Metallothioneins and Proteins of the S-Layer of Microorganisms. Bioinfor- Matic Description

Abstract

Microorganisms play an important role in the biomineralization of gold. Two types of proteins participate in this process, namely, Slayer proteins and metallothioneins. These proteins may be used for the creation of biosensors based on hybrid microorganisms obtained by genetic engineering methods with high affinity for gold ions. We used bioinformatic methods to, obtain information about the primary structures of these proteins in FASTA format, to conduct multiple alignment of their amino acid sequences and identify characteristic motives in their primary structures.