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On the Regularities of the Polar Profiles of Proteins Related to Ebola Virus Infection and their Functional Domains

C. Polanco, M. Samaniego, T. Buhse, V. Uversky, C. Bañuelos, C. Bañuelos, F. Tavera, D. Tavera, M. Falconi, d. Ponce,
2021

The number of fatalities and economic losses caused by the Ebola virus infection across the planet culminated in the havoc that occurred between August and November 2014. However, little is known about the molecular protein profile of this devastating virus. This work represents a thorough bioinformatics analysis of the regularities of charge distribution (polar profiles) in two groups of proteins and their functional domains associated with Ebola virus disease: Ebola virus proteins and Human proteins interacting with Ebola virus. Our analysis reveals that a fragment exists in each of these proteins—one named the “functional domain”—with the polar profile similar to the polar profile of the protein that contains it. Each protein is formed by a group of short sub-sequences, where each fragment has a different and distinctive polar profile and where the polar profile between adjacent short sub-sequences changes orderly and gradually to coincide with the polar profile of the whole protein. When using the charge distribution as a metric, it was observed that it effectively discriminates the proteins from their functional domains. As a counterexample, the same test was applied to a set of synthetic proteins built for that purpose, revealing that any of the regularities reported here for the Ebola virus proteins and human proteins interacting with Ebola virus were not present in the synthetic proteins. Our results indicate that the polar profile of each protein studied and its corresponding functional domain are similar. Thus, when building each protein from its functional domai—adding one amino acid at a time and plotting each time its polar profile—it was observed that the resulting graphs can be divided into groups with similar polar profiles. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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  • C. Polanco
    Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, México City, 04510, Mexico
  • M. Samaniego
    Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, 62209, Mexico
  • T. Buhse
    Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL 33647, United States
  • V. Uversky
    Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow, 142290, Russian Federation
  • C. Bañuelos
    Department of Odontology, Faculty of Medicine (Iztacala Campus), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, México City, 04510, Mexico
  • C. Bañuelos
  • F. Tavera
  • D. Tavera
  • M. Falconi
  • d. Ponce
Название журнала
  • Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics
Том
  • 76
Выпуск
  • 3
Страницы
  • 411-431
Ключевые слова
  • carrier protein; intrinsically disordered protein; viral protein; biology; chemistry; Ebola hemorrhagic fever; Ebolavirus; human; metabolism; pathology; procedures; protein database; theoretical model; virology; Computational Biology; Databases, Protein; Ebolavirus; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola; Humans; Intrinsically Disordered Proteins; Membrane Transport Proteins; Models, Theoretical; Viral Proteins
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  • Humana Press Inc.
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  • journal article
Тип лицензии Creative Commons
  • CC
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  • Свободная лицензия
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  • scopus