EAL domain
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| EAL domain | |||||||||
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 crystal structure of the bacillus subtilis ykui protein, with an eal domain. | |||||||||
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| Symbol | EAL | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00563 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR001633 | ||||||||
| CDD | cd01948 | ||||||||
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In molecular biology, the EAL domain is a conserved protein domain. It is found in diverse bacterial signalling proteins. It is named EAL after its conserved residues. The EAL domain may function as a diguanylate phosphodiesterase.[1] The domain contains many conserved acidic residues that could participate in metal binding and might form the phosphodiesterase active site.