| Range |
~30 Amino acids
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| Organism |
Plants |
| Reference |
Gruber CW et al., Distribution and evolution of circular miniproteins in flowering plants. Plant Cell. 2008 Sep20(9):2471-83. p.2471 left columnPubMed ID18827180
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| Primary Source |
Craik DJ, Daly NL, Bond T, Waine C. Plant cyclotides: A unique family of cyclic and knotted proteins that defines the cyclic cystine knot structural motif. J Mol Biol. 1999 Dec 17 294(5):1327-36.PubMed ID10600388
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| Comments |
Cyclotides are ~30 amino acids in size and
have the unique structural features of a head-to-tail cyclized
backbone and a knotted arrangement of three-disulfide bonds,
referred to as a cyclic cystine knot (CCK) motif (primary source). |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
107610 |