CPLM 1.0 - Compendium of Protein Lysine Modification
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CPLM ID CPLM-002093
UniProt Accession
Genbank Protein ID
Genbank Nucleotide ID
Protein Name
 Tubulin alpha chain 
Protein Synonyms/Alias
  
Gene Name
  
Gene Synonyms/Alias
  
Created Date
 July 27, 2013 
Organism
 Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense 
NCBI Taxa ID
 31286 
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
40DGAMPSDKTIGVEDDacetylation[1]
Reference
 [1] Subpellicular and flagellar microtubules of Trypanosoma brucei are extensively glutamylated.
 Schneider A, Plessmann U, Weber K.
 J Cell Sci. 1997 Feb;110 ( Pt 4):431-7. [PMID: 9067595
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
 451 AA 
Protein Sequence
MREAICIHIG QAGCQVGNAC WELFCLEHGI QPDGAMPSDK TIGVEDDAFN TFFSETGAGK 60
HVPRAVFLDL EPTVVDEVRT GTYRQLFHPE QLISGKEDAA NNYARGHYTI GKEIVDLCLD 120
RIRKLADNCT GLQGFLVYHA VGGGTGSGLG ALLLERLSVD YGKKSKLGYT VYPSPQVSTA 180
VVEPYNSVLS THSLLEHTDV AAMLDNEAIY DLTRRNLDIE RPTYTNLNRL IGQVVSSLTA 240
SLRFDGALNV DLTEFQTNLV PYPRIHFVLT SYAPVISAEK AYHEQLSVSE ISNAVFEPAS 300
MMTKCDPRHG KYMACCLMYR GDVVPKDVNA AVATIKTKRT IQFVDWSPTG FKCGINYQPP 360
TVVPGGDLAK VQRAVCMIAN STAIAEVFAR IDHKFDLMYS KRAFVHWYVG EGMEEGEFSE 420
AREDLAALEK DYEEVGAESA DMDGEEDVEE Y 451 
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.