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Family: IRE_II (RF02253)

Description: Iron response element II

Summary

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The Rfam group coordinates the annotation of Rfam families in Wikipedia. This family is described by a Wikipedia entry Iron response element. More...

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Sequences

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Secondary structure

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Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we generate a mapping between EMBL, PDB and Rfam coordinate systems. The table below shows the structures on which the IRE_II family has been found.

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References

This section shows the database cross-references that we have for this Rfam family.

Literature references

  1. Koeller DM, Casey JL, Hentze MW, Gerhardt EM, Chan LN, Klausner RD, Harford JB Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989;86:3574-3578. A cytosolic protein binds to structural elements within the iron regulatory region of the transferrin receptor mRNA. PUBMED:2498873

  2. Lymboussaki A, Pignatti E, Montosi G, Garuti C, Haile DJ, Pietrangelo A J Hepatol. 2003;39:710-715. The role of the iron responsive element in the control of ferroportin1/IREG1/MTP1 gene expression. PUBMED:14568251

  3. Kohler SA, Henderson BR, Kuhn LC J Biol Chem. 1995;270:30781-30786. Succinate dehydrogenase b mRNA of Drosophila melanogaster has a functional iron-responsive element in its 5'-untranslated region. PUBMED:8530520

  4. Gunshin H, Allerson CR, Polycarpou-Schwarz M, Rofts A, Rogers JT, Kishi F, Hentze MW, Rouault TA, Andrews NC, Hediger MA FEBS Lett. 2001;509:309-316. Iron-dependent regulation of the divalent metal ion transporter. PUBMED:11741608

  5. Cmejla R, Petrak J, Cmejlova J Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006;341:158-166. A novel iron responsive element in the 3'UTR of human MRCKalpha. PUBMED:16412980

  6. Gray NK, Pantopoulos K, Dandekar T, Ackrell BA, Hentze MW Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996;93:4925-4930. Translational regulation of mammalian and Drosophila citric acid cycle enzymes via iron-responsive elements. PUBMED:8643505

  7. Dandekar T, Stripecke R, Gray NK, Goossen B, Constable A, Johansson HE, Hentze MW EMBO J. 1991;10:1903-1909. Identification of a novel iron-responsive element in murine and human erythroid delta-aminolevulinic acid synthase mRNA. PUBMED:2050126

  8. Sanchez M, Galy B, Dandekar T, Bengert P, Vainshtein Y, Stolte J, Muckenthaler MU, Hentze MW J Biol Chem. 2006;281:22865-22874. Iron regulation and the cell cycle: identification of an iron-responsive element in the 3'-untranslated region of human cell division cycle 14A mRNA by a refined microarray-based screening strategy. PUBMED:16760464

  9. Sanchez M, Galy B, Muckenthaler MU, Hentze MW Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2007;14:420-426. Iron-regulatory proteins limit hypoxia-inducible factor-2alpha expression in iron deficiency. PUBMED:17417656

  10. Wingert RA, Galloway JL, Barut B, Foott H, Fraenkel P, Axe JL, Weber GJ, Dooley K, Davidson AJ, Schmid B, Paw BH, Shaw GC, Kingsley P, Palis J, Schubert H, Chen O, Kaplan J, Zon LI Nature. 2005;436:1035-1039. Deficiency of glutaredoxin 5 reveals Fe-S clusters are required for vertebrate haem synthesis. PUBMED:16110529

  11. Alen C, Sonenshein AL Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999;96:10412-10417. Bacillus subtilis aconitase is an RNA-binding protein. PUBMED:10468622

  12. Kohler SA, Menotti E, Kuhn LC J Biol Chem. 1999;274:2401-2407. Molecular cloning of mouse glycolate oxidase. High evolutionary conservation and presence of an iron-responsive element-like sequence in the mRNA. PUBMED:9891009

  13. Lin E, Graziano JH, Freyer GA J Biol Chem. 2001;276:27685-27692. Regulation of the 75-kDa subunit of mitochondrial complex I by iron. PUBMED:11313346

  14. Walden WE, Selezneva A, Volz K FEBS Lett. 2012;586:32-35. Accommodating variety in iron-responsive elements: Crystal structure of transferrin receptor 1 B IRE bound to iron regulatory protein 1. PUBMED:22119729

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Curation and family details

This section shows the detailed information about the Rfam family. We're happy to receive updated or improved alignments for new or existing families. Submit your new alignment and we'll take a look.

Curation

Seed source Leipuviene, R. and Theil, E.C.
Structure source Published; PMID:17849083
Type Cis-reg;
Author Stevens S, Gardner PORCID logo, Brown C
Alignment details
Alignment Number of
sequences
full 914
seed 30

Model information

Build commands
cmbuild -F CM SEED
cmcalibrate --mpi CM
Search command
cmsearch --cpu 4 --verbose --nohmmonly -T 25.00 -Z 742849.287494 CM SEQDB
Gathering cutoff 30.0
Trusted cutoff 30.0
Noise cutoff 29.9
Covariance model Download