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PLOS ONE
卷 17, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265657
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- Indian Council of Medical Research [VIR(25)/2019/ECD-1, ISRM/12(33)/2019]
- ICMR-JRF scheme [3/1/3 J.R.F.2016/LS/HRD-(32262)]
- CSIR Senior Research Associateship (Scientists' Pool Scheme) [13(9089-A)/2019-Pool]
Microbial mimicry of host proteins/peptides can lead to autoimmune diseases. This study revealed that many bacterial and viral host mimicry proteins have structural disorder, but only a few overlap with host's intrinsically disordered protein regions. Most pathogens mimic host proteins involved in ion binding and signaling pathways.
Microbial mimicry of the host proteins/peptides can elicit host auto-reactive T- or B-cells resulting in autoimmune disease(s). Since intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) are involved in several host cell signaling and PPI networks, molecular mimicry of the IDPRs can help the pathogens in substituting their own proteins in the host cell-signaling and PPI networks and, ultimately hijacking the host cellular machinery. Thus, the present study was conducted to discern the structural disorder and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) like, molecular recognition features (MoRFs), short linear motifs (SLiMs), and low complexity regions (LCRs) in the experimentally verified mimicry proteins and peptides (mimitopes) of bacteria, viruses and host. Also, functional characteristics of the mimicry proteins were studied in silico. Our results indicated that 78% of the bacterial host mimicry proteins and 45% of the bacterial host mimitopes were moderately/highly disordered while, 73% of the viral host mimicry proteins and 31% of the viral host mimitopes were moderately/ highly disordered. Among the pathogens, 27% of the bacterial mimicry proteins and 13% of the bacterial mimitopes were moderately/highly disordered while, 53% of the viral mimicry proteins and 21% of the viral mimitopes were moderately/highly disordered. Though IDPR were frequent in host, bacterial and viral mimicry proteins, only a few mimitopes overlapped with the IDPRs like, MoRFs, SLiMs and LCRs. This suggests that most of the microbes cannot use molecular mimicry to modulate the host PPIs and hijack the host cell machinery. Functional analyses indicated that most of the pathogens exhibited mimicry with the host proteins involved in ion binding and signaling pathways. This is the first report on the disordered regions and functional aspects of experimentally proven host and microbial mimicry proteins.
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