title: SAM (dependent) I AM: the S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase fold.
abstract: The S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase enzymes share little sequence identity, but incorporate a highly conserved structural fold. Surprisingly, residues that bind the common cofactor are poorly conserved, although the binding site is localised to the same region of the fold. The substrate-binding region of the fold varies enormously. Over the past two years, there has been a significant increase in the number of structures that are known to incorporate this fold, including several uncharacterized proteins and two proteins that lack methyltransferase activity.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Drug Design and Development, and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia. J.Martin@imb.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Fiona M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: McMillan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D006801:Humans; D008780:Methyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D012436:S-Adenosylmethionine / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D012436:S-Adenosylmethionine; D008780:Methyltransferases