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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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    Computational studies of cytochrome P450 (CYPs) enzyme in pulses
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-10) Pooja; Ahalawat, Navjeet
    Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) is a large superfamily of enzymes found in all domains of life, including plants. It plays a crucial role in the metabolism of various compounds, including drugs, toxins, and endogenous substrates. Pulses are the richest source of fiber and complex carbohydrates, resulting in a low GI food. CYP450s enzymes are heme-containing monooxygenases that catalyze metabolisms of various endogenous and exogenous compounds. They constitute a superfamily of enzymes present in various organisms including mammals, plants, bacteria, and insects. CYP450s are diverse and metabolize a wide variety of substrates, but their structures are largely conserved. In this study, bioinformatics analyses of CYP450s enzyme performed in pulses. According to the conserved motifs obtained by MEME and MAST tools, ten motifs were common in all those pulses. The structural and functional analyses of CYP450s in pulses were done by using UniProtKB and InterProScan tools in ExPASy database. The tertiary structures of pulses were predicted by Phyre2 web server. The protein sequences were aligned with ClustalW and then the phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA11 using the neighbor-joining (NJ) method. By the successful analysis of CYP450s, we developed a productive database by using MYSQL and PHP. The database provides information related to 200 proteins of P450s in pulses with their predicted 3D structure in PDB format, functions and Fasta sequences. A Pulses Cytochrome P450 database serves as a centralized repository for curated information on CYP450 enzymes in pulses. It consolidates data from various sources, including sequence information, structural data, substrate specificity, and catalytic properties.