Protein Family Models

HflX GTPase family protein similar to GTPase HflX, which is a GTP-binding protein with a GTP hydrolysis activity that is stimulated by binding to the 50S ribosome subunit, and it may play a role during protein synthesis or ribosome biogenesis

Date:

2024-04-29

This protein family is one of a number of homologous small, well-conserved GTP-binding proteins with pleiotropic effects. Bacterial members are designated HflX, following the naming convention in Escherichia coli where HflX is encoded immediately downstream of the RNA chaperone Hfq, and immediately upstream of HflKC, a membrane-associated protease pair with an important housekeeping function. Over large numbers of other bacterial genomes, the pairing with hfq is more significant than with hflK and hlfC. The gene from Homo sapiens in this family has been named PGPL (pseudoautosomal GTP-binding protein-like).

Gene:

hflX

Date:

2024-07-08

Proteins with a small GTP-binding domain recognized by this model include Ras, RhoA, Rab11, translation elongation factor G, translation initiation factor IF-2, tetratcycline resistance protein TetM, CDC42, Era, ADP-ribosylation factors, tdhF, and many others. In some proteins the domain occurs more than once. This model recognizes a large number of small GTP-binding proteins and related domains in larger proteins. Note that the alpha chains of heterotrimeric G proteins are larger proteins in which the NKXD motif is separated from the GxxxxGK[ST] motif (P-loop) by a long insert and are not easily detected by this model.

Date:

2022-03-28