CPLM 1.0 - Compendium of Protein Lysine Modification
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CPLM ID CPLM-007486
UniProt Accession
Genbank Protein ID
 M86723 
Genbank Nucleotide ID
Protein Name
 Tubulin alpha chain 
Protein Synonyms/Alias
 Alpha-tubulin 
Gene Name
  
Gene Synonyms/Alias
  
Created Date
 July 27, 2013 
Organism
 Tetrahymena thermophila 
NCBI Taxa ID
 5911 
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
40DGQMPSDKTIGGGDDacetylation[1]
Reference
 [1] MEC-17 is an alpha-tubulin acetyltransferase.
 Akella JS, Wloga D, Kim J, Starostina NG, Lyons-Abbott S, Morrissette NS, Dougan ST, Kipreos ET, Gaertig J.
 Nature. 2010 Sep 9;467(7312):218-22. [PMID: 20829795
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.  
Keyword
 Acetylation; Cytoplasm; Cytoskeleton; GTP-binding; Microtubule; Nucleotide-binding. 
Sequence Source
 UniProt (SWISSPROT/TrEMBL); GenBank; EMBL 
Protein Length
 449 AA 
Protein Sequence
MREVISIHVG QGGIQVGNAC WELFCLEHGI QPDGQMPSDK TIGGGDDAFN TFFSETGAGK 60
HVPRAVFLDL EPTVIDEVRT GTYRQLFHPE QLISGKEDAA NNFARGHYTI GKEIVDLCLD 120
RIRKLADNCT GLQGFLVFNS VGGGTGSGLG SLLLERLSVD YGKKSKLGFT IYPSPQVSTA 180
VVEPYNSILS THSLLEHTDV AVMLDNEAIY DICRRNLDIE RPTYTNLNRL IAQVISSLTA 240
SLRFDGALNV DITEFQTNLV PYPRIHFMLS SYAPIISAEK AYHEQLSVAE ITNSAFEPAN 300
MMAKCDPRHG KYMACSMMYR GDVVPKDVNA SIATIKTKRT IQFVDWCPTG FKVGINYQPP 360
TVVPGGDLAK VMRAVCMISN STAIAEVFSR LDHKFDLMYA KRAFVHWYVG EGMEEGEFSE 420
AREDLAALEK DYEEVGIETA EGEGEEEGY 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.