Bioinformatics Analysis of Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase Family from Artemisia

菊科植物青蒿细胞色素P450基因家族分析（英文）

Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone endoperoxide derived from Artemisia annua L, forms the basis of the most important medicines for treating malaria in use today. In the study, a total of 41 full genes coded cytochrome P450 monooxygenases were identified from NCBI. These genes were classified into 11 families in 3 gene clans according to sequence similarity. One of the first interesting features in sequence alignment was that the CYP82, CYP83 and CYP716 families specific in Arabidopsis genome were present in Artemisia, and the CYP92 specific in rice was also present in Artemisia. The physical and chemical properties and structure characteristics of the identified P450s were studied. The results showed their secondary structures were very similar and their senior structures mainly contained α-helix.

菊科植物青蒿由于体内含有青蒿素-目前世界公认的抗疟疾首选药物,而倍受科学家的关注。本研究从NCBI中下载到青蒿P450全部全长序列,经过一致性鉴定,共获得41个P450单加氧酶基因。根据P450标准命名规则,这41个基因分布在3个基因簇的11个家族中。与水稻、拟南芥P450比对发现,拟南芥中所特有的CYP82、CYP83和CYP716中有3个家族在青蒿中出现,而水稻特有的CYP92家族在双子叶植物青蒿中也存在。对青蒿P450蛋白的理化性质和结构特性进行了分析,次级结构分析表明,青蒿P450蛋白二级结构极其相似,其高级结构以α-螺旋为主。