Abstract:
:Plants synthesize amino acids by collateral metabolic pathways using primary elements carbon and oxygen from air, hydrogen from water in soil and nitrogen from soil. Following synthesis, amino acids are immediately used for metabolism, transient storage or transported to the phloem. Different families of transporters have been identified for import of amino acids into plant cells. The first identified amino acid transporter, amino acid permease 1 (AAP1) in Arabidopsis belongs to a family of eight members and transports acidic, neutral, and basic amino acids. Legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen through a symbiotic relationship with root nodules bacteria. Following fixation, nitrogen is reduced to amino acids and is exported via different amino acid transporters. However, information is lacking about the structure of these important classes of amino acid transporter proteins in plant. We have amplified AAP from Phaseolus vulgaris, an economically important leguminous plant grown all over the world, and sequenced. The sequence has been characterized in silico and a three-dimensional structure of AAP has been predicted and validated. The information obtained not only enhances the knowledge about the structure of an amino acid permease gene in P. vulgaris, but will also help in designing protein-ligand studies using this protein as well.
journal_name
Mol Biotechnoljournal_title
Molecular biotechnologyauthors
Chakraborty N,Besra A,Basak Jdoi
10.1007/s12033-020-00240-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-03-01 00:00:00pages
210-217issue
3eissn
1073-6085issn
1559-0305pii
10.1007/s12033-020-00240-4journal_volume
62pub_type
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