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those glycine residues falling in disallowed region
(Fig. 8). The overall results provided the evidences
that the predicted 3-Dimensional structure of
CtGH39 is acceptable and of good quality.
Acknowledgments
SA was supported by PhD fellowship
from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
through Ministry of Human Resource and Development,
Government of India. The research
work in part was supported by a project grant
from Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of
Science and Technology, New Delhi, India to AG.
Fig. 7. Ramachandran plot analysis of CtGH39
using RAMPAGE software(24,25). It shows the
various residues falling in favoured allowed and
disallowed region and the Glycine residues (352
residues are in favoured region, 22 in allowed region
and 10 in disallowed region) so > 90% residues have
allowed conformations.
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