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1Laboratory of Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
|October 4, 2023
概括
病毒RNA序列迅速演变以模仿宿主蛋白质,使得像SARS-CoV-2这样的病毒能够劫持细胞功能. 这种分子模拟使病毒与宿主界面的快速适应成为可能.
科学领域:
- 病毒学和分子生物学:专注于病毒进化和宿主-病原体相互作用.
背景情况:
- 病毒蛋白利用短线性图案的分子模仿来与宿主细胞领域相互作用并破坏细胞过程.
- 了解病毒-宿主接口的动态是至关重要的,特别是对于像SARS-CoV-2这样快速演变的RNA病毒.
研究的目的:
- 研究RNA病毒序列多样性在塑造病毒与宿主接口动态中的作用.
- 分析SARS-CoV-2核体蛋白质的图案景观及其进化轨迹.
主要方法:
- 对可活的SARS-CoV-2物种的广泛序列记录的分析.
- 专注于多功能核体 (N) 蛋白.
- 简短线性图案 (SLIM) 的识别和表征及其进化出现.
主要成果:
- 观察到大量的介导基本宿主蛋白相互作用的动机.
- 很大一部分动机是非功能性或随机发生的,在某些病毒子集中不存在.
- 许多图案是通过从祖先共识序列的短暂突变 * ex nihilo * 产生的.
- 突变的景观表明,至少有25%的已知真核生物模式可以被访问.
结论:
- 模拟基因是一种高度动态的机制,使病毒能够广泛探索和利用宿主蛋白相互作用.
- 这种适应性使得包括SARS-CoV-2在内的RNA病毒能够迅速进化它们与宿主细胞的接口.
- 由于SARS-CoV-2的大量序列多样性,可以通过分子模拟来快速适应.
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