N-alpha-acetyltransferase 50 (NAA50)

The protein contains 169 amino acids for an estimated molecular weight of 19398 Da.

 

N-alpha-acetyltransferase that acetylates the N-terminus of proteins that retain their initiating methionine (PubMed:19744929, PubMed:22311970, PubMed:21900231, PubMed:27484799). Has a broad substrate specificity: able to acetylate the initiator methionine of most peptides, except for those with a proline in second position (PubMed:27484799). Also displays N-epsilon-acetyltransferase activity by mediating acetylation of the side chain of specific lysines on proteins (PubMed:19744929). Autoacetylates in vivo (PubMed:19744929). The relevance of N-epsilon-acetyltransferase activity is however unclear: able to acetylate H4 in vitro, but this result has not been confirmed in vivo (PubMed:19744929). Component of a N-alpha-acetyltransferase complex containing NAA10 and NAA15, but NAA50 does not influence the acetyltransferase activity of NAA10: this multiprotein complex probably constitutes the major contributor for N-terminal acetylation at the ribosome exit tunnel, with NAA10 acetylating all amino termini that are devoid of methionine and NAA50 acetylating other peptides (PubMed:16507339, PubMed:27484799). Required for sister chromatid cohesion during mitosis by promoting binding of CDCA5/sororin to cohesin: may act by counteracting the function of NAA10 (PubMed:17502424, PubMed:27422821). (updated: Oct. 25, 2017)

Protein identification was indicated in the following studies:

  1. Hegedűs and co-workers. (2015) Inconsistencies in the red blood cell membrane proteome analysis: generation of a database for research and diagnostic applications. Database (Oxford) 1-8.
  2. D'Alessandro and co-workers. (2017) Red blood cell proteomics update: is there more to discover? Blood Transfus. 15(2), 182-187.

Methods

The following articles were analysed to gather the proteome content of erythrocytes.

The gene or protein list provided in the studies were processed using the ID mapping API of Uniprot in September 2018. The number of proteins identified and mapped without ambiguity in these studies is indicated below.
Only Swiss-Prot entries (reviewed) were considered for protein evidence assignation.

PublicationIdentification 1Uniprot mapping 2Not mapped /
Obsolete
TrEMBLSwiss-Prot
Goodman (2013)2289 (gene list)227853205992269
Lange (2014)123412347281224
Hegedus (2015)2638262202352387
Wilson (2016)165815281702911068
d'Alessandro (2017)18261817201815
Bryk (2017)20902060101081942
Chu (2018)18531804553621387

1 as available in the article and/or in supplementary material
2 uniprot mapping returns all protein isoforms as one entry

The compilation of older studies can be retrieved from the Red Blood Cell Collection database.

The data and differentiation stages presented below come from the proteomic study and analysis performed by our partners of the GReX consortium, more details are available in their published work.

No sequence conservation computed yet.

Interpro domains
Total structural coverage: 100%
Model score: 100
No model available.

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The reference OMIM entry for this protein is 610834

N-acetyltransferase 13; nat13
Nat5, s. cerevisiae, homolog of
San, drosophila, homolog of

CLONING

By searching for sequences similar to yeast Nat5, Arnesen et al. (2006) identified human NAT13, which they called hNAT5. The deduced 169-amino acid protein contains a motif essential for acetyl-CoA binding, and it has a calculated molecular mass of 19.4 kD. NAT13 shares 25% identity with yeast Nat5 and 70% identity with the Drosophila homolog, San. RT-PCR detected NAT13 in all human cell lines examined. Epitope-tagged NAT13 localized to the cytoplasm of transfected HeLa cells.

GENE FUNCTION

The N-alpha-acetyltransferase complex cotranslationally acetylates the N termini of nascent polypeptides. In yeast, this complex contains Ard1 (300013), Nat1 (NARG1; 608000), and Nat5. By analyzing proteins coimmunoprecipitated from human embryonic kidney cells, Arnesen et al. (2006) found that NAT13, like yeast Nat5, associated with ARD1 and NARG1.

MAPPING

By genomic sequence analysis, Arnesen et al. (2006) mapped the NAT13 gene to chromosome 3q13.2. ... More on the omim web site

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Feb. 10, 2018: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Entry updated from uniprot information.

Feb. 2, 2018: Protein entry updated
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Dec. 19, 2017: Protein entry updated
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Nov. 23, 2017: Protein entry updated
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March 16, 2016: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: OMIM entry 610834 was added.

Jan. 28, 2016: Protein entry updated
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Jan. 24, 2016: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: model status changed