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9.A.24.1.2
The outer membrane tryptophan-rich sensory protein (TspO) of the TSPO/MBR family of 159 aas and 5 TMSs (Yeliseev et al. 1997; Yeliseev and Kaplan 1999).  The 10 Å cryo electron microscopy structure is known (Korkhov et al. 2010) as are 1.8, 2.4 and 2.5 Å structures solved by x-ray crystallography (Li et al. 2015).  Crystals obtained in the lipidic cubic phase reveal the binding site of an endogenous porphyrin ligand. The three crystal structures reveal a dimer, providing insights into the controversial physiological role of TSPO and how a mutation in the human homologue causes psychiatric disorders and reduced pregnenolone production (Li et al. 2015).

Accession Number:Q3J192
Protein Name:TspO and MBR related proteins
Length:159
Molecular Weight:18107.00
Species:Rhodobacter sphaeroides (strain ATCC 17023 / 2.4.1 / NCIB 8253 / DSM 158) [272943]
Number of TMSs:5
Substrate cholesterol, porphyrin

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MMNMDWALFL TFLAACGAPA TTGALLKPDE WYDNLNKPWW NPPRWVFPLA WTSLYFLMSL 
61:	AAMRVAQLEG SGQALAFYAA QLAFNTLWTP VFFGMKRMAT ALAVVMVMWL FVAATMWAFF 
121:	QLDTWAGVLF VPYLIWATAA TGLNFEAMRL NWNRPEARA