CPLM 1.0 - Compendium of Protein Lysine Modification
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CPLM ID CPLM-003853
UniProt Accession
Genbank Protein ID
 M20024 
Genbank Nucleotide ID
Protein Name
 Tubulin alpha chain 
Protein Synonyms/Alias
 Alpha-tubulin 
Gene Name
  
Gene Synonyms/Alias
  
Created Date
 July 27, 2013 
Organism
 Toxoplasma gondii 
NCBI Taxa ID
 5811 
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
40DGQMPSDKTIGGGDDacetylation[1]
Reference
 [1] Post-translational modifications to Toxoplasma gondii alpha- and beta-tubulins include novel C-terminal methylation.
 Xiao H, El Bissati K, Verdier-Pinard P, Burd B, Zhang H, Kim K, Fiser A, Angeletti RH, Weiss LM.
 J Proteome Res. 2010 Jan;9(1):359-72. [PMID: 19886702
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
 453 AA 
Protein Sequence
MREVISIHVG QAGIQIGNAC WELFCLEHGI QPDGQMPSDK TIGGGDDAFN TFFSETGAGK 60
HVPRCVFLDL EPTVVDEVRT GTYRHLFHPE QLISGKEDAA NNFARGHYTI GKEIVDLSLD 120
RIRKLADNCT GLQGFLMFNA VGGGTGSGLG CLLLERLSVD YGKKSKLNFC SWPSPQVSTA 180
VVEPYNSVLS THSLLEHTDV AVMLDNEAIY DICRRNLDIE RPTYTNLNRL IAQVISSLTA 240
SLRFDGALNV DVTEFQTNLV PYPRIHFMLS SYAPIISAEK AYHEQLSVAE ITNSAFEPAS 300
MMAKCDPRHG KYMACCLMYR GDVVPKDVNA AVATIKTKRT IQFVDWCPTG FKCGINYQPP 360
TVVPGGDLAK VMRAVCMISN STAIAEVFSR MDHKFDLMYA KRAFVHWYVG EGMEEGEFSE 420
AREDLAALEK DYEEVGIETA EGEGEEEGYG DEY 453 
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.