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tRNA-guanine transglycosylase superfamily

SCOP classification
Root:   SCOP hierarchy in SUPERFAMILY [ 0] (11)
Class:   Alpha and beta proteins (a/b) [ 51349] (141)
  Mainly parallel beta sheets (beta-alpha-beta units)
Fold:   TIM beta/alpha-barrel [ 51350] (33)
  contains parallel beta-sheet barrel, closed; n=8, S=8; strand order 12345678
the first seven superfamilies have similar phosphate-binding sites
Superfamily:   tRNA-guanine transglycosylase [ 51713]
Families:   tRNA-guanine transglycosylase [ 51714] (2)


InterPro annotation
Cross references IPR002616 SSF51713 Protein matches
Abstract queuosine at position 34 in bacterial tRNAs and This is a family of queuine, archaeosine and general tRNA-ribosyltransferases , also known as tRNA-guanine transglycosylase and guanine insertion enzyme. Queuine tRNA-ribosyltransferase modifies tRNAs for asparagine, aspartic acid, histidine and tyrosine with queuine at position 34 and with archaeosine at position 15 in archaeal tRNAs. In bacterial it catalyses the exchange of guanine-34 at the wobble position with 7-aminomethyl-7-deazaguanine, and the addition of a cyclopentenediol moiety to 7-aminomethyl-7-deazaguanine-34 tRNA; giving a hypermodified base queuine in the wobble position [PubMed8654383, PubMed8323579]. The aligned region contains a zinc binding motif C-x-C-x2-C-x29-H, and important tRNA and 7-aminomethyl-7deazaguanine binding residues [PubMed8654383].

InterPro database

Functional annotation
General category Information
Detailed category Translation

Function annotation of SCOP domain superfamilies

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Internal database links

The SUPERFAMILY hidden Markov model library has been used to carry out SCOP domain assignments to all genomes at the superfamily level. Click on the 'Genome Assignments' icon above to view the genome assignments for this superfamily.


Alignments of sequences to

Alignments of sequences to 2 models in this superfamily are available by clicking on the superfamily level 'Alignments' icon above. PDB sequences less than 40% identical are shown by default, but any other sequences may be aligned. Select PDB sequences, genome sequences, or paste in or upload your own.


It is possible to browse and view the proteins in the genomes which have different combinations of domains including a tRNA-guanine transglycosylase domain. Click on the 'Domain Combinations' icon.


To view the distribution of domain superfamilies, or families, across the major taxonomic kingdoms or genomes within a kingdom click on the 'TaxViz' icon above. This gives an immediate impression of how superfamilies, or families, are restricted to certain kingdoms of life.


Undirected domain occurrence networks are available for all superfamilies. Nodes in these networks represent genomes. Connections between nodes represent the presence of domain architectures, which contain the superfamily of interest, in both genomes.

There are 2 hidden Markov models representing the tRNA-guanine transglycosylase superfamily. Information on how the models are built, and plots showing hydrophobicity, match emmission probabilities and insertion/deletion probabilities can be viewed by clicking on the icon above.


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