title: The mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex: nucleotide and deduced amino-acid sequences of a cDNA encoding the Arabidopsis thaliana E1 alpha-subunit.
abstract: A cDNA encoding the E1 alpha subunit of the Arabidopsis thaliana (At) mitochondrial (mt) pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) was sequenced. The 1435-bp cDNA consists of a 1167-bp open reading frame encoding a 43.0-kDa polypeptide of 389 amino acids (aa) (pI 7.1). The plant E1 alpha subunit has 47-51% aa sequence identity with other eukaryotic sequences. Among the regions that are highly conserved are the aa surrounding phosphorylation sites 1 and 2 of the mammalian sequence, including the conserved Ser292 residue of At at site 1. An essential active site residue, Cys62 of the bovine subunit, is also conserved. A 32-aa presumptive mt targeting sequence is present at the N terminus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Luethy
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Miernyk
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Randall
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D003545:Cysteine; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex; D003545:Cysteine