Member database | PROSITE profiles |
PROSITE profiles type | domain |
Short name | SURF1 |
Description
The surfeit locus 1 gene (SURF1 or surf-1) encodes for a conserved protein of
about 300 amino-acid residues that seems to be involved in the biogenesis of
cytochrome c oxidase
[1]. Vertebrate SURF1 is evolutionary related to yeast
protein SHY1 and homologous proteins have been found in several relatively
recent prokaryotes. All known eukaryotic SURF1 sequences are extended on the
N-terminal end as compared to the bacterial species. This extension contains a
typical mitochondrial targeting pre-sequence. In Paracoccus denitrificans, the
SURF1 homologue is found in the quinol oxidase operon, suggesting that SURF1
is associated with a primitive quinol oxidase which belongs to the same
superfamily as cytochrome oxidase
[2].
Proteins of the SURF1 family contain at least four highly conserved regions
that should be essential for SURF1 function and there seems to be two
transmembrane regions in these proteins, one in the N-terminal, the other in
the C-terminal
[2].
The profile we developed covers the two transmembrane domains and the region
in between.
References
1.SURF1, encoding a factor involved in the biogenesis of cytochrome c oxidase, is mutated in Leigh syndrome. Zhu Z, Yao J, Johns T, Fu K, De Bie I, Macmillan C, Cuthbert AP, Newbold RF, Wang J, Chevrette M, Brown GK, Brown RM, Shoubridge EA. Nat. Genet. 20, 337-43, (1998). View articlePMID: 9843204
2.Sequence conservation from human to prokaryotes of Surf1, a protein involved in cytochrome c oxidase assembly, deficient in Leigh syndrome. Poyau A, Buchet K, Godinot C. FEBS Lett. 462, 416-20, (1999). View articlePMID: 10622737