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Article3 Biotech2015

Structure-based functional annotation of hypothetical proteins from Candida dubliniensis: a quest for potential drug targets.

Kundan Kumar, Amresh Prakash, Farah Anjum, Asimul Islam, Faizan Ahmad, Md Imtaiyaz Hassan

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Article in 3 Biotech, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kundan KumarCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 110025, India.
Amresh PrakashCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 110025, India.
Farah AnjumFemale College of Applied Medical Science, Taif University, Al-Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Asimul IslamCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 110025, India.
Faizan AhmadCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 110025, India.
Md Imtaiyaz HassanCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 110025, India. mihassan@jmi.ac.in.
Jamia Millia Islamia · INTaif University · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Candida dubliniensis is an emerging pathogenic yeast in humans and infections are usually restricted to mucosal parts of the body. However, its presence in specimens of immunocompromised individuals, especially in HIV-positive patients, is of major medical concern. There is a large fraction of genomes of C. dubliniensis in the database which are uncharacterized for their biochemical, biophysical, and/or cellular functions, and are identified as hypothetical proteins (HPs). Function annotation of Candida genome is, therefore, essentially required to facilitate the understanding of mechanisms of pathogenesis and biochemical pathways important for selecting novel therapeutic target. Here, we carried out an extensive analysis to explain the functional properties of genome, using available protein structure and function analysis tools. We successfully modeled the structures of eight HPs for which a template with moderate sequence similarity was available in the protein data bank. All modeled structures were analyzed and we found that these proteins may act as transporter, kinase, transferase, ketosteroid, isomerase, hydrolase, oxidoreductase, and binding targets for DNA and RNA. Since these unique HPs of Candida showed no homologs in humans, these proteins are expected to be a potential target for future antifungal therapy.

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Candida dubliniensisDomains and motifsFunctional annotationFunctional genomicsHomology modelingHypothetical proteinSequence analysis

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PMID28324558
PMCPMC4522726
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