Current Trends in <strong>Biotechnology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong> Vol. 3 (2) 210-218, <strong>April</strong> 2009. ISSN 0973-8916 those glycine residues falling in disallowed region (Fig. 8). The overall results provided the evidences that the predicted 3-Dimensional structure <strong>of</strong> CtGH39 is acceptable <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> good quality. Acknowledgments SA was supported by PhD fellowship from Indian Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology Guwahati through Ministry <strong>of</strong> Human Resource <strong>and</strong> Development, Government <strong>of</strong> India. The research work in part was supported by a project grant from Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Biotechnology</strong>, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Science <strong>and</strong> Technology, New Delhi, India to AG. Fig. 7. Ramach<strong>and</strong>ran plot analysis <strong>of</strong> CtGH39 using RAMPAGE s<strong>of</strong>tware(24,25). It shows the various residues falling in favoured allowed <strong>and</strong> disallowed region <strong>and</strong> the Glycine residues (352 residues are in favoured region, 22 in allowed region <strong>and</strong> 10 in disallowed region) so > 90% residues have allowed conformations. 215 References 1. Johnson, E.A., Sakajoh, M., Halliwell, G., Madia, A. <strong>and</strong> Demain, A.L. (1982). Saccharification <strong>of</strong> complex cellulosic substrates by cellulase system from Clostridium thermocellum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43, 1125–1132. 2. Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZY) link (http://www.cazy.org/fam/acc_GH.html). 3. Henrissat, B. (1991). A classification <strong>of</strong> glycosyl hydrolases based on amino-acid sequence similarities. Biochem. J., 280, 309- 316. 4. Davies, G. <strong>and</strong> Henrissat, B. (1995). Structures <strong>and</strong> mechanisms <strong>of</strong> glycosyl hydrolases. Structure, 3, 853-857. 5. Henrissat, B. <strong>and</strong> Bairoch, A. (1993). New families in the classification <strong>of</strong> glycosyl hydrolases based on amino-acid sequence similarities. Biochem. J., 293, 781-788. 6. Lairson, L.L., Henrissat, B., Davies, G.J. <strong>and</strong> Withers, S.G. (2008). Glycosyltransferases: Structures, Functions <strong>and</strong> Mechanisms. Ann. Rev. Biochem., 77, 521-555. 7. Henrissat B. <strong>and</strong> Bairoch A. (1996). Updating the sequence-based classification <strong>of</strong> glycosyl hydrolases. Biochem. J., 316, 695-696. 8. Lynd, L.R, Weimer, P.J., van Zyl, W.H. <strong>and</strong> Pretorious, I.S. (2002). Microbial cellulose utilization: fundamentals <strong>and</strong> biotechnology. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 66, 506-577. 9. Sánchez, R. <strong>and</strong> Sali, A. (2000). Comparative protein structure modeling: Introduction <strong>and</strong> practical examples with MODELLER. In: Protein Structure Prediction: Methods <strong>and</strong> Protocols. Ed: D. M. Webster. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 97-129. Homology modeling <strong>of</strong> family 39 glycoside hydrolase
Current Trends in <strong>Biotechnology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong> Vol. 3 (2) 210-218, <strong>April</strong> 2009. ISSN 0973-8916 217 Fig. 8. Ramach<strong>and</strong>ran plot analysis <strong>of</strong> CtGH39 for general, gly, Pre-Pro, Pro using RAMPAGE (24,25). The conformations <strong>and</strong> location <strong>of</strong> each <strong>of</strong> the above is shown in individual plots having heading as general, Glycine, pre-Pro <strong>and</strong> Pro. Ahmed et al