Study on the Phylogenetic Treeof Human Platelet Glycoproteins

Abstract

Platelet glycoprotein is an important group of glycoporteins on platelets. Several types of platelet glycoproteins have been studied for their functions in the hemostasis system. A bioinformatic analysis was performed to find out how the platelet glycoproteins’ genes are related to each other. A multiple sequence alignment phylogenetic tree was performed to present the family tree of the human platelet glycoproteins recorded in the genomic database, ExPASY. These derived sequences from the database were processed by ClustalW and subsequently used for preparation of the distance matrix by Phylip protdist. The final generated phylogenetic tree of human platelet glycoproteins was presented and discussed.

Keywords

Platelet glycoprotein Phylogenetic

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