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Volume 8 (1):61-73, 2007.
In Silico identification of antioxidant gene G6PD in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Jitendra N, Prachi S, Alpana V, Shakti S
Bioinformatics Centre, AIB, Amity University,
Noida, UP, INDIA
Jitendra N, Prachi S, Alpana V, Shakti S., In silico identification of Antioxidant gene G6PD in Caenorhabditis elegans, Onl J Bioinform., 8 (1) :
61-73, 2007.
Interest in C. elegans as
a target for drug discovery has grown considerably, particularly in the
pharmaceutical and agro-chemical industries. C. elegans is a proven model
system for investigating neurodegenerative diseases and physiological
processes. Several neurodegenerative disorders have been modeled in C. elegans including Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s
disease, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer. C. elegans
models are also used to screen antioxidants, diabetes, and determining
alterations in gene expression. In humans there are 81 genes known to have
antioxidant properties with 60% similarities in the genome of Caenorhabditis
elegans with Homo sapiens, but only five
genes Prdx-2 Prdx-3, clk-2, clk-1 and gro-1, show antioxidant properties. These findings suggest that other
unknown genes of Caenorhabditis elegans may
have antioxidant properties. Using BLAST we found an antioxidant gene in Homo sapiens with the genome of Caenorhabditis
elegans identified a locus in contig
named B0035 that showed good homology with G6PD gene in Homo sapiens geneID 2539 present on
chromosome number X located at Xq28.
KEY WORDS: Antioxidant, Caenorhabditis elegans,
BLAST, G6PD gene, Contig
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