Isolation of recombinant human untagged glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from E. coli producer strain.

The goal of the present work was expression of human glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (hGAPDH) without additional tag constructions in E. coli cells and elaboration of the procedure for purification of untagged hGAPDH from the extract of the producer cells. We present a simple method for purification of untagged hGAPDH including ammonium sulfate fractionation and gel filtration on a G-100 Sephadex column.

Latent periodicity of protein families, identified with the indel-aware algorithm.

Latent amino acid repeats seem to be widespread in genetic sequences and to reflect their structure, function, and evolution. We have recently identified latent periodicity in more than 150 protein families including protein kinases and various nucleotide-binding proteins. The latent repeats in these families were correlated to their structure and evolution.

Identification of amino acid latent periodicity within 94 protein families.

Here, we have applied information decomposition, cyclic profile alignment, and noise decomposition techniques to search for latent repeats within protein families of various functions. We have identified 94 protein families with a family-specific periodicity. In each case, the periodic element was found in greater than 70% of family members.

Latent periodicity of serine-threonine and tyrosine protein kinases and other protein families.

We identified latent periodicity in catalytic domains of approximately 85% of annotated serine-threonine and tyrosine protein kinases. Similar results were obtained for other 22 protein families and domains. We also designed the method of noise decomposition, which is aimed to distinguish between different periodicity types of the same period length.