Identification of New Members of Hydrophobin Family Using Primary Structure Analysis

Background: Hydrophobins are fungal proteins that can turn into amphipathic membranes at hydrophilic/hydrophobic interfaces by self-assembly. The assemblages by Class I hydrophobins are extremely stable and possess the remarkable ability to change the polarity of the surface. One of its most important industrial applications is its usage as paint. Without detailed knowledge of the 3D structure and self-assembly principles of hydrophobins, it is difficult to make significant progress in furthering its research. Results: In order to provide useful information to hydrophobin researchers, we analyzed primary structure of hydrophobins to gain more insight about these proteins. In this paper, we presented an in-depth primary sequence analysis using batch BLAST search of the database, sequence filtering by programming and motif finding by MEME. We used batch BLAST to find similar sequences in the NCBI nr database. Then we used MEME to find out motifs. Based on the newly found motifs and the ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: IMSCCS
• Authors: Kuan Yang, Youping Deng, Chaoyang Zhang, Mohamed O. Elasri
• Keywords: Fungal Proteins, Hydrophobins, IMSCCS 2006, Nr Database