Evaluation of diversity levels of the integrase gene sequences coming from HIV-1 virus, supporting the lack of target specificity of ivermectin versus the integrase-importin complex in SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Abstract
Therapies with new drugs have been appearing in tests worldwide as potential inhibitors of sars-cov-2 virus replication. Recently, one of these drugs, Ivermectin, was reported as an inhibitor of the nuclear import of HIV-1 proteins in vitro , soon becoming the target of an international prospecting work (not yet published), with patients tested for COVID-19. However, understanding the evolutionary aspects of the biological components involved in the complex drug-nuclear import helps in understanding how these relationships exist in the deactivation of viral infections. Thus, 153 sequences of the HIV-1 integrase gene were analyzed for their genetic structure and molecular diversity and the presence of two distinct groups for the Gene and not only one, was detected; As well as different degrees of structuring for each of these groups. These results support the interpretation of the lack of conservation of the HIV-1 gene and that the number of existing polymorphisms, only for this structure of the complex, implies the non-efficiency of a drug at population levels. Thus, the molecular diversity found in HIV-1 can be extrapolated to other viruses, such as Including, SARS-CoV-2 and the functionality of the drug, interacting with the integrase-importin complex, can be further decreased.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.18.210096: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Genetic Structuring Analyses: Paired FST estimators were obtained with the software Arlequin v. Arlequinsuggested: (ARLEQUIN, RRID:SCR_009051)The FST matrix generated by the software was used in the construction of a dendrogram based on the UPGMA distance method with the MEGA X software (TAMURA et al., 2018) and the FST and geographic distance matrices were not compared. MEGA Xsuggested: NoneResults from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.18.210096: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Genetic Structuring Analyses: Paired FST estimators were obtained with the software Arlequin v. Arlequinsuggested: (ARLEQUIN, RRID:SCR_009051)The FST matrix generated by the software was used in the construction of a dendrogram based on the UPGMA distance method with the MEGA X software (TAMURA et al., 2018) and the FST and geographic distance matrices were not compared. MEGA Xsuggested: NoneResults from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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