Isolation and Computational Characterization of Glutathione Peroxidase Gene from an Aquatic Fern - Salvinia molesta
| Autor: | Sohini Gupta, Monojit Basu, Sayak Ganguli, Sabdar Rahaman, Protip Basu, Pankaj Kumar Singh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
chemistry.chemical_classification biology Glutathione peroxidase Biodiversity biology.organism_classification 03 medical and health sciences Open reading frame chemistry.chemical_compound 030104 developmental biology chemistry Molecular marker Botany Threatened species Fern Binding site Salvinia molesta |
| Zdroj: | International Letters of Natural Sciences. 51:58-62 |
| ISSN: | 2300-9675 |
| DOI: | 10.56431/p-6y754n |
| Popis: | Pteridophytes and more specifically ferns represent a large but threatened group of plants which often serve as important environmental markers for pollution. Reports regarding stress responses in ferns are rare, apart from a few studies involving the ecological distribution and molecular marker studies. This work isolates a glutathione peroxidase enzyme from an aquatic fern widely distributed in fresh and polluted water bodies adjacent to sources of environmental polluted sources. Further computational analyses were performed to study the structure of the protein encoded by the open reading frame. Results indicate the presence of a large number of binding pockets which serve as important binding sites in the interactions with the cognate ligands. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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