Zeta toxin protein domain
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| Zeta_toxin | |||||||||
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 structure and mechanism of t4 polynucleotide kinase | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | Zeta_toxin | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF06414 | ||||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0023 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR010488 | ||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1gvn / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
| Membranome | 314 | ||||||||
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In molecular biology, the protein domain Zeta (ζ) toxin refers to a protein domain found in prokaryotes, which acts as a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine kinase.[1] Its function is to inhibit cell wall biosynthesis and it may act as a bactericide in nature. It is also thought that Zeta toxin induces reversible protective dormancy and permeation to propidium iodide (PI).[2]