Structural highlights
Function
SH3L3_MOUSE Could act as a modulator of glutaredoxin biological activity (By similarity).
Evolutionary Conservation
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
We report the 1.6 Angstrom resolution crystal structure of SH3BGRL3, a member of a new mammalian protein family of unknown function. The observed "thioredoxin fold" of SH3BGRL3 matches the tertiary structure of glutaredoxins, even in the N-terminal region where the sequence similarity between the two protein families is negligible. In particular, SH3BGRL3 displays structural modifications at the N-terminal Cys-x-x-Cys loop, responsible for glutathione binding and catalysis in glutaredoxins. The loop hosts a six residue insertion, yielding an extra N-terminal-capped helical turn, first observed here for the thioredoxin fold. This, together with deletion of both Cys residues, results in a substantial reshaping of the neighboring cleft, where glutathione is hosted in glutaredoxins. While not active in redox reaction and glutathione binding, SH3BGRL3 may act as an endogenous modulator of glutaredoxin activities by competing, with its fully conserved thioredoxin fold, for binding to yet unknown target proteins.
Crystal structure of the glutaredoxin-like protein SH3BGRL3 at 1.6 Angstrom resolution.,Nardini M, Mazzocco M, Massaro A, Maffei M, Vergano A, Donadini A, Scartezzini P, Bolognesi M Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 May 28;318(2):470-6. PMID:15120624[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Nardini M, Mazzocco M, Massaro A, Maffei M, Vergano A, Donadini A, Scartezzini P, Bolognesi M. Crystal structure of the glutaredoxin-like protein SH3BGRL3 at 1.6 Angstrom resolution. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 May 28;318(2):470-6. PMID:15120624 doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.04.050
