Bioinformatics evaluation of the coding gene region of xylan enzyme in some Aspergillus species

Hassanzadeh, Aydin; Tajick Ghanbary, Mohammad Ali

Bioinformatics evaluation of the coding gene region of xylan enzyme in some Aspergillus species

Document Type : Brief Communication

Authors

Aydin Hassanzadeh

Mohammad Ali Tajick Ghanbary

Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University

Abstract

Aspergillus has many species that are important in medicine, agriculture, and various industries. The genus has 446 identified species, which are difficult to distinguish from each other with the use of morphological characteristics. Xylan 1,4-beta-xylosidase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis process of xylose in xylooligosaccharides and is produced by different species of Aspergillus. This research was conducted with the aim of a bioinformatics study of the gene region related to this enzyme and to evaluate its similarities and differences in some Aspergillus species. The results showed that this gene region, due to the presence of conserved motifs, was able to distinguish some species studied in this research.

Keywords

beta-xylosidase enzyme

amino acid sequences

conserved regions

Molecular marker

Subjects

Bioinformatics

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