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<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 6 Issue 1</issue_number>
<issue_period>2015 (January - March)</issue_period>
<title>IN SILICO HOMOLOGY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF PHOSPHATASE GENES CLONED FROM ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS </title>
<abstract>This research work reports the homology modeling of acid phosphatase, phytase and alkaline phosphatase genes of  lessThan i greaterThan Aspergillus fumigatus lessThan /i greaterThan . Since soil is a reservoir for the isolation of such fungi, soil microbes were screened for phosphatases and a strain of  lessThan i greaterThan Aspergillus fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan was isolated. A typical fungal colony was isolated after serial dilution, identified as  lessThan i greaterThan A. fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan was used in this study. On molecular identification, the strains identified on the basis of morphological and physiological features were confirmed to belong to  lessThan i greaterThan A. fumigatus lessThan /i greaterThan . Their ITS1-ITS4 sequences were up to 99% homologous to reference strains of  lessThan i greaterThan A. fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan from the GenBank. Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and phytase cDNAs were synthesized from  lessThan i greaterThan Aspergillus fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan RNA by PCR reactions using primers (designed from published NCBI sequences) with reverse transcriptase. This resulted in amplicons corresponding to the predicted gene size of the respective enzymes. They were cloned into bacteria and were subjected to automated DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing after plasmid isolation revealed that the entire nucleotide sequence of the alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase and phytase genes from genomic DNA of  lessThan i greaterThan A. fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan was 99.9 % similar to NCBI sequences of  lessThan i greaterThan Aspergillus fumigatus.  lessThan /i greaterThan The closest homolog to alkaline phosphatase gene of  lessThan i greaterThan A. fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan was  lessThan i greaterThan Neosartorya fumigata  lessThan /i greaterThan and  lessThan i greaterThan Neosartorya fumigata.  lessThan /i greaterThan The closest homolog to acid phosphatase gene of  lessThan i greaterThan A. fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan was  lessThan i greaterThan Neosartorya fischeri.  lessThan /i greaterThan The closest homolog to phytase gene  lessThan i greaterThan of A. fumigatus  lessThan /i greaterThan was  lessThan i greaterThan Neosartorya fumigata lessThan /i greaterThan .</abstract>
<authors>NEELAKANTAN SURESH AND ARUNAVA DAS</authors>
<keywords>Alkaline phosphatase, Acid phosphatase, Phytase, Homology modelling, In silico</keywords>
<pages>553-566</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
