Sorting assembly machinery 50 kDa subunit (SAM50) is a 484-residue protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain ATCC 204508 / S288c). This is its AlphaFold structure prediction, created 1 Aug 2025. UniProt accession: P53969.
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The mean pLDDT of this model is 85.9 (confident overall). pLDDT is AlphaFold's per-residue confidence score from 0 to 100. In MolViewer, choose the B-factor color scheme to color the model by pLDDT, because AlphaFold stores it in the B-factor column.
| pLDDT band | Meaning | Share of residues |
|---|---|---|
| Above 90 | Very high: backbone and side chains are usually accurate | 61% |
| 70 to 90 | Confident: backbone generally right | 26% |
| 50 to 70 | Low: treat with caution | 8% |
| Below 50 | Very low: often disordered regions | 5% |
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Component of the mitochondrial outer membrane sorting assembly machinery (SAM or TOB) complex, which is required for the sorting of proteins with complicated topology, such as beta-barrel proteins, to the mitochondrial outer membrane after import by the TOM complex
Component of the mitochondrial outer membrane sorting assembly machinery (SAM or TOB) complex, which at least consists of SAM35, SAM37 and SAM50 (PubMed:14570913, PubMed:14685243, PubMed:15590639). Associates with the mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system (MICOS) complex (also known as MINOS or MitOS complex) (By similarity)
Mitochondrion outer membrane
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