CPLM 1.0 - Compendium of Protein Lysine Modification
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CPLM ID CPLM-004241
UniProt Accession
Genbank Protein ID
 X15979 
Genbank Nucleotide ID
Protein Name
 Tubulin alpha chain 
Protein Synonyms/Alias
  
Gene Name
  
Gene Synonyms/Alias
  
Created Date
 July 27, 2013 
Organism
 Plasmodium falciparum (isolate K1 / Thailand) 
NCBI Taxa ID
 5839 
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
40DGQMPSDKASRANDDacetylation[1]
Reference
 [1] Microtubular organization visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy during erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium falciparum and investigation of post-translational modifications of parasite tubulin.
 Read M, Sherwin T, Holloway SP, Gull K, Hyde JE.
 Parasitology. 1993 Apr;106 ( Pt 3):223-32. [PMID: 8488059
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 QAGIQVGNAC WELFCLEHGI QPDGQMPSDK ASRANDDAFN TFFSETGAGK 60
HVPRCVFVDL EPTVVDEVRT GTYRQLFHPE QLISGKEDAA NNFARGHYTI GKEVIDVCLD 120
RIRKLADNCT GLQGFLMFSA VGGGTGSGFG CLMLERLSVD YGKKSKLNFC CWPSPQVSTA 180
VVEPYNSVLS THSLLEHTDV AIMLDNEAIY DICRRNLDIE RPTYTNLNRL IAQVISSLTA 240
SLRFDGALNV DVTEFQTNLV PYPRIHFMLS SYAPVVSAEK AYHEQLSVSE ITNSAFEPAN 300
MMAKCDPRHG KYMACCLMYR GDVVPKDVNA AVATIKTKRT IQFVDWCPTG FKCGINYQPP 360
TVVPGGDLAK VMRAVCMISN STAIAEVFSR MDQKFDLMYA KRAFVHWYVG EGMEEGEFSE 420
AREDLAALEK DYEEVGIESN EAEGEDEGYE ADY 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.