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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Volume 63, Issue 1, Pages 9-19Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01206
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Researchers studied the relationship between the conservation of amino acid sequences and protein dynamics in the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. They discovered a quantifiable similarity that is crucial for designing effective drugs and has larger implications for viral proteases and proteins in general.
Proteases are major drug targets for many viral diseases. However, mutations can render several antiprotease drugs inefficient rapidly even though these mutations may not alter protein structures significantly. Understanding relations between quickly mutating residues, protease structures, and the dynamics of the proteases is crucial for designing potent drugs. Due to this reason, we studied relations between the evolutionary information on residues in the amino acid sequences and protein dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 main protease. More precisely, we analyzed three dynamical quantities (Schlitter entropy, root-mean-square fluctuations, and dynamical flexibility index) and their relation to the amino acid conservation extracted from multiple sequence alignments of the main protease. We showed that a quantifiable similarity can be built between a sequence-based quantity called Jensen-Shannon conservation and those three dynamical quantities. We validated this similarity for a diverse set of 32 different proteins, other than the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. We believe that establishing these kinds of quantitative bridges will have larger implications for all viral proteases as well as all proteins.
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