MAP Kinase analyser: A tool for plant kinase and substrate analysis

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Title	MAP Kinase analyser: A tool for plant kinase and substrate analysis
Authors	Saranga Dhar Samantaray¹, Parvendra Singh¹, Bonthla Venkata Suresh², Sugandha Sharma², Gohar Taj²*, Anil Kumar²
Affiliation	¹Department of Computer Science & Technology, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttrakhand-263145, India; ²Department of Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttrakhand-263145, India
Email	gohartajkhan@rediffmail.com; *Corresponding author
Article Type	Web Server
Date	Received May 28, 2011; Accepted May 30, 2011; Published June 23, 2011
Abstract	MAPK (Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase) is a Ser/Thr kinase, which plays a crucial role in plant growth and development, transferring the extra cellular stimuli into intracellular response etc. Manual identification of these MAPK in the plant genome is tedious and time taking process. There are number of online servers which predict the P-site (phosphorylation site), find the motifs and domain but there is no specific tool which can identify all them together. In order to identify the P-Site, phosphorylation site consensus sequences and domain of the MAPK in plant genome, we developed a tool, MAP Kinase analyzer. MAP kinase analyzer take protein sequence as input in the fasta format and the output of tool includes: 1) The prediction of the phosphorylation site viz., Serine (S), Threonine (T), and Tyrosine (Y), Contex, Position, Score and phosphorylating kinase as well as the graphical output; 2) Phosphorylation site consensus sequence pattern for different kinases and 3) Domain information about the MAPKs. The MAP kinase analyser tool and supplementary files can be downloaded from http://www.bioinfogbpuat/mapk_OWN_1/.
Citation	*Samantaray et al.* Bioinformation 6(7): 286-287 (2011)
Edited by	P Kangueane
ISSN	0973-2063
Publisher	Biomedical Informatics
License	This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.