Exploring the evolution of caffeine biosynthesis enzymes
Author(s): Shuchismita Dutta
RCSB Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University
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Description
Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships. Explore caffeine biosynthesis enzyme genes to learn more about to identify relationships between proteins withing the same and between different organisms. This lesson uses data from various bioinformatics resources, tools for sequence comparisons and the software programs called MEGA-X, which takes comparative genomic data and generates phylogenetic trees. In addition, parts of the exercise also uses the software MAUVE to compare the genes of caffeine synthesizing enzymes from tea, coffee, and cocoa. The exercise, exercise key, and supporting files are submitted here.
Notes
Materials were created as part of the GS-FMN in Fall 2019.
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- Dutta, S. (2020). Exploring the evolution of caffeine biosynthesis enzymes. Genome Solver FMN, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/EE3E-S080