Reference no: EM131055012
Lab Exercise: Bioinformatics
Blast exercise
The gene DCC is deleted in colorectal cancer and is located on human chromosome 18q21.3. It encodes for a tumor suppressor protein. Expression of the gene is reduced significantly in most colorectal carcinomas. The protein sequence of human DCC has the Refseq accession number of NP_005206.
•Locate the Genbank record for this protein. Note the length of the amino acid sequence.
• Perform a BLASTP search using this protein as the query and Swiss-Prot as the target database. Limit the search to mammalian species only and use BLOSUM62 as the scoring matrix.
• The DCC protein from human is most closely related to the DCC protein from what other mammal?
• What percent identity do they share?
• What is their percent similarity?
• What is the length of the alignment? Were both proteins aligned along their entire length?
• Does the DCC protein contain any low-complexity regions that have been masked out by BLASTP? If so, where?
• Look at the results for protein with Swiss-Prot id of P97798.
• What percent identity does it share with the query?
• What is the alignment length? Is it a global or local alignment for the query and the target?
• Would you say this protein is homologous to the query?
• Look at the results for protein with Swiss-Prot id of O60469.
• What's the %id and length of the alignment? Can you assert homology?
• Is this a global or a local alignment with respect to the query? How about with respect to the target?
• Based on the BLASTP results, can any general observations be made regarding the putative function or cellular role of DCC?
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