Size Comparisons among Integral Membrane Transport Protein Homologues in Bacteria , Archaea , and Eucarya
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- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 183 (3), 1012-1021
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.183.3.1012-1021.2001
Abstract
Integral membrane proteins from over 20 ubiquitous families of channels, secondary carriers, and primary active transporters were analyzed for average size differences between homologues from the three domains of life: Bacteria , Archaea , and Eucarya . The results showed that while eucaryotic homologues are consistently larger than their bacterial counterparts, archaeal homologues are significantly smaller. These size differences proved to be due primarily to variations in the sizes of hydrophilic domains localized to the N termini, the C termini, or specific loops between transmembrane α-helical spanners, depending on the family. Within the Eucarya domain, plant homologues proved to be substantially smaller than their animal and fungal counterparts. By contrast, extracytoplasmic receptors of ABC-type uptake systems in Archaea proved to be larger on average than those of their bacterial homologues, while cytoplasmic enzymes from different organisms exhibited little or no significant size differences. These observations presumably reflect evolutionary pressure and molecular mechanisms that must have been operative since these groups of organisms diverged from each other.Keywords
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