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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
卷 717, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2022.109124
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ORF3a; ORF6; ORF7a; ORF7b; ORF8; ORF10; Pathogenicity; SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2, which has a fatality rate below 1%. Accessory proteins of SARS-CoV-2, including ORF3a, ORF6, ORF7a, ORF7b, ORF8, and ORF10, have potential functions in manipulating host immune mechanisms and are crucial in COVID-19 pathology. Variations in these accessory proteins have been observed across different continents, with ORF3a showing the highest level of unique variations.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) with an estimated fatality rate of less than 1%. The SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins ORF3a, ORF6, ORF7a, ORF7b, ORF8, and ORF10 possess putative functions to manipulate host immune mechanisms. These involve interferons, which appear as a consensus function, immune signaling receptor NLRP3 (NLR family pyrin domain-containing 3) inflammasome, and inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) and are critical in COVID-19 pathology. Outspread variations of each of the six accessory proteins were observed across six continents of all complete SARS-CoV-2 proteomes based on the data reported before November 2020. A decreasing order of percentage of unique variations in the accessory proteins was determined as ORF3a > ORF8 > ORF7a > ORF6 > ORF10 > ORF7b across all continents. The highest and lowest unique variations of ORF3a were observed in South America and Oceania, respectively. These findings suggest that the wide variations in accessory proteins seem to affect the pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2.
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