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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-24
pubmed:abstractText
Glutathione acts as a protein disulphide reductant, which detoxifies herbicides by conjugation, either spontaneously or by the activity of one of a number of glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), and regulates gene expression in response to environmental stress and pathogen attack. GSTs play roles in both normal cellular metabolisms as well as in the detoxification of a wide variety of xenobiotic compounds, and they have been intensively studied with regard to herbicide detoxification in plants. A newly discovered plant GST subclass has been implicated in numerous stress responses, including those arising from pathogen attack, oxidative stress and heavy-metal toxicity. In addition, plants GSTs play a role in the cellular response to auxins and during the normal metabolism of plant secondary products like anthocyanins and cinnamic acid. The present work involves two in silico analytical approaches-general secondary structure prediction studies of the proteins and detailed signature pattern studies of some selected GST classes in Arabdiopsis thaliana, mustard, maize and bread wheat by standard Bioinformatics tools; structure prediction tools; signature pattern tools; and the evolutionary trends were analyzed by ClustalW. For this purpose, sequences were obtained from standard databases. The work reveals that these proteins are mainly alpha helical in nature with specific signature pattern similar to phosphokinase C, tyrosine kinase and casein kinase II proteins, which are closely related to plant oxidative stress. This study aims to comprehend the relationship of GST gene family and plant oxidative stress with respect to certain specific conserved motifs, which may help in future studies for screening of biomodulators involved in plant stress metabolism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1573-4919
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
336
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
109-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Arabidopsis, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Computational Biology, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Databases, Protein, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Expert Systems, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Glutathione Transferase, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Herbicides, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Metabolic Detoxication, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Mustard Plant, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Oryza sativa, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Oxidative Stress, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Plants, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Software, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:20135200-Triticum
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
GST profile expression study in some selected plants: in silico approach.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biotechnology, Heritage Institute of Technology, Chowbaga Road, Anandapur. P.O. East Kolkata Township, Kolkata, 700107, India. somabanerjee2005@gmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study