Methods 2ece

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

X-ray structure of hypothetical selenium-binding protein from Sulfolobus tokodaii, ST0059 ( http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/2ece ) and the JenaLib Jmol viewer showing SBP 1 secondary structure [1]

Query name: SBP 1 ( 2ECE ) Structure prediction by SABLE

Data source: Derived from the SABLE server prediction

STRUCTURAL COMPARISONS

Surface Structure of SBP: Note the few clefts compared to the DNA isomerase shown below.

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Rat fatty acid binding protein 2IFB, a was found to have 92.5% homology to 14 KDa Selenium binding protein purified from rat liver using column chromatography and SDS-Gel techniques.([ref 3])

Explore SBP features and structural summary here [3].The domains of SBP are shown here [4] Notice how the domains are similar to the putative Isomerase domains of E.coli below.

1RI6 DOMAINS

2ECE DOMAINS

(Complex Of Bovine Odorant Binding Protein (Obp) With A Selenium Containing Odorant)"Image:Ligand of bovine.png" [[5]]

SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

Selenium binding protein 1 (SELENBP1) SELECTED PROTEIN SIMILARITIES Comparison of sequences in UniGene with selected protein reference sequences. The alignments can suggest function of a gene. [6]