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ArticleBioinformatics advances2025

EzSEA: an interactive web interface for enzyme sequence evolution analysis.

Angela K Jiang, Jerry Zhao, Xiaofang Jiang

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Angela K JiangCenter of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, United States.
Jerry ZhaoNational Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.
Xiaofang JiangNational Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0955-8284

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Abstract

Motivation: Enzymes catalyze essential chemical reactions, driving metabolism, immunity, and growth. Understanding their evolution requires identifying mutations that shaped their functions and substrate interactions. Current methods lack integration of evolutionary history and intuitive visualization tools. Results: We develop Enzyme Sequence Evolution Analysis (EzSEA), a web interface that identifies putative functionally important mutations by performing the following steps: structural prediction, homology search, multiple sequence alignment and trimming, phylogenetic tree inference, ancestral sequence reconstruction, and enzyme delineation. The EzSEA web application enables intuitive visualization of results, highlighting key mutations and phylogenetic tree branches that putatively delineate the enzyme of interest. Finally, we validate EzSEA by identifying previously experimentally verified key mutations in the gut bacteria enzyme bilirubin reductase. Availability and implementation: EzSEA is freely available on the web at https://jianglabnlm.com/ezsea/.

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PMID40546820
PMCPMC12179385

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