Amino Acid Features of P1B-ATPase Heavy Metal Transporters Enabling Small Numbers of Organisms to Cope with Heavy Metal Pollution

被引:25
作者
Ashrafi, E. [1 ]
Alemzadeh, A. [1 ]
Ebrahimi, M. [2 ]
Ebrahimie, E. [1 ]
Dadkhodaei, N. [3 ]
机构
[1] Shiraz Univ, Coll Agr, Dept Crop Prod & Plant Breeding, Shiraz, Iran
[2] Qom Univ, Green Res Ctr, Bioinformat Res Grp, Qom, Iran
[3] Univ Saarland, Dept Informat, Saarbrucken, Germany
来源
BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOLOGY INSIGHTS | 2011年 / 5卷
关键词
environment; heavy metals; transporter; ATPase pumps; modeling; bioinformatics;
D O I
10.4137/BBI.S6206
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Phytoremediation refers to the use of plants for extraction and detoxification of pollutants, providing a new and powerful weapon against a polluted environment. In some plants, such as Thlaspi spp, heavy metal ATPases are involved in overall metal ion homeostasis and hyperaccumulation. P1B-ATPases pump a wide range of cations, especially heavy metals, across membranes against their electrochemical gradients. Determination of the protein characteristics of P1B-ATPases in hyperaccumulator plants provides a new opportuntity for engineering of phytoremediating plants. In this study, using diverse weighting and modeling approaches, 2644 protein characteristics of primary, secondary, and tertiary structures of P1B-ATPases in hyperaccumulator and nonhyperaccumulator plants were extracted and compared to identify differences between proteins in hyperaccumulator and nonhyperaccumulator pumps. Although the protein characteristics were variable in their weighting, tree and rule induction models; glycine count, frequency of glutaminevaline, and valine-phenylalanine count were the most important attributes highlighted by 10, five, and four models, respectively. In addition, a precise model was built to discriminate P1B-ATPases in different organisms based on their structural protein features. Moreover, -reliable models for prediction of the hyperaccumulating activity of unknown P1B-ATPase pumps were developed. Uncovering important structural features of hyperaccumulator pumps in this study has provided the knowledge required for future modification and -engineering of these pumps by techniques such as site-directed mutagenesis.
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页码:59 / 82
页数:24
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