Functional Sleuth - May 2010

A PSI target with unknown function

PDB 1T3U from the New York SGX Research Center for Structural Genomics (NYSGXRC)

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structure of PDB ID it3u

Plasmid Information for IT3U

Plasmid Clone ID PaCD00089135 in vector pSB3
Organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa pao 1
Structural Information RCSB PDB Structure Explorer - 1T3U
Experimental Information NYSGXRC-2846e
PSI Structural Biology Knowledgebase 1T3U

Examples of Plasmids in DNASU with >50% similarity

Clone ID Organism/Gene name Max Identity(%)/
Alignment Length
PaCD00008250 Pseudomonas aeruginosa/hypothetical protein 100/298

 

 

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Updated for April 2010