Microneme protein MIC5 is found in Apicomplexa and expressed as a preproprotein which is proteolytically processed to a proprotein by the signal peptidase before being further processed in a post-Golgi compartment to the mature protein [1]. The struc ...
Microneme protein MIC5 is found in Apicomplexa and expressed as a preproprotein which is proteolytically processed to a proprotein by the signal peptidase before being further processed in a post-Golgi compartment to the mature protein [1]. The structure of MIC5 was determined in Toxoplasma gondii and it revealed that it is a subtilisin propeptide mimic and a potent inhibitor of TgSUB1 [1]. Tis protein adopts a subtilisin-like prodomain structure, which consists of an open-sandwich antiparallel-alpha/antiparallel-beta fold [1].
