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Overview
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Pathways & interactions
Domain
Enhanced intracellular survival protein domain (IPR025559)
Short name: Eis_dom
Overlapping homologous superfamilies
- Acyl-CoA N-acyltransferase (IPR016181)
Domain relationships
None.
Description
This domain is found in enhanced intracellular survival protein eis from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It shares protein sequence similarity with the SCP2 sterol-binding domain.
eis may participate in pathogenesis, possibly by enhancing survival of the bacteria in host macrophages during infection [PMID: 10629183].
Contributing signatures
Signatures from InterPro member databases are used to construct an entry.
Pfam
- PF13530 (SCP2_2)