Bioinformatics Characterization of Potential New Beta-Glucuronidase from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Streptococcus</Emphasis> <Emphasis Type="Italic">equi</Emphasis> subsp. <Emphasis Type="Italic">zooepidemicus</Emphasis> |
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Authors: | Ján Krahulec Tomá? Szemes Jana Krahulcová |
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Institution: | 1.CPN spol. s r.o,Dolní Dobrou?,Czech Republic;2.Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Nature Sciences,Comennius University,Bratislava,Slovakia |
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Abstract: | Recently, the gene coding for a new beta-glucuronidase enzyme has been identified and cloned from Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus. This is another report of a beta-glucuronidase gene cloned from bacterial species. The ORF Finder analysis of a sequenced
DNA (EMBL, AJ890474) revealed a presence of 1,785 bp large ORF potentially coding for a 594 aa protein. Three protein families
in (Pfam) domains were identified using the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) analysis: Pfam 02836, glycosyl hydrolases family
2, triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) barrel domain; Pfam 02837, glycosyl hydrolases family 2, sugar binding domain; and Pfam
00703, glycosyl hydrolases family 2, immunoglobulin-like beta-sandwich domain. To gain more insight into the enzymatic activity,
the domains were used to generate a bootstrapped unrooted distance tree using ClustalX. The calculated distances for two domains,
TIM barrel domain, and sugar-binding domain were comparable and exhibited similarity pattern based on function and thus being
in accordance with recently published works confirming beta-glucuronidase activity of the enzyme. The calculated distances
and the tree arrangement in the case of centrally positioned immonoglobulin-like beta-sandwich domain were somewhat higher
when compared to other two domains but clustering with other beta-glucuronidases was rather clear. Nine proteins, including
beta-glucuronidases, beta-galactosidase, and mannosidase were selected for multiple alignment and subsequent distance tree
creation. |
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