World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

SEQUENCE AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CYTOCHROME OXIDASE IN GRACILARIA EDULIS

M. Vijayalakshmi, Dr. K. Shoba* and Dr. B. Hebsibah Elsie

ABSTRACT

Seaweed or marine algae are the group of plant that live either in marine or brackish water environment. Like the lands seaweed contain photosynthetic pigments and with the help of sunlight and nutrient present in the seawater they photosynthesize and produce food. Green algae they are found in the fresh and marine habitats. Brown algae are exclusively marine forms. The seaweed gracilaria edulis contain the protein cytochrome oxidase. In eukaryotes, the phosphorylating electron transfer chain is located in the inner membrane of their mitochondria and uses oxygen as the terminal sink for electro An excellent summary of the liganding of the metal centers in cytochrome oxidase is provided by the promise site page. The sequences of cytochrome oxidase retrieved from National Cenre for Biotechnology Information in fasta format. The structural homology of cytochrome oxidase were carried out by using bioinformatics tools like prop search, scan prosite and primary structural analysis of target protein done by using protscale tool, secondary structure analysis of cytochrome oxidase were carried out by porter tool and tertiary structure analysis is done through CPH models. Further studies are required to investigate the cytochrome oxidase of for potential pharmacological properties.

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