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A threshold of 0.67 \u00c5 RMSD for all atoms of corresponding residues ensures inclusion of only highly significant similarities comparable with those observed for identical catalytic residues in homologues. Many tertiary packing motifs are shared among the three classical Rossmannoid folds, as well as thousands of other motifs that occur in at least two distinct folds. Merging of neighboring packing motifs facilitated recognition of larger, recurrent substructures or cores. The anti-codon-binding domain of an archeal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (aaRS) was discovered to possess a packed core in which eight identical amino acid residues are within 0.55 \u00c5 RMSD of the comparable structure in the FixJ receiver, a member of the Rossmannoid family that also includes the CheY signaling protein and flavodoxin-like proteins. Further investigation identified close variants of this core in five other Rossmannoid folds, including a functionally relevant core in Class Ia aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Although it is possible that the two essentially identical cores in the ProRS anti-codon-binding domain and the FixJ receiver converged to the same structure, the consensus core obtained from the structural and sequence alignments suggests that all the implicated protein folds descended from a simpler ancestral protein in which this core provided nucleotide binding and proto-allosteric functions.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: Programs are available at http:\/\/staff.vbi.vt.edu\/cammer\/snapp\/download\/<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Implementation: Programs were written in Perl and c and run under Linux.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0cammer@vbi.vt.edu<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq039","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,2,4]],"date-time":"2010-02-04T01:55:22Z","timestamp":1265248522000},"page":"709-714","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":38,"title":["Six Rossmannoid folds, including the Class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, share a partial core with the anti-codon-binding domain of a Class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Stephen","family":"Cammer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Washington Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061 and 2 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA"}]},{"suffix":"Jr","given":"Charles W.","family":"Carter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Washington Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061 and 2 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,2,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012508000489600_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"392","DOI":"10.1016\/S0959-440X(02)00334-2","article-title":"Trends in protein evolution inferred from sequence and structure analysis","volume":"12","author":"Aravind","year":"2002","journal-title":"Curr. 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