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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 23, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415613
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medical entomology; tick; salivary glands; structure; classification
In this study, the classification of tick salivary proteins was analyzed using the Alphafold2/Dali programs, resulting in the identification of novel protein families and providing new insights into the structure and function of tick salivary proteins.
Hard ticks feed for several days or weeks on their hosts and their saliva contains thousands of polypeptides belonging to dozens of families, as identified by salivary transcriptomes. Comparison of the coding sequences to protein databases helps to identify putative secreted proteins and their potential functions, directing and focusing future studies, usually done with recombinant proteins that are tested in different bioassays. However, many families of putative secreted peptides have a unique character, not providing significant matches to known sequences. The availability of the Alphafold2 program, which provides in silico predictions of the 3D polypeptide structure, coupled with the Dali program which uses the atomic coordinates of a structural model to search the Protein Data Bank (PDB) allows another layer of investigation to annotate and ascribe a functional role to proteins having so far being characterized as unique. In this study, we analyzed the classification of tick salivary proteins under the light of the Alphafold2/Dali programs, detecting novel protein families and gaining new insights relating the structure and function of tick salivary proteins.
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