IN SILICO IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS IN CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM BY THE APPROACH SUBTRACTIVE GENOMICS

Koteswara Reddy G.¹*, Nagamalleswara Rao K.², Phani Rama Krishna B.³, Aravind S.^4
1Department of Biotechnology, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla-522101, AP, India
²Department of Chemical Engineering, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla-522101, AP, India
³Department of Biotechnology, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla-522101, AP, India
⁴Department of Biotechnology, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla-522101, AP, India
* Corresponding Author : kotireddy.nit@gmail.com

Received : -     Accepted : -     Published : 21-12-2010
Volume : 2     Issue : 2       Pages : 12 - 16
Int J Bioinformatics Res 2.2 (2010):12-16
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.9735/0975-3087.2.2.12-16

Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : We are thankful to Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Bapatla Engineering College and Bapatla Educational Society for their financial assistance. Authors are thankful to E.Hari Kishan Reddy, IIT-Hyderabad

The completion of genome sequences of pathogenic bacteria and the completion of human genome project has provided lot amount of data that can be utilized to design vaccines and drug targets. One of the recently adopting strategies for drug designing is based on comparative genomics approach, in which the subtraction dataset between the host and the pathogen genome provides information for a set of genes that are likely to be essential to the pathogen but absent in the host. This approach has been used to identify vaccine and drug targets of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Helicobacter pylori. We have used the same approach to identify the vaccine and drug targets of Clostridium botulinum F strain. Our analysis has revealed that out of 3631 coding sequences of the pathogen, 446 represent essential genes that have no human homolog. We have further analyzed these 446 genes by the protein sequence database to list some 96 genes whose products are possibly exposed on the pathogen surface. This preliminary work reported here identifies a small subset of the Clostridium botulinum F strain proteome that might be investigated further for identifying potential drug and vaccine targets in this pathogen.

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