Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot P0A3D6 (HEMH_BRUME)

Names and origin

Protein names

Recommended name:
    Ferrochelatase
    EC=4.99.1.1
Alternative name(s):
    Protoheme ferro-lyase
    Heme synthetase

Gene names

Name:	hemH
Ordered Locus Names:	BMEII0018

Organism

Brucella melitensis [Complete proteome] [HAMAP]

Taxonomic identifier

29459 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Bacteria › Proteobacteria › Alphaproteobacteria › Rhizobiales › Brucellaceae › Brucella

Protein attributes

Sequence length	352 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Protein existence	Inferred from homology.

General annotation (Comments)

Function	Catalyzes the ferrous insertion into protoporphyrin IX. HAMAP MF_00323
Catalytic activity	Protoheme + 2 H+ = protoporphyrin + Fe2+. HAMAP MF_00323
Pathway	Porphyrin metabolism; protoheme biosynthesis; protoheme from protoporphyrin-IX: step 1/1. HAMAP MF_00323
Subcellular location	Cytoplasm By similarity HAMAP MF_00323.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the ferrochelatase family.

Ontologies

Keywords
Biological process	Heme biosynthesis Porphyrin biosynthesis
Cellular component	Cytoplasm
Ligand	Iron Metal-binding
Molecular function	Lyase
Technical term	Complete proteome
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	heme biosynthetic process Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: HAMAP
Cellular component	cytoplasm Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-SubCell
Molecular function	ferrochelatase activity Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: HAMAP iron ion binding Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW
Complete GO annotation...

Sequence annotation (Features)

	Feature key	Position(s)	Length	Description	Graphical view	Feature identifier
Molecule processing
	Chain	1 – 352	352	Ferrochelatase HAMAP MF_00323		PRO_0000175121
Sites
	Metal binding	222	1	Iron By similarity
	Metal binding	303	1	Iron By similarity

Sequences

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	P0A3D6-1 [UniParc]. Last modified March 15, 2005. Version 1. Checksum: 5FE6C0F0EA435D32	FASTA	352	40,057
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MSGTDKVRVN VSQTAQTPLH TSAKLPKVGV LLVNLGTPDG TSYGPMRRYL AEFLSDRRVI 70 80 90 100 110 120 EWSRLIWYPI LYGIVLNTRP RRSGRLYDRI WNHENNESPL RTYTRAQGEK LAKALSDQPN 130 140 150 160 170 180 VVVDWAMRYG QPSIESITDR LLQQGCERIV IFPLYPQYSA TTTATVNDKF FEALMKKRFM 190 200 210 220 230 240 PAIRTVPSYE AEPVYIDALA RSVEKHLATL SFKPEVILTS YHGIPKSYSD KGDPYRQQCL 250 260 270 280 290 300 ETTRLLRERL GLGEDEMRAT FQSRFGPEEW LQPYTDETVK ELAKNGVKSV AVLNPGFVAD 310 320 330 340 350 CLETVDEIGN EAAEEFLENG GENFSHIPCL NDSEEGMKVI ETLVRRELLG WV

References

[1]

"The genome sequence of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis." DelVecchio V.G., Kapatral V., Redkar R.J., Patra G., Mujer C., Los T., Ivanova N., Anderson I., Bhattacharyya A., Lykidis A., Reznik G., Jablonski L., Larsen N., D'Souza M., Bernal A., Mazur M., Goltsman E., Selkov E. , Elzer P.H., Hagius S., O'Callaghan D., Letesson J.-J., Haselkorn R., Kyrpides N.C., Overbeek R. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:443-448(2002) [PubMed: 11756688] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA]. Strain: 16M / ATCC 23456 / NCTC 10094 / Biotype 1.

Cross-references

Sequence databases
EMBL GenBank DDBJ	AE008918 Genomic DNA. Translation: AAL53259.1.
PIR	AH3511.
RefSeq	NP_540995.1.
3D structure databases
SMR	P0A3D6. Positions 24-351.
ModBase	Search...
Genome annotation databases
GeneID	1197789.
GenomeReviews	Gene locus BMEII0018 in contig AE008918_GR.
KEGG	bme:BMEII0018.
Organism-specific databases
CMR	Search...
Phylogenomic databases
HOGENOM	HBG697135.
OMA	TIEEIGM.
PhylomeDB	P0A3D6.
Enzyme and pathway databases
BioCyc	BMEL224914:BMEII0018-MONOMER.
BRENDA	4.99.1.1. 277959.
Family and domain databases
HAMAP	MF_00323. Ferrochelatase. [Tree]
InterPro	IPR001015. Ferrochelatase. IPR019772. Ferrochelatase_AS. [Graphical view]
PANTHER	PTHR11108. Ferrochelatase. 1 hit.
Pfam	PF00762. Ferrochelatase. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
TIGRFAMs	TIGR00109. hemH. 1 hit.
PROSITE	PS00534. FERROCHELATASE. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
ProtoNet	Search...

Entry information

Entry name

HEMH_BRUME

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: P0A3D6
Secondary accession number(s): Q939N8, Q93TG2

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	March 15, 2005
Last sequence update:	March 15, 2005
Last modified:	February 9, 2010
This is version 33 of the entry and version 1 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HAMAP (High-quality Automated and Manual Annotation of microbial Proteomes)