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Phage therapy is influenced by:

Phage therapy is influenced by:

Country :
the epidemiological situation is different from country to country in terms of circulating bacteria and bacteriophages. Example: a lytic phages from Italy may be no active on the same bacteria (genus and species) isolated from another country and vice versa.
Chronolability
Mutation rate
Phenotypical delay
Phage cocktail
My point of view

From Wikipedia


If the target host* of a phage therapy treatment is not
an animal the term "
biocontrol" (as in phage-mediated biocontrol of bacteria) is usually employed, rather than "phage therapy".

"In silico"

From:"Genomics,Proteomics and Clinical Bacteriology", N.Woodford and Alan P.Johnson

Phrase that emphasizes the fact that many molecular biologists spend increasing amounts of their time in front of a computer screen, generating hypotheses that can subsequently be tested and (hopefully) confirmed in the laboratory.

Saturday, 16 August 2014

D29p02



CDS :    1327-2106, 780 bp,  : predicted 28.8 kD protein (259 Aa)

misc_feature: 1570-1815, 246 bp, Protein of unknown function (DUF3626); Region: DUF3626; pfam12294    
 
By Snapgen software:
                                                     


By Artemis software:


Protein of unknown function (DUF3626)
"This family of proteins is found in bacteria. Proteins in this family are typically between 294 and 374 amino acids in length".

 misc_feature Aa sequence:


Aa sequence (259 Aa):

Statistics on the protein properties:


-No helix-turn-helix nucleic acid binding motifs
 
-No prediction of transmembrane segments
in protein 


- No PEST motif as potential proteolytic cleavage site 

- N0 site of cleavage between a signal sequence and the "mature exported protein"

Virtual 2D-gel:



Is there a relationship with gp12? :

CDS:            6606-7370,765bp, gp12 :predicted 28.5 kD protein (254 Aa)
misc_feature: 6726-6983,258bp,Cutinase; Region: Cutinase; pfam01083


Statistics on the protein properties:







Cutinase and cutin is the substrate




1- CUTINASE_1PS00155; Cutinase, serine active site  (PATTERN)

 Consensus pattern:
P-x-[STA]-x-[LIV]-[IVT]-x-[GS]-G-Y-S-[QL]-G
S is an active site residue


2- CUTINASE_2PS00931Cutinase, aspartate and histidine active sites  (PATTERN)

 Consensus pattern:
C-x(3)-D-x-[IV]-C-x-G-[GST]-x(2)-[LIVM]-x(2,3)-H
D and H are active site residues



My contribution:

by Artemis software I download the  Fasta sequence of CDS of gp12 and by Jemboss software  I analyse the Aa sequence in search for these consensus patterns:






There is  in gp12 only one consensus pattern: PYAX5GYSQG is inside  of the cutinase region and gp12 is the Lysin B of Mycobacteriophage D29.

 In the hypothetical protein from D29p02:
 



There is not consensus for cutinase activity but there is one motif for a nuclease activity:D X5 (DAK)

Deduction
The hypothetical protein from D29p02 is not correlated  to the gp12 protein.