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. 1995 Jan;4(1):126–129. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560040115

Identification of a eukaryotic-like protein kinase gene in Archaebacteria.

R F Smith 1, K Y King 1
PMCID: PMC2142968  PMID: 7773169

Abstract

Primary sequence patterns based on known conserved sites in eukaryotic protein kinases were used to search for eukaryotic-like protein kinase sequences in a six-frame translation of the bacterial subsection of GenBank. This search identified a previously unrecognized eukaryotic-like protein kinase gene in three related methanogenic archaebacteria, Methanococcus vannielii, M. voltae, and M. thermolithotrophicus. The proposed coding sequences are located in orthologous open reading frames (ORFs): ORF547, ORF294, and ORF114, respectively. The C-terminus of the ORFs contains 9 of the 11 subdomains characteristically conserved within the eukaryotic protein kinase catalytic domain. The N-terminus of the ORFs is similar to a putative glycoprotease in Pasteurella haemolytica and its homologue in Escherichia coli, the orfX gene. This is the first report of a eukaryotic-like protein kinase sequence observed in Archaebacteria.

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