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Ribosome inactivating proteins (RIP) superfamily
SCOP classification
Superfamily statistics
Functional annotation
| General category | Information |
| Detailed category | Translation |
Function annotation of SCOP domain superfamilies
InterPro annotation
| Cross references | IPR001574 SSF56371 Protein matches |
| Abstract | A number of bacterial and plant toxins act by inhibiting protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells. The toxins of the Shiga and ricin family inactivate 60S ribosomal subunits by an N-glycosidic cleavage which releases a specific adenine base from the sugar-phosphate backbone of 28S rRNA [ 3276522, 2714255, 1742358]. Members of the family include shiga and shiga-like toxins, and type I (e.g. trichosanthin and luffin) and type II (e.g. ricin, agglutinin and abrin) ribosome inactivating proteins (RIPs). All these toxins are structurally related. RIPs have been of considerable interest because of their potential use, conjugated with monoclonal antibodies, as immunotoxins to treat cancers. Further, trichosanthin has been shown to have potent activity against HIV-1-infected T cells and macrophages [ 8066085]. Elucidation of the structure-function relationships of RIPs has therefore become a major research effort. It is now known that RIPs are structurally related. A conserved glutamic residue has been implicated in the catalytic mechanism [ 3357883]; this lies near a conserved arginine, which also plays a role in catalysis [ 8411176]. |
InterPro database
PDBeMotif information about ligands, sequence and structure motifs
PDBeMotif resource
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Internal database links
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Browse genome assignments for this superfamily. The SUPERFAMILY hidden Markov model library has been used to carry
out SCOP domain assignments to all genomes at the superfamily level.
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Alignments of sequences to 23 models
in this superfamily are available by clicking on the 'Alignments' icon above. PDB sequences less than 40% identical
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Browse and view proteins in genomes which have
different domain combinations including a Ribosome inactivating proteins (RIP) domain.
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Examine the distribution of domain superfamilies, or families, across the major taxonomic kingdoms or genomes within a kingdom. This gives an immediate impression of how superfamilies, or families, are restricted to certain kingdoms of life.
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Explore domain occurrence network where nodes represent genomes and edges are domain architectures (shared between genomes) containing the superfamily of interest.
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There are 23 hidden Markov models representing the Ribosome inactivating proteins (RIP) superfamily. Information on how the models are built, and plots showing hydrophobicity, match emmission probabilities and insertion/deletion probabilities can be inspected.
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