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Current Trends in <strong>Biotechnology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong><br />

Vol. 3 (2) 210-218, <strong>April</strong> 2009. ISSN 0973-8916<br />

Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree generated (showing distance)<br />

using BLASTp shows that CtGH39 comes from<br />

dockerin type cellulosome enzyme complex from<br />

Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405 <strong>and</strong> a hypothetical<br />

protein from Thermotoga petrophila must be<br />

its closest neighbour.<br />

213<br />

stereothermophilus (1w91), Thermoanaero<br />

bacterium saccharolyticum (1uhv) <strong>and</strong> Bacillus<br />

stereothermophilus (1qw9) (Fig. 2). High<br />

consensus portions shown in red are identical<br />

amino acids in all 5 sequences (Fig. 2). Those<br />

regions represented in blue are the conserved<br />

amino acids at least 4 out <strong>of</strong> 5 sequences <strong>and</strong> the<br />

neutral portions are shown in black (Fig. 2).<br />

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is <strong>of</strong>ten used<br />

to assess sequence conservation <strong>of</strong> protein<br />

domains, tertiary <strong>and</strong> secondary structures <strong>and</strong><br />

even individual amino acids or nucleotides (17).<br />

The MSA results <strong>of</strong> CtGH39 using HHpred <strong>and</strong><br />

MultAlin (17,18) showed the conserved regions<br />

that are present among the closely matching<br />

sequences <strong>and</strong> these sequences helped in further<br />

model building or structure prediction (Fig. 2).<br />

Fig. 2. Multiple sequence alignment analysis <strong>of</strong> CtGH39 using ClustalX. Multiple sequence alignment<br />

analysis <strong>of</strong> CtGH39 using MultAlin <strong>and</strong> HHpred showed above 90% similarities with protein sequences <strong>of</strong><br />

Thermotoga petriphila (Hypothetical protein), Geobacillus stereothermophilus (1w91),<br />

Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum (1uhv) <strong>and</strong> Bacillus stereothermophilus (1qw9) from the PDB<br />

database. High consensus portions shown in red (>90%) are identical amino acids in all 5 sequences. Blue<br />

regions (>50%) are the conserved amino acids in at least 4 out <strong>of</strong> 5 sequences <strong>and</strong> the neutral portions are<br />

shown in black.<br />

Ahmed et al

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