The Distribution of Lectins across the Phylum Nematoda: A Genome-Wide Search.

ABSTRACT: Nematodes are a very diverse phylum that has adapted to nearly every ecosystem. They have developed specialized lifestyles, dividing the phylum into free-living, animal, and plant parasitic species. Their sheer abundance in numbers and presence in nearly every ecosystem make them the most prevalent animals on earth. In this research nematode-specific profiles were designed to retrieve predicted lectin-like domains from the sequence data of nematode genomes and transcriptomes. Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that play numerous roles inside and outside the cell depending on their sugar specificity and associated protein domains. The sugar-binding properties of the retrieved lectin-like proteins were predicted in silico. Although most research has focused on C-type lectin-like, gale

SUBMITTER: Bauters L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5297725 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature