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Sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genome reveals features important for vaccine design

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72533-2

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  1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration CBER Coronavirus (COVID-19) Supplemental Funding
  2. CBER operating funds
  3. National Institutes of Health [HL151392]
  4. Harvard Quantitative Biology Initiative

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As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is rapidly progressing, the need for the development of an effective vaccine is critical. A promising approach for vaccine development is to generate, through codon pair deoptimization, an attenuated virus. This approach carries the advantage that it only requires limited knowledge specific to the virus in question, other than its genome sequence. Therefore, it is well suited for emerging viruses, for which we may not have extensive data. We performed comprehensive in silico analyses of several features of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequence (e.g., codon usage, codon pair usage, dinucleotide/junction dinucleotide usage, RNA structure around the frameshift region) in comparison with other members of the coronaviridae family of viruses, the overall human genome, and the transcriptome of specific human tissues such as lung, which are primarily targeted by the virus. Our analysis identified the spike (S) and nucleocapsid (N) proteins as promising targets for deoptimization and suggests a roadmap for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development, which can be generalizable to other viruses.

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