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Peptide-based Identification of Functional Motifs and their Binding Partners
Published on: June 30, 2013
Type 2 diabetes mellitus: phylogenetic motifs for predicting protein functional sites
Ashok Sharma1, Tanuja Rastogi, Meenakshi Bhartiya
1Bioinformatics Division, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, PO CIMAP, Lucknow 226 015, India. ashoksharma@cimap.res.in
Abstract:
Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes, is a medical condition associated with abnormally high levels of glucose (or sugar) in the blood. Keeping this view, we demonstrate the phylogenetic motifs (PMs) identification in type 2 diabetes mellitus very likely corresponding to protein functional sites. In this article, we have identified PMs for all the candidate genes for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Glycine 310 remains conserved for glucokinase and potassium channel KCNJ11. Isoleucine 137 was conserved for insulin receptor and regulatory subunit of a phosphorylating enzyme. Whereas residues valine, leucine, methionine were highly conserved for insulin receptor. Occurrence of proline was very high for calpain 10 gene and glucose transporter.
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