Ethanolaminephosphotransferase 1 (SELENOI)

The protein contains 397 amino acids for an estimated molecular weight of 45229 Da.

 

Ethanolaminephosphotransferase that catalyzes the transfer of phosphoethanolamine/PE from CDP-ethanolamine to lipid acceptors, the final step in the synthesis of PE via the 'Kennedy' pathway (PubMed:17132865, PubMed:28052917, PubMed:29500230). PE is the second most abundant phospholipid of membranes in mammals and is involved in various membrane-related cellular processes (PubMed:17132865). The enzyme is critical for the synthesis of several PE species and could also catalyze the synthesis of ether-linked phospholipids like plasmanyl- and plasmenyl-PE which could explain it is required for proper myelination and neurodevelopment (PubMed:29500230). (updated: Feb. 10, 2021)

Protein identification was indicated in the following studies:

  1. 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.

This protein is predicted to be membranous by TOPCONS.


Interpro domains
Total structural coverage: 0%
Model score: 0
No model available.

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VariantDescription
SPG81

No binding partner found

The reference OMIM entry for this protein is 607915

Selenoprotein i
Seli

DESCRIPTION

Selenoproteins, such as SELI, contain the rare twenty-first amino acid, selenocysteine (sec). These proteins lack common amino acid sequence motifs, but the 3-prime untranslated regions of selenoprotein genes have a common stem-loop structure, the sec insertion sequence (SECIS), that is necessary for the recognition of UGA as a sec codon rather than as a stop signal (summary by Kryukov et al., 1999 and Kryukov et al., 2003).

CLONING

By searching databases using a SECIS-based method to identify putative selenoproteins, Kryukov et al. (2003) identified SELI. The deduced 397-amino acid protein contains a sec at position 387, near the C terminus. SELI mRNA was detected in a variety of tissues and cell types.

GENE STRUCTURE

Kryukov et al. (2003) reported that the SELI gene contains 10 exons.

MAPPING

Kryukov et al. (2003) reported that the SELI gene maps to chromosome 2p23.3. ... More on the omim web site

Subscribe to this protein entry history

Feb. 16, 2021: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Entry updated from uniprot information.

June 30, 2020: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: OMIM entry 607915 was added.

Oct. 19, 2018: Additional information
Initial protein addition to the database. This entry was referenced in Bryk and co-workers. (2017).