4 Basic knowledge regarding regulatory mechanism of ACC for fatty acid biosynthesis required its 3D structure from amino acid sequence from Jatropha curcas. J. curcas is a drought resistant shrub, potent anti-feedant candidate, also known as “physic nut” belongs to the family,

Euphorbiaceae. 6, 7 and 8 Various locations for cultivation of such shrub are Central and South America and it was distributed by Portuguese seafarers in Southeast Asia, Africa and India. The chemical composition of jatropha seed includes: 6.20% moisture, 18.00% protein, Raf inhibitor 38.00% fat, 17.00% carbohydrates, 15.50% fiber, and 5.30% ash. 9 The plant and its seed are non-edible due to presence

of curcine and deterpine which are toxic in nature, 10 but it is rich in lipid content which makes it a potential source for transesterified oil (biodiesel). Apart from lipid metabolism ACCs are also attractive targets for drug discovery against type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer, microbial Selleck HDAC inhibitor infections, and other diseases, and the plastid ACC of plants is the target of action of various commercial herbicides. 11 Biogas production using co-digestion of lipid and carbohydrate rich waste requires a better knowledge about the mechanism behind biomethanation. In which lipid metabolism plays a key role because it helps in the enhancement in production of second generation biofuel.12 and 13 Fatty acids are the products of intermediate stage of biomethanation which involves a major role of Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) enzyme. Apart isothipendyl from lipid acid biosynthesis it can also be used as a model protein to study about the potential herbicidal and insecticidal

activity and translational repression using in-silico analysis of its regulatory and catalytic domains, which will be helpful for the agricultural growth. 2 and 11 In order to perform a structure-based virtual screening exercise it is necessary to have the 3D structure of the receptor. Most commonly the structure of the receptor has been determined by experimental techniques such as X-ray crystallography or NMR. For proteins, if the structure is not available, one can resort to the techniques of protein-structure prediction.14 and 15 Currently the 3D structure of Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) from J. curcas is not available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Hence protein modeling of Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) from J. curcas can be carried out using in-silico Protein Modeling algorithms. 16 and 17 Protein sequence of Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) from J. curcas has been retrieved from Swissport, a proteomics sequence and knowledge base data repository.