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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

dbCAN-PUL: a database of experimentally characterized CAZyme gene clusters and their substrates.

Catherine Ausland, Jinfang Zheng, Haidong Yi, Bowen Yang, Tang Li, Xuehuan Feng, Bo Zheng, Yanbin Yin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Catherine AuslandDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
Jinfang ZhengNebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Haidong YiDepartment of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Bowen YangNebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Tang LiNebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Xuehuan FengNebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Bo ZhengNebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Yanbin YinNebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln · USNorthern Illinois University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Exploration of cloud computing for CAZyme researchR01GM140370 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI YIN, YANBIN · 2021 to 2024
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140370
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PULs (polysaccharide utilization loci) are discrete gene clusters of CAZymes (Carbohydrate Active EnZymes) and other genes that work together to digest and utilize carbohydrate substrates. While PULs have been extensively characterized in Bacteroidetes, there exist PULs from other bacterial phyla, as well as archaea and metagenomes, that remain to be catalogued in a database for efficient retrieval. We have developed an online database dbCAN-PUL (http://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_PUL/) to display experimentally verified CAZyme-containing PULs from literature with pertinent metadata, sequences, and annotation. Compared to other online CAZyme and PUL resources, dbCAN-PUL has the following new features: (i) Batch download of PUL data by target substrate, species/genome, genus, or experimental characterization method; (ii) Annotation for each PUL that displays associated metadata such as substrate(s), experimental characterization method(s) and protein sequence information, (iii) Links to external annotation pages for CAZymes (CAZy), transporters (UniProt) and other genes, (iv) Display of homologous gene clusters in GenBank sequences via integrated MultiGeneBlast tool and (v) An integrated BLASTX service available for users to query their sequences against PUL proteins in dbCAN-PUL. With these features, dbCAN-PUL will be an important repository for CAZyme and PUL research, complementing our other web servers and databases (dbCAN2, dbCAN-seq).

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Databases, GeneticGenetic LociMultigene FamilyBacteroidetesEnzymesMolecular Sequence AnnotationPolysaccharidesSubstrate SpecificityEnzymesPolysaccharides

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PMID32941621
PMCPMC7778981
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