ID PAL2_IPOBA Reviewed; 708 AA. AC Q42858; DT 15-JUL-1998, integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. DT 01-NOV-1996, sequence version 1. DT 16-JUN-2009, entry version 59. DE RecName: Full=Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase; DE EC=4.3.1.24; OS Ipomoea batatas (Sweet potato) (Batate). OC Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; OC Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; eudicotyledons; core eudicotyledons; OC asterids; lamiids; Solanales; Convolvulaceae; Ipomoeeae; Ipomoea. OX NCBI_TaxID=4120; RN [1] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA]. RC STRAIN=cv. Beniazuma; TISSUE=Root; RA Tanaka Y.; RL Submitted (DEC-1995) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. CC -!- FUNCTION: This is a key enzyme of plant metabolism catalyzing the CC first reaction in the biosynthesis from L-phenylalanine of a wide CC variety of natural products based on the phenylpropane skeleton. CC -!- CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: L-phenylalanine = trans-cinnamate + ammonia. CC -!- PATHWAY: Phenylpropanoid metabolism; cinnamic acid biosynthesis; CC trans-cinnamic acid from L-phenylalanine: step 1/1. CC -!- SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm (Probable). CC -!- PTM: Contains an active site 4-methylidene-imidazol-5-one (MIO), CC which is formed autocatalytically by cyclization and dehydration CC of residues Ala-Ser-Gly (By similarity). CC -!- SIMILARITY: Belongs to the PAL/histidase family. CC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CC Copyrighted by the UniProt Consortium, see http://www.uniprot.org/terms CC Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License CC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DR EMBL; D78640; BAA11459.1; -; mRNA. DR PIR; T10909; T10909. DR HSSP; P21310; 1GKM. DR SMR; Q42858; 18-708. DR BRENDA; 4.3.1.5; 21210. DR GO; GO:0005737; C:cytoplasm; IEA:UniProtKB-SubCell. DR GO; GO:0016211; F:ammonia ligase activity; IEA:InterPro. DR GO; GO:0016841; F:ammonia-lyase activity; IEA:InterPro. DR GO; GO:0009058; P:biosynthetic process; IEA:InterPro. DR GO; GO:0006559; P:L-phenylalanine catabolic process; IEA:InterPro. DR GO; GO:0009698; P:phenylpropanoid metabolic process; IEA:UniProtKB-KW. DR InterPro; IPR001106; Phe/His_NH3-lyase. DR InterPro; IPR005922; Phe_NH3-lyase. DR Pfam; PF00221; PAL; 1. DR TIGRFAMs; TIGR01226; phe_am_lyase; 1. DR PROSITE; PS00488; PAL_HISTIDASE; 1. PE 2: Evidence at transcript level; KW Cytoplasm; Lyase; Phenylpropanoid metabolism. FT CHAIN 1 708 Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase. FT /FTId=PRO_0000215394. FT MOD_RES 195 195 2,3-didehydroalanine (Ser) (By FT similarity). FT CROSSLNK 194 196 5-imidazolinone (Ala-Gly) (By FT similarity). SQ SEQUENCE 708 AA; 77383 MW; C10F736C41F1BEC6 CRC64; MEGAIANGHT NDFCIKVDPL NWEMAADSLK GSHLDEVKRM VAEFRNPAVK IGGQTLTSLR SPPIAARDNA SKWSSPRLPA RRESSSDWVM NSMNNGTDSY GVTTGFGATS HRRTKNGHAL QQELIRFLNA GIFGTGTGAS HTLPHSATRA AMLVRINTLL QGYSGIRFEI LEAITKLLNH NITPCLPLRG TITASGDLVP LSYIAGLLTG RPNSKAVGPN GEALTAEEAF KLAGVQGGFF ELQPKEGLAL VNGTAVGSGM ASMVLFEANV LAVLSEVLSA IFAEVMNGKP EFTDHLTHKL KHHPGQIEAA AIMEHILDRS YYMKAAQKLH EMDPLQKPKQ DRYALRTSPQ WLGPQIEVIR QATKMIEREI NSVNDNPLID VSRNKALHGG NFQGTPIGVS MDNSRLALAS IGKLIFAQFS ELVNDYYNNG LPSNLTAGRN PSLDYGFKGV EIAMASYCSE LQFLANPVTN HVQSAEQHNQ DVNSLGLISA RKTAEAVDVL KLMSSTYLVA LCQAIDLRHL EENLKNAVRN TVNQVAKRTL TMGVNGELHP SRFCEKDLLR VVDREYVFAY ADDPCSANYP LFQKLRQVLV DHALQNGEHE KNVSTSIFQK IAAFEDELKA VLPKEVEGAR SAIENGNPAI PNRITECRSY PLYKFVREEL GTEMLTGEKV KSPGEVCDKV FTAVCDGGII DPLLECLKSW DGAPLPIC //