Annotation of gene sequence and protein structure of brinjal EDS1

Enhanced Disease Susceptibility1 (EDS1) is a nucleo-cytoplasmic protein, known to be a key regulator of plant basal defense and effector-triggered immunity. Sequence of a single copy brinjal EDS1 gene (SmEDS1) was mined from draft brinjal genome assembly. The extracted sequence was found to be incomplete and polished with the help of transcriptome sequence data. Full-length SmEDS1 gene is 4.5kb long having three exons that coded for 1.8kb mRNA. SmEDS1 protein is a 602 amino acid long protein consisting of Lipase3 and EP domain regions. Predicted tertiary structure of SmEDS1 using homology modelling had a mass of 68.8kD and was made of 10 strands, 26 alpha helices, five 310 helices and 43 beta turns. Phylogenetic analysis based on protein sequence grouped the species in clades defined by botanical family suggesting that EDS1 protein has evolved through the speciation process. Phylogenetic tree based on EDS1 structures grouped Solanum species of American origin (tomato, wild tomato and potato) together but brinjal EDS1 (Asiatic origin) occupied a unique position. In silico information generated in this study is expected to be the first step toward cloning and expression analysis of SmEDS1 gene.