Putative catalytic domain of uncharacterized hypothetical proteins closely related to Nuc, , an endonuclease from Salmonella typhimurium
Putative catalytic domain of uncharacterized hypothetical proteins, which show high sequence homology to the endonuclease from Salmonella typhimurium and vertebrate phospholipase D6. Nuc and PLD6 belong to the phospholipase D (PLD) superfamily. They contain a short conserved sequence motif, the HKD motif (H-x-K-x(4)-D, where x represents any amino acid residue), which characterizes the PLD superfamily and is essential for catalysis. Nuc and PLD6 utilize a two-step mechanism to cleave phosphodiester bonds: Upon substrate binding, the bond is first attacked by a histidine residue from one HKD motif to form a covalent phosphohistidine intermediate, which is then hydrolyzed by water with the aid of a second histidine residue from the other HKD motif in the opposite subunit. However, proteins in this subfamily have two HKD motifs in a single polypeptide chain.
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