ID MERP_SHIFL Reviewed; 91 AA. AC P04129; P07042; DT 01-NOV-1986, integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. DT 01-NOV-1986, sequence version 1. DT 26-NOV-2014, entry version 101. DE RecName: Full=Mercuric transport protein periplasmic component; DE AltName: Full=Mercury scavenger protein; DE AltName: Full=Periplasmic mercury ion-binding protein; DE Flags: Precursor; GN Name=merP; OS Shigella flexneri. OG Plasmid IncFII R100 (NR1). OC Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; OC Enterobacteriaceae; Shigella. OX NCBI_TaxID=623; RN [1] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [GENOMIC DNA]. RX PubMed=6091128; DOI=10.1073/pnas.81.19.5975; RA Misra T.K., Brown N.L., Fritzinger D.C., Pridmore R.D., Barnes W.M., RA Haberstroh L., Silver S.; RT "Mercuric ion-resistance operons of plasmid R100 and transposon Tn501: RT the beginning of the operon including the regulatory region and the RT first two structural genes."; RL Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81:5975-5979(1984). RN [2] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [GENOMIC DNA]. RC TRANSPOSON=Tn21; RX PubMed=6530603; RA Barrineau P., Gilbert P., Jackson W.J., Jones C.S., Summers A.O., RA Wisdom S.; RT "The DNA sequence of the mercury resistance operon of the IncFII RT plasmid NR1."; RL J. Mol. Appl. Genet. 2:601-619(1984). RN [3] RP STRUCTURE BY NMR. RX PubMed=9188683; DOI=10.1021/bi9631632; RA Steele R.A., Opella S.J.; RT "Structures of the reduced and mercury-bound forms of MerP, the RT periplasmic protein from the bacterial mercury detoxification RT system."; RL Biochemistry 36:6885-6895(1997). RN [4] RP STRUCTURE BY NMR. RX PubMed=9649312; DOI=10.1021/bi9803628; RA Qian H., Sahlman L., Eriksson P.O., Hambraeus C., Edlund U., RA Sethson I.; RT "NMR solution structure of the oxidized form of MerP, a mercuric ion RT binding protein involved in bacterial mercuric ion resistance."; RL Biochemistry 37:9316-9322(1998). CC -!- FUNCTION: Mercury scavenger that specifically binds to one mercury CC ion and which passes it to the mercuric reductase (MerA) via the CC MerT protein. CC -!- SUBUNIT: Monomer. CC -!- SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Periplasm {ECO:0000305}. CC -!- SIMILARITY: Contains 1 HMA domain. {ECO:0000255|PROSITE- CC ProRule:PRU00280}. CC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC Copyrighted by the UniProt Consortium, see https://www.uniprot.org/terms CC Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License CC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR EMBL; J01730; AAA92262.1; -; Genomic_DNA. DR EMBL; K03089; AAB59076.1; -; Genomic_DNA. DR PIR; A03556; RGEBHD. DR PIR; S09524; S09524. DR PDB; 1AFI; NMR; -; A=20-91. DR PDB; 1AFJ; NMR; -; A=20-91. DR PDB; 1DVW; NMR; -; A=25-42. DR PDB; 2HQI; NMR; -; A=20-91. DR PDBsum; 1AFI; -. DR PDBsum; 1AFJ; -. DR PDBsum; 1DVW; -. DR PDBsum; 2HQI; -. DR ProteinModelPortal; P04129; -. DR SMR; P04129; 20-91. DR EvolutionaryTrace; P04129; -. DR GO; GO:0042597; C:periplasmic space; IEA:UniProtKB-KW. DR GO; GO:0045340; F:mercury ion binding; IEA:InterPro. DR GO; GO:0015097; F:mercury ion transmembrane transporter activity; IEA:InterPro. DR InterPro; IPR017969; Heavy-metal-associated_CS. DR InterPro; IPR006121; HeavyMe-assoc_HMA. DR InterPro; IPR011795; MerP. DR InterPro; IPR001802; MerP/CopZ. DR Pfam; PF00403; HMA; 1. DR PRINTS; PR00946; HGSCAVENGER. DR SUPFAM; SSF55008; SSF55008; 1. DR TIGRFAMs; TIGR02052; MerP; 1. DR PROSITE; PS01047; HMA_1; 1. DR PROSITE; PS50846; HMA_2; 1. PE 1: Evidence at protein level; KW 3D-structure; Mercuric resistance; Mercury; Metal-binding; Periplasm; KW Plasmid; Signal; Transport; Transposable element. FT SIGNAL 1 19 FT CHAIN 20 91 Mercuric transport protein periplasmic FT component. FT /FTId=PRO_0000021679. FT DOMAIN 23 89 HMA. {ECO:0000255|PROSITE- FT ProRule:PRU00280}. FT METAL 33 33 Mercury. {ECO:0000255|PROSITE- FT ProRule:PRU00280}. FT METAL 36 36 Mercury. {ECO:0000255|PROSITE- FT ProRule:PRU00280}. FT CONFLICT 51 51 S -> T (in Ref. 2; AAB59076). FT {ECO:0000305}. FT STRAND 22 27 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT TURN 29 32 {ECO:0000244|PDB:2HQI}. FT STRAND 33 35 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT HELIX 36 45 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT STRAND 48 56 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT TURN 57 60 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT STRAND 61 66 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT TURN 68 70 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT HELIX 73 83 {ECO:0000244|PDB:1AFI}. FT STRAND 88 90 {ECO:0000244|PDB:2HQI}. SQ SEQUENCE 91 AA; 9414 MW; 822183AC323031A5 CRC64; MKKLFASLAL AAAVAPVWAA TQTVTLAVPG MTCAACPITV KKALSKVEGV SKVDVGFEKR EAVVTFDDTK ASVQKLTKAT ADAGYPSSVK Q //