Hidden Markov Models based search in combination with structural bioinformatics pipeline leads to the identification of DAF-12 distant orthologous in Meloidogyne incognita
Claudio David Schuster, Vanessa J. Santillán, Rafael Betanzos San Juan, Ezequiel Jorge Sosa, Cristian R. Rodriguez, Florencia Kronberg, Eliana Rosa Munarriz, Gerardo Burton, Olga Castro, Carlos Pablo Modenutti
The paper identifies DAF-12 orthologs in Meloidogyne incognita using HMM-based sequence search and structural bioinformatics, showing conserved ligand binding site despite low sequence similarity.
bioRxiv · Jul 19, 2023 · PreprintBioinformatics