Understanding Mycobacteriophages Through their Unrevealed Proteins

The Mycobacteriophages are the bacteriophages infecting different Mycobacterium species in nature. The hypothetical proteins in 17 different Mycobacteriophages were structurally and functionally characterized by using computational tools like CDD-Blast, Interproscan, pfam, COGS and protein structure prediction server (PS2 server). Near about 2188 hypothetical proteins were screened for presence of functional domains and structural classification. The function predictions for 586 hypothetical proteins and structure predictions for 171 hypothetical proteins were possible by using these Bioinformatics web tools. These results can prove helpful for proper understanding of functional, evolutionary and metabolic development of Mycobacterium species.