Online biophysical predictions for SARS-CoV-2 proteins
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Abstract
Background
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causative agent of COVID-19, consists of an assembly of proteins that determine its infectious and immunological behavior, as well as its response to therapeutics. Major structural biology efforts on these proteins have already provided essential insights into the mode of action of the virus, as well as avenues for structure-based drug design. However, not all of the SARS-CoV-2 proteins, or regions thereof, have a well-defined three-dimensional structure, and as such might exhibit ambiguous, dynamic behaviour that is not evident from static structure representations, nor from molecular dynamics simulations using these structures.
Main
We present a website ( https://bio2byte.be/sars2/ ) that provides protein sequence-based predictions of the backbone and side-chain dynamics and conformational propensities of these proteins, as well as derived early folding, disorder, β-sheet aggregation, protein-protein interaction and epitope propensities. These predictions attempt to capture the inherent biophysical propensities encoded in the sequence, rather than context-dependent behaviour such as the final folded state. In addition, we provide the biophysical variation that is observed in homologous proteins, which gives an indication of the limits of their functionally relevant biophysical behaviour.
Conclusion
The https://bio2byte.be/sars2/ website provides a range of protein sequence-based predictions for 27 SARS-CoV-2 proteins, enabling researchers to form hypotheses about their possible functional modes of action.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.04.411744: (What is this?)
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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 Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for these sequences were obtained using a BLAST search from UniProt using default parameters against the Uniref90 protein dataset. BLASTsuggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)UniProtsuggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)This was followed by the standard UniProt ClustalW alignment procedure to obtain the MSA. ClustalWsuggested: (ClustalW, RRID:SCR_017277)Phosphorylation sites: Experimentally validated phosphorylation sites were obtained from two … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.04.411744: (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 Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for these sequences were obtained using a BLAST search from UniProt using default parameters against the Uniref90 protein dataset. BLASTsuggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)UniProtsuggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)This was followed by the standard UniProt ClustalW alignment procedure to obtain the MSA. ClustalWsuggested: (ClustalW, RRID:SCR_017277)Phosphorylation sites: Experimentally validated phosphorylation sites were obtained from two SARS-CoV-2 phosphoproteome projects (PXD020183, PXD019113) in the PRIDE repository12. PRIDEsuggested: (Pride-asap, RRID:SCR_012052)Website: The information was visualized online using the Django framework, with the ApexCharts JavaScript library employed for visualization of the predictions and their MSA distribution. Djangosuggested: (Django, RRID:SCR_012855)Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
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