Allantoicase  : Jelly roll motif

Cartoons view of yeast allantoicase, a 2 domain protein. It catalyzes the conversion of allantoate into ureidoglycolate and urea, one of the final steps in the degradation of purines to urea.

The jelly roll motif is found in the red, C-terminal domain.

These are the 8 strands that make the motif. Strands one and eight are very short and do not interact much with the other strands.

1sg3 (PDB)

Leulliot, N., Quevillon-Cheruel, S., Sorel, I., Graille, M., Meyer, P., Liger, D., Blondeau, K., Janin, J., Van Tilbeurgh, H.: Crystal Structure of Yeast Allantoicase Reveals a Repeated Jelly Roll Motif J.Biol.Chem. 279 pp. 23447 (2004) (PubMed)