NEAT: a domain duplicated in genes near the components of a putative Fe3+siderophore transporter from Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria
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BACKGROUND: Iron uptake from the host is essential for bacteria that infect animals. To find potential targets for drugs active against pathogenic bacteria, we have searched all completely sequenced genomes of pathogenic bacteria for genes relevant for iron transport. RESULTS: We identified a protein domain that appears in variable copy number in bacterial genes that are usually in the vicinity of a putative Fe3+ siderophore transporter. Accordingly, we have denoted this domain NEAT for 'near transporter'. Most of the bacterial species containing this domain are pathogenic. Sequence features indicate that the domain is anchored to the extracellular side of the membrane. The domain seems to be under high selective pressure for rapid independent duplications that are typical of sequences involved in signaling and binding. CONCLUSIONS: The NEAT domain might be functionally related to iron transport. The taxonomic specificity of this domain and its predicted extracellular position could make it an interesting target for designing new drugs against some highly pathogenic bacteria.
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NEAT domains are conserved 125-amino-acid stretches found in proteins that neighbor putative iron transporters.
“NEAT domains are conserved stretches of 125 amino acids found within proteins that neighbor putative iron transporters (2).”
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- Andrade, M. A., Ciccarelli, F. D., Perez-Iratxeta, C., & Bork, P.
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- Max Delbrück Center (DE)
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- Genome Biology
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- 2002-08-15
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- 9
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- RESEARCH0047-RESEARCH0047
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- 1465-6906 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-760X
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Keywords
- NEAT domain, iron transport, siderophore transporters, gene duplication, therapeutic target, host-pathogen interaction, selection pressure, bacterial genomes
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Bacterial Proteins, Binding Sites, Carrier Proteins, Ferric Compounds, Gram-Positive Bacteria, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Sequence Alignment, Genome, Bacterial, Siderophores, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Gene Duplication
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