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Table 2 Distinctive Characters Describing Structural, Sequential, and Functional (Dis)similarities of SPOUT families

From: Structural and evolutionary bioinformatics of the SPOUT superfamily of methyltransferases

family

representative

specificity

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

COG0566A

TrmH

tRNA:Gm18

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-

1

1

-

1

COG0566B

RlmB

23S rRNA:Gm2251

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-

1

1

-

1

COG0566C

AviRb

23S rRNA:Um2479

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

-

1

1

-

1

COG0565

TrmJ

tRNA:Xm32

?

?

?

1

1

1

1

-

1

1

-

1

COG0219

YibK

unknown

1

1

1

1

1

?

1

-

1

1

-

1

COG4080

PAE3113

unknown

?

?

?

1

1

?

-

-

-

-

-

1

COG4752

TM1570

unknown

?

?

?

1

1

?

1

-

-

1

-

1

COG1772

PF0315

unknown

?

?

?

1

5

?

1

-

-

-

-

1

COG1818

PF1925

unknown

?

?

?

3

1

?

1

-

-

-

-

1

COG1303

PAB1040

tRNA:Cm56

?

?

?

1

1

1

1

-

1

-

-

1

COG1385

RsmE

16S rRNA:m3U1498

2

1

1

2

2

3

-

-

1

-

-

1

COG2106

MT1

unknown

3

1

1

4

6

?

1

-

-

1

-

1

COG1901

PF1403

unknown

?

?

?

2

2

?

-

-

-

-

-

1

COG1576

YbeA

unknown

5

2

2

5

3

?

-

1

-

-

-

0

COG1756

Nep1p

unknown

?

?

?

6

7

?

-

-

-

-

-

1

COG0336

TrmD

tRNA:m1G37

4

2

2

7

3

2

-

1

-

-

-

0

COG2419

Trm10p

tRNA:m1G9

?

?

?

8

4

2

-

1

-

-

1

?

COG2428

Yor021c

unknown

?

?

?

9

4

?

-

-

-

-

1

?

  1. 1. DALI Z-score > 15 in pairwise similarities: this feature clearly distinguishes four members of the 'supercluster' (COG0566 and COG0219, state 1) from other SPOUT structures (states 2–5). 2. DALI Z-score > 11 in pairwise similarities: this feature allows to split the SPOUT structures into two groups: COG0566, COG0219, COG2106, and COG1385 (state 1) vs COG0336 and COG1576 (state 2). 3. Dimerization mode (perpendicular vs antiparallel): this feature disregards the similarity of monomers, but focuses on their mutual orientation. As discussed earlier (see Figure 2), members of COG0566, COG0219, COG2106, and COG1385 form 'perpendicular' dimers (state 1), while members of COG0336 and COG1576 form 'antiparallel' dimers (state 2). 4. HHpred P-value < 1e-4 in pairwise similarities: this feature assigns state 1 to COG0556, COG0219, COG0565, COG4080, COG1303, COG4752, and COG1772, state 2 to a pair of COG1385 and COG1901, and states 3–9 to all other COGs, regarded as 'singletons'. 5. Clustering according to CLANS: here, states were arbitrarily assigned according to the visual analysis of CLANS results (Figure 4). This grouping identifies nearly the same group of closely related families as feature 4 (with the exception of inclusion of COG1818 and removal of COG1772), but allows additions groupings, in particular COG0336 with COG1576 (state 3) and COG2419 with COG2428 (state 4). Singletons are assigned states 5–7. 6. Methylation product: assigned based on experimental data. State 1: 2'-O-ribose, state 2: m1G, state 3: m3U. 7. Active site variant I: conserved Arg or Lys in the N-terminal helix and conserved Ser or Thr in the C-terminal helix. In this manuscript we predict that these residues may be characteristic for 2'-O-ribose MTases. 8. Active site variant II: conserved Arg or Lys in the C-terminal helix. This feature may be correlated with the antiparallel dimerization mode (feature 3), which requires 'migration' of the basic residue in one subunit of the dimer (compared to the 'perpendicular' mode of dimerization) to maintain the interaction with the rest of the active site in the other subunit. 9. Conserved Glu in the cofactor/methionine-binding loop: the functional significance of this conservation is unclear; this residue forms an intramolecular salt bridge and seems more important for the structural stability than for catalysis. 10. Insertion (> = 4aa) in a loop that binds adenosine of AdoMet. 11. Insertion (> = 4aa) in a loop that binds methionine of AdoMet. 12. Secondary structure of the variable Rossmanoidal part of the SPOUT fold: state 1:β-strands, state 0: 2 β-strands.