Protein Domain : Nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphatase Maf-like protein IPR003697

Type  Family
Description  The Maf protein of Bacillus subtilis shares substantial amino acid sequence identity with Escherichia coli YhdE (previously known as OrfE) [ ]. Maf-like proteins are conserved in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Maf proteins have been implicated in cell division arrest []. It has also been proposed that they belong to a family of house-cleaning nucleotide hydrolyzing enzymes which prevent the incorporation of noncanonical nucleotides into cellular DNA []. Maf proteins exhibit nucleotide pyrophosphatase activity against canonical and modified nucleotides, which might represent a molecular mechanism for this dual role in cell division arrest and in house-cleaning []. This entry includes pyrophosphatases, such as YhdE and YceF from E. coli. YhdE is a nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphatase that hydrolyzes dTTP and UTP [ , , ]. YceF is a nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphatase that hydrolyzes 7-methyl-GTP (m7GTP) [].
Short Name  Maf-like

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