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Mja PEP Intein
Intein Name Mja PEP
Prototype Allele Mja PEP
Extein Name Phosphoenolpyruvate synthase
Intein Class Experimental
Organism Name Methanococcus jannaschii (Methanocaldococcus jannaschii DSM 2661)
Organism Description Thermophile, DSM 2661, taxon:2190
Domain of Life Archaea
Endonuclease Activity
Endo Motif DOD
Location in Extein T410
Insert Site Comments PEPsyn-a, Prosite signature PS00370
Intein Size (aa) 412
Intein N-terminal AIVTDEGGLT/C
Intein C-terminal FN/CHAAIVSREL
Accession No. Q57962 in NCBI/protein, MJ0542
Intein aa Sequence >gi|2499461|sp|Q57962| Mja PEP intein (including -1 and +1 extein residues)
TCIEGDAKILTDRGFLKMKEVYKLVKNGEKLKVLGLNAETLKTEWKEIIDAQKREARRYEIGVYRKNKNT
KDTIKITPDHKFPVFVNGELSKVQLCDIIDNNLSVLSIDYIPMIEEKYESLAEVMYLGGAVLSDGHIVRR
NGKPIRVRFTQKDTEEKKDFIEKVKGDVKLIGGNFIEISNRNNVIEYQTSRKIPSEILGFIEVNINTIPL
YATKDEIADLIAGFVDGDGCLSGKRRVEIYQNSSHIKKIEGLIVGLYRLGIIPRLRYKRSSTATIYFNNN
LETILQRTRRIKLDKLKEFKKPVEDKKLIDISQILPELKEFDYKGYLYKTYKEKLFIGINKLEEYLSKID
KDGIERIKQKIKLLKESDIYSIRIKKVGEDYGEVYNITVKAENEFNHNYVVWTKHYTPIVVFNC
Block A CIEGDAKILTDRG 13
Block B KDTIKITPDHKFPV 83
Block C LGGAVLSDG 134
Block D SRKIPSEI 196
Block E LIAGFVDGDG 228
Block H SSHIKKIEGLIVGLYRLGI 260
Block F EVYNITV/NEFNHNYV 399
Block G TPIVVFNC 413
Initially Contributed by Fran Perler
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Independently Found By
Comments Intein penultimate aa is F, not H (Perler).
Date Submitted
References Bult 1996
Dalgaard 1997
Chen 2000

Last database update: 11/05/10

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