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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2016

ProClaT, a new bioinformatics tool for in silico protein reclassification: case study of DraB, a protein coded from the draTGB operon in Azospirillum brasilense.

Elisa Terumi Rubel, Roberto Tadeu Raittz, Nilson Antonio da Rocha Coimbra, Michelly Alves Coutinho Gehlen, Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Elisa Terumi RubelLaboratory of Bioinformatics, Professional and Technological Education Sector, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Roberto Tadeu RaittzLaboratory of Bioinformatics, Professional and Technological Education Sector, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Nilson Antonio da Rocha CoimbraLaboratory of Bioinformatics, Professional and Technological Education Sector, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Michelly Alves Coutinho GehlenLaboratory of Bioinformatics, Professional and Technological Education Sector, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Fábio de Oliveira PedrosaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. fpedrosa@ufpr.br.
Universidade Federal do Paraná · BR

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Abstract

backgroundAzopirillum brasilense is a plant-growth promoting nitrogen-fixing bacteria that is used as bio-fertilizer in agriculture. Since nitrogen fixation has a high-energy demand, the reduction of N

resultsA deep in silico analysis of the product of draB was undertaken aiming at suggesting its possible function and involvement with DraT and DraG in the regulation of nitrogenase activity in A. brasilense. In this work, we present a new artificial intelligence strategy for protein classification, named ProClaT. The features used by the pattern recognition model were derived from the primary structure of the DraB homologous proteins, calculated by a ProClaT internal algorithm. ProClaT was applied to this case study and the results revealed that the A. brasilense draB gene codes for a protein highly similar to the nitrogenase associated NifO protein of Azotobacter vinelandii.

conclusionsThis tool allowed the reclassification of DraB/NifO homologous proteins, hypothetical, conserved hypothetical and those annotated as putative arsenate reductase, ArsC, as NifO-like. An analysis of co-occurrence of draB, draT, draG and of other nif genes was performed, suggesting the involvement of draB (nifO) in nitrogen fixation, however, without the definition of a specific function.

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Azospirillum brasilenseBacterial ProteinsComputational BiologyGenes, BacterialNitrogenaseNitrogen FixationOperonBacterial ProteinsNitrogenaseArtificial neural networksAzospirillum brasilenseBiological nitrogen fixationNitrogenaseNitrogenase associated NifO proteinOperon draTGBProtein classification

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