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All posts created by brueschhoff

| posted 28 Mar, 2024 15:58
I have a question. In DoobyDoo, Feature 65 (on Phamerator), stop 45445, has some of the features of a RecA, but not all of them. Therefore, I do not believe we should call this a RecA recombinase. On this powerpoint, our cluster (DV), falls under the category of not having a RecA recombinase but calling it anyway. Does this mean that we should not call it a RecA recombinase, or that we should call it a RecA, even though it is not a true RecA recombinase?

Thank you,
Beth Rueschhoff
Indiana University Southeast
Posted in: SMART Function InvestigationsRecA requirements
| posted 23 Feb, 2024 16:36
Thank you so much to both of you for your help. Very interesting!
Posted in: Functional AnnotationMetalloprotease without HEXXH motif?
| posted 22 Feb, 2024 15:59
Sure, Sorry about that! We are annotating DoobyDoo and the phamerator feature number is 10. The stop codon is 8910.
Posted in: Functional AnnotationMetalloprotease without HEXXH motif?
| posted 21 Feb, 2024 15:31
Greetings,

We are investigating the function of a protein with sequence: MEYMPADLARTLSAMARGTHNEICGFILDDWTLISVRNVAKLPTISFEMSMNAILGAVEMAAASGREILGTYHSHPGGSTEPSETDLHGWPRFIDGSYARYWVVTGDTVREFERTGEGSEIGFQLIHSIGIGVVVKRPEEGMDQSVPEDZ

It belongs to a pham that indicates it is a metalloprotease. BLAST Hits indicate either a tail protein or a metalloprotease. If we look at HHPRED, many hits come as a metalloprotease, but without the HEXXH motif. Rather it has a JAMM/MPN Zinc Binding domain. Should we annotate this as a metalloprotease, even without the HEXXH motif?

Thank you for your assistance!
Beth Rueschhoff
Indiana University Southeast
Edited 21 Feb, 2024 15:32
Posted in: Functional AnnotationMetalloprotease without HEXXH motif?
| posted 30 Mar, 2023 16:42
debbie
Hi Beth,
Before trying anything else, have your students close the program (maybe even restart their computer) and then try again.
debbie

Hi Debbie,
A student just tried this and got the same error. It only seems to happen on one particular feature.
Posted in: DNA MasterDNA Master errors
| posted 30 Mar, 2023 15:51
Greetings!
Sometimes, when reblasting a gene after changing the start site, students have been getting a "range check error." This sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't remember what causes this error or what to do when they get it.
Any guidance is appreciated. Thank you, Beth
Posted in: DNA MasterDNA Master errors