Paper Citing NAMD - Abstract
Gupta, Kushol; Selinsky, Barry S.
Bacterial and algal orthologs of prostaglandin H-2 synthase: novel insights into the evolution of an integral membrane protein
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES, 1848:83-94, JAN 2015
Prostaglandin H-2 synthase (PGHS; EC 1.14.99.1), a bi-functional heme enzyme that contains cyclooxygenase and peroxidase activities, plays a central role in the inflammatory response, pain, and blood clotting in higher eukaryotes. In this review, we discuss the progenitors of the mammalian enzyme by using modern bioinformatics and homology modeling to draw comparisons between this well-studied system and its orthologs from algae and bacterial sources. A clade of bacterial and algal orthologs is described that have salient structural features distinct from eukaryotic counterparts, including the lack of a dimerization and EGF-like domains, the absence of gene duplicates, and minimal membrane-binding domains. The functional implications of shared and variant features are discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
