_1 Abhydrolase_2 Abhydrolase_3 Abhydrolase_4 Acyl_transf_2 Arb2 AXE1 BAAT_C Chlorophyllase COesterase Cutinase DLH DUF1023 DUF1057 DUF1100 DUF1234 DUF1350 DUF1400 DUF1749 DUF2048 DUF2305 DUF2424 DUF2920 DUF2974 DUF3141 DUF3530 DUF452 DUF676 DUF726 DUF818 DUF829 DUF900 DUF915 Esterase Esterase_phd FSH1 Hydrolase_4 LACT LIP Lipase Lipase_2 Lipase_3 Ndr PAF-AH_p_II Palm_thioest PE-PPE Peptidase_S10 Peptidase_S15 Peptidase_S28 Peptidase_S37 Peptidase_S9 PGAP1 PHB_depo_C PhoPQ_related Tannase Thioesterase UPF0227 VirJ

Gene Ontology

Molecular function	hydrolase activity, acting on ester bonds (GO:0016788)
Biological process	biosynthetic process (GO:0009058)

External database links

PANDIT:	PF00975
SCOP:	1jmk
SYSTERS:	Thioesterase

Domain organisation

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Alignments

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Alignment:	Seed (38) Full (2639) NCBI (3893) Metagenomics (692)
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Alignment:	Seed (38) Full (2639)
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The main seed and full alignments are generated using sequences from the UniProt sequence database. However, we also generate alignments using sequences from the NCBI sequence database and the "metaseq" metagenomics dataset.

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Pfam alignments:	Seed (38) Full (2639) NCBI (3893) Metagenomics (692)
Full length sequences	Full-sequences (2639)

External links

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Trees

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Curation and family details

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Curation

Seed source:

Pfam-B_180 (release 3.0)

Previous IDs:

none

Type:

Family

Author:

Finn RD, Bateman A

Number in seed:

38

Number in full:

2639

Average length of the domain:

218.60 aa

Average identity of full alignment:

18 %

Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:

14.42 %

HMM information

HMM build commands:

build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED

search method: hmmsearch -Z 9421015 -E 1000 HMM pfamseq

Model details:

Parameter	Sequence	Domain
Gathering cut-off	26.4	26.4
Trusted cut-off	26.4	26.4
Noise cut-off	26.3	26.3

Model length:

229

Family (HMM) version:

13

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Species distribution

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Interactive tree

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Thioesterase

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 sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Thioesterase domain has been found.

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Family: Thioesterase (PF00975)

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