SORGOdb: Superoxide Reductase Gene Ontology curated DataBase.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Superoxide reductases (SOR) catalyse the reduction of superoxide anions to hydrogen peroxide and are involved in the oxidative stress defences of anaerobic and facultative anaerobic organisms. Genes encoding SOR were discovered recently and suffer from annotation problems. These genes, named sor, are short and the transfer of annotations from previously characterized neelaredoxin, desulfoferrodoxin, superoxide reductase and rubredoxin oxidase has been heterogeneous. Consequently, many sor remain anonymous or mis-annotated.

Description

SORGOdb is an exhaustive database of SOR that proposes a new classification based on domain architecture. SORGOdb supplies a simple user-friendly web-based database for retrieving and exploring relevant information about the proposed

SUBMITTER: Lucchetti-Miganeh C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3116461 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature