(Below N is a link to NCBI taxonomic web page and E link to ESTHER at designed phylum.) > cellular organisms: NE > Eukaryota: NE > Opisthokonta: NE > Metazoa: NE > Eumetazoa: NE > Bilateria: NE > Deuterostomia: NE > Chordata: NE > Craniata: NE > Vertebrata: NE > Gnathostomata: NE > Teleostomi: NE > Euteleostomi: NE > Sarcopterygii: NE > Dipnotetrapodomorpha: NE > Tetrapoda: NE > Amniota: NE > Mammalia: NE > Theria: NE > Eutheria: NE > Boreoeutheria: NE > Euarchontoglires: NE > Glires: NE > Rodentia: NE > Myomorpha: NE > Muroidea: NE > Muridae: NE > Murinae: NE > Mus [genus]: NE > Mus [subgenus]: NE > Mus musculus: NE
LegendThis sequence has been compared to family alignement (MSA) red => minority aminoacid blue => majority aminoacid color intensity => conservation rate title => sequence position(MSA position)aminoacid rate Catalytic site Catalytic site in the MSA MAKLTAVPLSALVDEPVHIQVTGLAPFQVVCLQASLKDERKPVSSQAFYR ASEVGEVDLEHDPSLGGDYMGVHPMGLFWSLKPEKLLGRLIKRDVINSPY QIHIKACHPYFPLQDLVVSPPLDSLTLERWYVAPGVKRIQVKESRIRGAL FLPPGEGPFPGVIDLFGGAGGLMEFRASLLASRGFATLALAYWNYDDLPS RLEKVDLEYFEEGVEFLLRHPKVLGPGVGILSVCIGAEIGLSMAINLKQI RATVLINGPNFVSQSPHVYHGQVYPPVPSNEEFVVTNALGLVEFYRTFQE TADKDSKYCFPIEKAHGHFLFVVGEDDKNLNSKVHANQAIAQLMKNGKKN WTLLSYPGAGHLIEPPYTPLCQASRMPILIPSLSWGGEVIPHSQAAQEHS WKEIQKFLKQHLLPDLSSQL
References
Title: The human bile acid-CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase functions in the conjugation of fatty acids to glycine O'Byrne J, Hunt MC, Rai DK, Saeki M, Alexson SE Ref: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278:34237, 2003 : PubMed
Bile acid-CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase (BACAT) catalyzes the conjugation of bile acids to glycine and taurine for excretion into bile. By use of site-directed mutagenesis and sequence comparisons, we have identified Cys-235, Asp-328, and His-362 as constituting a catalytic triad in human BACAT (hBACAT) and identifying BACAT as a member of the type I acyl-CoA thioesterase gene family. We therefore hypothesized that hBACAT may also hydrolyze fatty acyl-CoAs and/or conjugate fatty acids to glycine. We show here that recombinant hBACAT also can hydrolyze long- and very long-chain saturated acyl-CoAs (mainly C16:0-C26:0) and by mass spectrometry verified that hBACAT also conjugates fatty acids to glycine. Tissue expression studies showed strong expression of BACAT in liver, gallbladder, and the proximal and distal intestine. However, BACAT is also expressed in a variety of tissues unrelated to bile acid formation and transport, suggesting important functions also in the regulation of intracellular levels of very long-chain fatty acids. Green fluorescent protein localization experiments in human skin fibroblasts showed that the hBACAT enzyme is mainly cytosolic. Therefore, the cytosolic BACAT enzyme may play important roles in protection against toxicity by accumulation of unconjugated bile acids and non-esterified very long-chain fatty acids.
Only a small proportion of the mouse genome is transcribed into mature messenger RNA transcripts. There is an international collaborative effort to identify all full-length mRNA transcripts from the mouse, and to ensure that each is represented in a physical collection of clones. Here we report the manual annotation of 60,770 full-length mouse complementary DNA sequences. These are clustered into 33,409 'transcriptional units', contributing 90.1% of a newly established mouse transcriptome database. Of these transcriptional units, 4,258 are new protein-coding and 11,665 are new non-coding messages, indicating that non-coding RNA is a major component of the transcriptome. 41% of all transcriptional units showed evidence of alternative splicing. In protein-coding transcripts, 79% of splice variations altered the protein product. Whole-transcriptome analyses resulted in the identification of 2,431 sense-antisense pairs. The present work, completely supported by physical clones, provides the most comprehensive survey of a mammalian transcriptome so far, and is a valuable resource for functional genomics.
        
Title: Cloning, expression, and chromosomal localization of mouse liver bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase Falany CN, Fortinberry H, Leiter EH, Barnes S Ref: J Lipid Res, 38:1139, 1997 : PubMed
A mouse liver lambda Zap XR cDNA library was screened using the coding region of human bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase (BAT) cDNA as a probe. Ten positive clones were isolated and purified, two of which apparently possessed complete open reading frames for BAT based on sequence analysis of the ends of the cDNAs. One clone (mBAT#9) was selected for sequence analysis and characterization. mBAT#9 is 1869 basepairs in length and the full-length cDNA possesses a 189 basepair 5'-nontranslated region, an open-reading frame of 1260 basepairs, and a 404 basepair 3'-nontranslated region followed by a poly(A) tail. The open-reading frame codes for a 420 amino acid protein with a calculated molecular mass of 46,525 daltons. The structural gene for mBAT was mapped to mouse Chromosome 4. The amino acid sequence of mBAT is 69% identical and 84% similar to that of hBAT, and 86% identical and 95% similar to that of kan-1, a putative rat liver BAT. Enzymatically active mBAT was expressed in E. coli using the bacterial expression vector pKK233-2. Immunoblot analysis of expressed mBAT with rabbit anti-human BAT polyclonal antibodies detected a single protein with a molecular mass of approximately 45,000 daltons. Cytosol from cells transformed with mBAT#9/pKK233-2 possessed significant amounts of BAT-catalyzed conjugating activity with taurine as substrate but the expressed enzyme did not use glycine or fluoro-beta-alanine as substrates. The K(m) value for taurine was 1.9 mM +/- 0.1 mM in reactions with cholyl CoA as a cosubstrate. The specificity of mBAT for taurine as a substrate was confirmed by the demonstration, using HPLC-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, that mouse gallbladder bile contained only taurine conjugates of bile acids. The identification of the types of amino acid conjugates of bile acids present in mouse bile had not been previously reported. These results indicate that a taurine-specific form of BAT has been cloned and expressed from mouse liver.