Recent trends in food industry focus on utilization of fruit processing waste and by-products as novel ingredients due to their nutritional *** seed is one such novel ingredient that can find application as functional...
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Recent trends in food industry focus on utilization of fruit processing waste and by-products as novel ingredients due to their nutritional *** seed is one such novel ingredient that can find application as functional ingredient in food,nutraceutical and pharmaceutical *** existing studies suggest that apple seed is a rich source of amino acids,fatty acids and polyphenolic *** review discusses the nutritional and phytochemical profile as well as biological activities exhibited by the apple *** also highlights the current application of apple seed in food,pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries along with the safety aspects considering the presence of *** apple seed meal,extracts or seed oil as novel ingredient can find various industrial applications given their dense nutritional *** their functionality,rigorous and extensive research is required to promote its usage at industrial level for harnessing the benefits of apple seeds.
The function of a protein molecule is greatly influenced by its three-dimensional (3D) structure and therefore structure prediction will help identify its biological function. We have updated Sequence, Motif and Str...
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The function of a protein molecule is greatly influenced by its three-dimensional (3D) structure and therefore structure prediction will help identify its biological function. We have updated Sequence, Motif and Structure (SMS), the database of structurally rigid peptide fragments, by combining amino acid sequences and the corre- sponding 3D atomic coordinates of non-redundant (25%) and redundant (90%) protein chains available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). SMS 2.0 provides information pertaining to the peptide fragments of length 5-14 resi- dues. The entire dataset is divided into three categories, namely, same sequence motifs having similar, intermedi- ate or dissimilar 3D structures. Further, options are provided to facilitate structural superposition using the pro- gram structural alignment of multiple proteins (STAMP) and the popular JAVA plug-in (Jmol) is deployed for visualization. In addition, functionalities are provided to search for the occurrences of the sequence motifs in other structural and sequence databases like PDB, Genome Database (GDB), Protein Information Resource (PIR) and Swiss-Prot. The updated database along with the search engine is available over the World Wide Web through the following URL http://***/sms/.
Analysis of protein sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (Mtb H37Rv) was performed to identify homopeptide repeat- containing proteins (HRCPs). Functional annotation of the HRCPs showed that they are pr...
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Analysis of protein sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (Mtb H37Rv) was performed to identify homopeptide repeat- containing proteins (HRCPs). Functional annotation of the HRCPs showed that they are preferentially involved in cellular metabolism. Furthermore, these homopeptide repeats might play some specific roles in protein-protein interaction. Repeat length differences among Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes were calculated in order to identify the conservation of the repeats in these divergent kingdoms. From the results, it was evident that these repeats have a higher degree of conservation in Bacteria and Archaea than in Eukaryotes. In addi- tion, there seems to be a direct correlation between the repeat length difference and the degree of divergence between the species. Our study supports the hypothesis that the presence of homopeptide repeats influences the rate of evolution of the protein sequences in which they are embedded. Thus, homopeptide repeat may have structural, functional and evolutionary implications on proteins.
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