A number of phosphatidyltransferases, which are all involved in phospholipid
biosynthesis and that share the property of catalyzing the displacement of CMP
from a CDP-alcohol by a second alcohol with formation of a phosphodiester bond
and concomitant breaking of a phosphoride anhydride bond share a conserved
sequence region [1, 2].
These enzymes are proteins of from 200 to 400 amino acid residues. The
conserved region contains three aspartic acid residues and is located in the
N-terminal section of the sequences.
Hjelmstad RH, Bell RM.
sn-1,2-diacylglycerol choline- and ethanolaminephosphotransferases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleotide sequence of the EPT1 gene and comparison of the CPT1 and EPT1 gene products.
J. Biol. Chem. 266 5094-103 1991
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