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Functional Protein Analysis of Hypertriglyceridemia: A Bioinformatic Approach

V. S. Rao*, S. K. Das, V. J. Rao

Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University, Orissa-760007, India
*Corresponding author: Prof.V. Srinivasa Rao,Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University,
Orissa-760007, India,
Email:akrgvsr@gmail.com
Received May 22, 2008; Accepted May 22, 2008; Published May 24, 2008
Citation: VS Rao, Sussant KD, VJ Rao (2008) Functional Protein Analysis of Hypertriglyceridemia: A Bioinformatic Approach. J Proteomics Bioinform 1: 098-103. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000015
Copyright: © 2008 VS Rao, etal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract

Hypertriglyceridemia is defined as an abnormal concentration of triglycerides in blood and is a commonly encountered lipid abnormality frequently associated with other lipid and metabolic derangements. Prolonged hypertriglyceridemia may produce neuropathological and abnormal metabolic changes particularly in peripheral sensory nerves. In the present study, we evaluated the role of several proteins that are likely to be involved in hypertriglyceridemia by employing multiple sequence alignment using ClastalW tool and constructed a phylogenic tree using functional protein sequences extracted from NCBI. The phylogeny tree was constructed with Neighbor Joining Algorithm using bioinformatic principles and applications. The association of apolipoprotein C-II, proinsulin, fatty acid binding protein, sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor, angiotensin I converting enzyme, lipin 1, sterile co-A desaturase, cholesteryl ester transfer protein, and other apolipoproteins in hypertriglyceridemia suggests that a close interaction between these proteins may exist that may underlie the pathogenesis of hypertriglyceridemia. The results of the present bioinformatics study indicate a predominant involvement of apolipoprotein C-II, proinsulin in comparison to other proteins in the pathogenesis of hypertriglyceridemia.

 
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