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Chapter 2<br />

end of the crustin-like AMP. Multiple polyadenylation sites were observed in<br />

the present fragment.<br />

2.3.1.4.3. Analysis of WAP domain structure of Crustin-2<br />

As predicted by the ScanProsite program a partial WAP domain<br />

signature exists in the C-terminal region <strong>and</strong> one of the four disulphide core<br />

(DSC) domain was found to be located at Cys 6 -Cys 23 . Since only partial<br />

cDNA fragment <strong>and</strong> only five of the conserved cysteine regions could be<br />

retrieved from the sequence, other locations of the DSC could not be<br />

performed. Searching against the Prosite database, analysis of the crustin-<br />

like AMP revealed the existence of WAP type DSC domain signature. The<br />

expected WAP type 4DSC core domain signature is:<br />

C1-(Xn)-C2-(Xn)-C3-(X5)-C4-(X5)-C5-C6-(X3-5)-C7-(X3-4)-C8<br />

where X is any amino acid residue <strong>and</strong> Xn is a stretch of n residues (Bartlett<br />

et al., 2002).<br />

The partial cDNA sequence of the crustin-like AMP showed the<br />

presence of C4-C8 <strong>and</strong> it followed the same pattern as expected in the WAP<br />

domain except for one extra residue between C7 <strong>and</strong> C8 (C7-(X5)-C8). Similar<br />

case was reported for the crustins isolated from F. chinensis, GenBank<br />

Accession No. DQ097703, DQ097704 (Zhang et al., 2007). The WAP domain<br />

signature of the present crustin-like AMP could be expressed as in Fig. 2.32.<br />

Several other consensus sequences also appear in the 4DSC domain. (1) A<br />

conserved aspartate (D) residue between C3 <strong>and</strong> C4 (2) KCC with C5 <strong>and</strong> C6.<br />

(3) CXXP with C8 (Bartlett et al., 2002).<br />

2.3.1.4.4. Sequence alignment of Crustin-2<br />

BLAST analysis was performed at the nucleotide <strong>and</strong> amino acid level<br />

with other crustins in the GenBank (Table 2.8 <strong>and</strong> 2.9). BLAST analysis<br />

showed that the crustin-like AMP shared maximum similarity with other<br />

crustins of F. paulensis (ABM633611), L. vannamei (AY488493), F. subtilis<br />

(ABO93323), F. brasiliensis (ABQ96197) <strong>and</strong> L. schmitti (ABM63362). The<br />

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