>TIGR00501 met_pdase_II methionine aminopeptidase, type II; InterPro: IPR002468 Metalloproteases are the most diverse of the four main types of protease, with more than 50 families identified to date. In these enzymes, a divalent cation, usually zinc, activates the water molecule. The metal ion is held in place by amino acid ligands, usually three in number. The known metal ligands are His, Glu, Asp or Lys and at least one other residue is required for catalysis, which may play an electrophillic role. Of the known metalloproteases, around half contain an HEXXH motif, which has been shown in crystallographic studies to form part of the metal-binding site . The HEXXH motif is relatively common, but can be more stringently defined for metalloproteases as 'abXHEbbHbc', where 'a' is most often valine or threonine and forms part of the S1' subsite in thermolysin and neprilysin, 'b' is an uncharged residue, and 'c' a hydrophobic residue. Proline is never found in this site, possibly because it would break the helical structure adopted by this motif in metalloproteases . Peptidases are grouped into clans and families. Clans are groups of families for which there is evidence of common ancestry. Each clan is identified with two letters, the first representing the catalytic type of the families included in the clan (with the letter 'P' being used for a clan containing families of more than one of the catalytic types serine, threonine and cysteine). Some families cannot yet be assigned to clans, and when a formal assignment is required, such a family is described as belonging to clan A-, C-, M-, S-, T- or U-, according to the catalytic type. Some clans are divided into subclans because there is evidence of a very ancient divergence within the clan, for example MA(E), the gluzincins, and MA(M), the metzincins. Families are grouped by their catalytic type, the first character representing the catalytic type: A, aspartic; C, cysteine; G, glutamic acid; M, metallo; S, serine; T, threonine; and U, unknown. The serine, threonine and cysteine peptidases utilise the amino acid as a nucleophile and form an acyl intermediate - these peptidases can also readily act as transferases. In the case of aspartic, glutamic and metallopeptidases, the nucleophile is an activated water molecule. This group of metallopeptidases belong to MEROPS peptidase family M24 (clan MG), subfamily M24A. Methionine aminopeptidase (3.4.11.18 from EC) (MAP) is responsible for the removal of the amino-terminal (initiator) methionine from nascent eukaryotic cytosolic and cytoplasmic prokaryotic proteins if the penultimate amino acid is small and uncharged. All MAP studied to date are monomeric proteins that require cobalt ions for activity. Two subfamilies of MAP enzymes are known to exist , . While being evolutionary related, they only share a limited amount of sequence similarity mostly clustered around the residues shown, in the Escherichia coli MAP , to be involved in cobalt-binding. The first family consists of enzymes from prokaryotes as well as eukaryotic MAP-1, while the second group (IPR002467 from INTERPRO) is made up of archaeal MAP and eukaryotic MAP-2 and includes proteins which do not seem to be MAP, but that are clearly evolutionary related such as mouse proliferation-associated protein 1 and fission yeast curved DNA-binding protein. ; GO: 0004239 methionyl aminopeptidase activity, 0006508 proteolysis.

Probab=99.20  E-value=3.8e-10  Score=90.65  Aligned_cols=179  Identities=20%  Similarity=0.316  Sum_probs=128.0

Q ss_pred             HHHCCCCCCCHHHHHHHH-HHHHHHHH----HCCC-CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEECCCCEEEEECCCC
Q ss_conf             210012453018899999-99875433----0278-55554100001233543222245543320503898799830320
Q gi|254780605|r  342 SQSLETITEIDIIKKLER-CREEIGCK----MRNP-LRDIAFNTIAASGPHAAIIHYQATVQSNRLLQKDELLLLDSGAQ  415 (609)
Q Consensus       342 ~~~~~~iTE~~ia~~Le~-~R~~~~~~----~~~~-~~~~SF~TIva~G~N~AipHY~~~~~s~~~i~~~~~~LiDsG~q  415 (609)
T Consensus        27 ~~I~PG~klleva~fvEnri~e~tGa~nllameDPksqGiAFP~n~S~N~~AA--HfTp~~gD~~~~k~~DvvKlD~Gah  104 (327)
T TIGR00501        27 DRIVPGVKLLEVAEFVENRIRELTGAENLLAMEDPKSQGIAFPCNISINEVAA--HFTPKAGDETVFKDGDVVKLDLGAH  104 (327)
T ss_pred             HHCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHCCCCCHHHCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHCCCC--CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEECCE
T ss_conf             52678861212212121012122064100110386325522556751213010--1686888863127787688752206


Q ss_pred             EECCCCCCEEEEEECCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHCCCC---CCCC-------CCC
Q ss_conf             105612221432103788888433366778888899721789788889999873667741865---4776-------432
Q gi|254780605|r  416 YVNGTTDITRTIAIGDVDYEKKYYFTLVLKGMISVSTARFPQRTRGCDLDSIARIFLWKYGAD---FAHG-------VGH  485 (609)
Q Consensus       416 Y~~GtTDiTRT~~~G~~~~e~k~~yt~VLk~~ial~~a~fp~g~~g~~lD~~aR~~l~~~g~d---y~Hg-------tGH  485 (609)
T Consensus       105 vdGyIaD~A~TV~l~~~ddky~~L~~A~~dAl~~~i~~-~~~~v~v~eiG~~I~e~i~syeveinGetYg~kP~~NL~GH  183 (327)
T TIGR00501       105 VDGYIADTAITVDLGDQDDKYKELVKAAKDALYTAIKE-IRAGVEVGEIGKAIEEVIESYEVEINGETYGVKPISNLTGH  183 (327)
T ss_pred             ECCEEEEEEEEEECCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-CCCCCEEECCCHHHHHHHCCEEEEECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
T ss_conf             65578704788506887015899999999998877750-06981260020776653221357765720143342227356


Q ss_pred             CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC---CCCCCCEECCCCEEEECCCEEECCCC
Q ss_conf             321135607788623---77898600569878846860356875
Q gi|254780605|r  486 GVGSFLPVHEGPQGI---SRTNQEPLLPGMILSNEPGYYRCGAF  526 (609)
Q Consensus       486 GVG~~l~VHE~P~~i---s~~~~~~l~~Gmv~s~EPG~Y~~g~~  526 (609)
T Consensus       184 s~~rY~-~H~G~-SiPn~~~~~~~~leeG~~~AIEp-FAt~G~G  224 (327)
T TIGR00501       184 SMARYL-LHAGL-SIPNVKERDTTKLEEGDVVAIEP-FATDGVG  224 (327)
T ss_pred             CCCHHH-HCCCC-CCEEEECCCCCEEECCCEEEECC-CCCCCEE
T ss_conf             400154-35895-00034279874510257888436-6768745