CPLM 1.0 - Compendium of Protein Lysine Modification
TagContent
CPLM ID CPLM-002666
UniProt Accession
Genbank Protein ID
Genbank Nucleotide ID
Protein Name
 Tubulin alpha chain 
Protein Synonyms/Alias
  
Gene Name
 tuba 
Gene Synonyms/Alias
 tuba1 
Created Date
 July 27, 2013 
Organism
 Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) 
NCBI Taxa ID
 8355 
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
40DGQMPSDKTIGGGDDacetylation[1]
Reference
 [1] The appearance of acetylated alpha-tubulin during early development and cellular differentiation in Xenopus.
 Chu DT, Klymkowsky MW.
 Dev Biol. 1989 Nov;136(1):104-17. [PMID: 2680681
Functional Description
 Tubulin is the major constituent of microtubules. It binds two moles of GTP, one at an exchangeable site on the beta chain and one at a non-exchangeable site on the alpha chain. 
Sequence Annotation
 NP_BIND 142 148 GTP (Potential).
 MOD_RES 40 40 N6-acetyllysine (By similarity).  
Keyword
 Acetylation; Cytoplasm; Cytoskeleton; GTP-binding; Microtubule; Nucleotide-binding. 
Sequence Source
 UniProt (SWISSPROT/TrEMBL); GenBank; EMBL 
Protein Length
 449 AA 
Protein Sequence
MRECISIHVG QAGVQIGNAC WELYCLEHGI QPDGQMPSDK TIGGGDDSFN TFFSETGAGK 60
HVPRAVFVDL EPTVIDEVRT GTYRQLFHPE QLITGKEDAA NNYARGHYTI GKEIIDLVLD 120
RIRKLADQCT GLQGFLVFHS FGGGTGSGFT SLLMERLSVD YGKKSKLEFA IYPAPQVSTA 180
VVEPYNSILT THTTLEHSDC AFMVDNEAIY DICRRNLDIE RPTYTNLNRL ISQIVSSITA 240
SLRFDGALNV DLTEFQTNLV PYPRIHFPLA TYAPVISAEK AYHEQLTVAD ITNACFEPAN 300
QMVKCDPRHG KYMACCLLYR GDVVPKDVNA AIATIKTKRS IQFVDWCPTG FKVGINYQPP 360
TVVPGGDLAK VQRAVCMLSN TTAIAEAWAR LDHKFDLMYA KRAFVHWYVG EGMEEGEFSE 420
AREDMAALEK DYEEVGADSA DAEDEGEEY 449 
Gene Ontology
 GO:0005737; C:cytoplasm; IEA:UniProtKB-KW.
 GO:0005874; C:microtubule; IEA:UniProtKB-KW.
 GO:0005525; F:GTP binding; IEA:UniProtKB-KW.
 GO:0003924; F:GTPase activity; IEA:InterPro.
 GO:0005200; F:structural constituent of cytoskeleton; IEA:InterPro.
 GO:0007017; P:microtubule-based process; IEA:InterPro.
 GO:0051258; P:protein polymerization; IEA:InterPro. 
Interpro
 IPR002452; Alpha_tubulin.
 IPR008280; Tub_FtsZ_C.
 IPR000217; Tubulin.
 IPR018316; Tubulin/FtsZ_2-layer-sand-dom.
 IPR023123; Tubulin_C.
 IPR017975; Tubulin_CS.
 IPR003008; Tubulin_FtsZ_GTPase. 
Pfam
 PF00091; Tubulin
 PF03953; Tubulin_C 
SMART
 SM00864; Tubulin
 SM00865; Tubulin_C 
PROSITE
 PS00227; TUBULIN 
PRINTS
 PR01162; ALPHATUBULIN.
 PR01161; TUBULIN.