Description : (at1g08490 : 132.0) Chloroplastic NifS-like protein that can catalyze the conversion of cysteine into alanine and elemental sulfur (S(0)) and of selenocysteine into alanine and elemental Se (Se(0)). Overexpression enhances selenium tolerance and accumulation.; chloroplastic NIFS-like cysteine desulfurase (CPNIFS); FUNCTIONS IN: transaminase activity, selenocysteine lyase activity, cysteine desulfurase activity; INVOLVED IN: iron incorporation into metallo-sulfur cluster, response to selenium ion, sulfur metabolic process, selenium metabolic process; LOCATED IN: chloroplast; EXPRESSED IN: 23 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Pyridoxal phosphate-dependent transferase, major domain (InterPro:IPR015424), Aminotransferase, class V/Cysteine desulfurase (InterPro:IPR000192), Cysteine desulfurase, SufS (InterPro:IPR010970), Pyridoxal phosphate-dependent transferase, major region, subdomain 1 (InterPro:IPR015421); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: nitrogen fixation S (NIFS)-like 1 (TAIR:AT5G65720.1); Has 22660 Blast hits to 22653 proteins in 2897 species: Archae - 350; Bacteria - 15408; Metazoa - 379; Fungi - 404; Plants - 268; Viruses - 1; Other Eukaryotes - 5850 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 264.0) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 6 h after dark (SPM: 0.51, entropy: 1.92, tau: 0.26)