PREX Database: AhpE Information

AhpE

Very few AhpE proteins have been identified and all are found in aerobic gram-positive bacteria of the order Actinomycetales; however, they do not clearly group with any of the other Prx subfamilies (Nelson et al. 2011). The AhpE subfamily includes both 1-Cys and 2-Cys members. Mycobacterium tuberculosis AhpE reacts about two orders of magnitude more slowly with peroxide than members of the AhpC/Prx1 subfamily (~10⁵ vs ~10⁷ M^-1s^-1, respectively) and the identity of its physiologic reductant is unclear (Hugo et al. 2009).

Aligned active site signatures (from DASP; Nelson et al. 2011) from the AhpE subfamily (center group) and one representative each of the other five subfamilies (upper and lower groups). Key residues of the active site signatures are noted by asterisks along the top. Shown below is the unrooted tree generated by Phylip’s Drawtree using the SDSC Biology Workbench tools.

2 structures, 1 protein

PDB identifiers	Name	Species
1xvw, 1xxu	AhpE	Mycobacterium tuberculosis

AhpE references

Hugo, M., Turell, L., Manta, B., Botti, H., Monteiro, G., Netto, L. E. S., Alvarez, B., et al. (2009). Thiol and sulfenic acid oxidation of AhpE, the one-cysteine peroxiredoxin from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: kinetics, acidity constants, and conformational dynamics. Biochemistry, 48(40), 9416-9426. PMID: 19737009
Nelson, K. J., Knutson, S. T., Soito L., Klomsiri C., Poole, L. B., & Fetrow, J. S. (2011). Analysis of the peroxiredoxin family: using active site structure and sequence information for global classification and residue analysis. Proteins, 79(3), 947-964. PMID: 21181731