A novel superfamily containing the β-grasp fold involved in binding diverse soluble ligands

A Maxwell Burroughs¹^,2 , S Balaji¹ , Lakshminarayan M Iyer¹ and L Aravind¹

¹National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

²Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA

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Biology Direct 2007, 2:4doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-4


Published:	24 January 2007

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Cartoon representations of SLBB domains. File 1 contains cartoon representations of the transcobalamin and the Nqo1 middle domain showing the structural similarity and innovations associated with the potential binding site for soluble ligands.

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Additional file 2:

Comprehensive list of proteins of the SLBB superfamily, their gene neighborhoods, and domain architectures. Alignments of the SLBB domain will be submitted to the Pfam domain database [39].

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