3.A.2.1.13
F-type ATPase/ATP synthase of T. brucei.  The F1 domain has been studied and examined in 3-dimentions at low resolution, and in addition to the 5 usual subunits, it has an extra one, called p18 of 188 aas (UniProt acc # P0DPG4). p18 is present in three copies per complex. Suppression of expression of p18 affected in vitro growth of both the insect and infectious mammalian forms of T. brucei. It also reduced the levels of monomeric and multimeric F-ATPase complexes and diminished the in vivo hydrolytic activity of the enzyme (Gahura et al. 2018). The p18 subunit, identified only in the euglenozoa, associates with the external surface of each of the three α-subunits. Subunit p18 is a pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein with three PPRs and appears to have no function in the catalytic mechanism of the enzyme (Montgomery et al. 2018). Inhibitors include furamidine (DB75), Pafuramidine (DB289), DB820 and DB829 (Meier et al. 2018).  Another protein, subunit 9 of 118 aas may also play a role in its function.