In silico analysis of L-asparaginase from different source organisms

Interdiscip Sci. 2014 Jun;6(2):93-9. doi: 10.1007/s12539-012-0041-0. Epub 2014 Jun 17.

Abstract

L-asparaginases are widely distributed enzymes among plants, fungi and bacteria. This enzyme catalyzes the conversion of l-asparagine to l-aspartate and ammonia and to a lesser extent the formation of l-glutamate from l-glutamine. In the present study, forty-five full-length amino acid sequences of L-asparaginases from bacteria, fungi and plants were collected and subjected to multiple sequence alignment (MSA), domain identification, discovering individual amino acid composition, and phylogenetic tree construction. MSA revealed that two glycine residues were identically found in all analyzed species, two glycine residues were also identically found in all the fungal and bacterial sources and three glycine residues were identically found in all plant and bacterial sources while no residue was identically found in plant and fungal L-asparaginases. Two major sequence clusters were constructed by phylogenetic analysis. One cluster contains eleven species of fungi, twelve species of bacteria, and one species of plant, whereas the other one contains fourteen species of plant, four species of fungi and three species bacteria. The amino acid composition result revealed that the average frequency of amino acid alanine is 10.77 percent that is very high in comparison to other amino acids in all analyzed species.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Motifs
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acids / analysis*
  • Asparaginase / analysis*
  • Bacteria / enzymology*
  • Bacterial Proteins / analysis
  • Computer Simulation
  • Conserved Sequence*
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Fungal Proteins / analysis
  • Fungi / enzymology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny*
  • Plant Proteins / analysis
  • Plants / enzymology*
  • Sequence Alignment

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Fungal Proteins
  • Plant Proteins
  • Asparaginase