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An in-silico insight into the characteristics of β-propeller phytase

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Phytase is an enzyme that is found extensively in the plant kingdom and in some species of bacteria and fungi. This paper identifies and analyses the available full length sequences of β-propeller phytases (BPP). BPP was chosen due to its potential applicability in the field of aquaculture. The sequences were obtained from the Uniprot database and subject to various online bioinformatics tools to elucidate the physio-chemical characteristics, secondary structures and active site compositions of BPP. Protparam and SOPMA were used to analyse the physiochemical and secondary structure characteristics, while the Expasy online modelling tool and CASTp were used to model the 3-D structure and identify the active sites of the BPP sequences. The amino acid compositions of the four sequences were compared and composed in a graphical format to identify similarities and highlight the potentially important amino acids that form the active site of BPP. This study aims to analyse BPP and contribute to the clarification of the molecular mechanism involved in the enzyme activity of BPP and contribute in part to the possibility of constructing a synthetic version of BPP.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, A-10, Sec 62, Noida, India

    Akash Mathew, Anukriti Verma & Smriti Gaur

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Mathew, A., Verma, A. & Gaur, S. An in-silico insight into the characteristics of β-propeller phytase. Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci 6, 133–139 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12539-013-0010-2

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