{"title":"Corona Virus ORF1ab-Derived Nsp9 and Nsp10Non-Structural Proteins have Homologies to S8/S10 Ribosomal Proteins as well as RlmG/ ErmDrRNAMethyltransferasesand may Inhibit Host Mitoribosome Assembly and Protein Synthesis","authors":"A. Chakraborty","doi":"10.35248/2161-0517.20.09.186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2161-0517.20.09.186","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-Alignment method coupled with phylogenetic analysis we disclosed the Nsp9 and Nsp10 non-structural proteins of Corona Virus asrRNARlmH/K methyltransferases with similarities with bin recombinase and int-core integrase fold. Further, Nsp9 has similarities to S8 ribosomal protein and Nap10 has similarity to S10 ribosomal protein. Previously, we showed Nsp13, Nsp14, Nsp15 and Nsp16 are also different types of rRNARlmE/N and Cfr-like methyltransferases-ribonucleasewith RNA helicase domains. Two domains of Nsp13 astonishingly have similarities to ribosomal proteins L6 and L9. Taken together, Nsp9/10 and Nsp13-16 proteins could mimic host ribosome assembly and also could methylate rRNA of mitobibosome preventing mitochondrial protein synthesis and oxidative phosphorylation. Low ATP synthesis causes lowering blood pressure following coma but very ATP concentration (1-10nM) surely induces platelets aggregation through vWA, collagen and GpIIb/IIIaproteins followed byfibrin formation and blood clotting as recently have seen in the lung of many Corona virus infected patients. We have also postulated that two polyproteins itself resemble like 28S and 38S mitoribosome subunits and compete with rRNAs inhibiting the ribosome turnover and new protein synthesis due to their similarities with many ribosomal proteins.Such finding may be valuable in computer-based novel drug design against Corona virus.","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69977440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virology & Mycology Overview","authors":"Xiaobao Ying","doi":"10.35248/2161-0517.20.09.E112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2161-0517.20.09.E112","url":null,"abstract":"Virology and Mycology is an open access peer investigated Journal that considers articles in all parts of research on the infections and parasite of creature (or) plant and organisms. The methodologies and strategies utilized are relied upon to envelop numerous orders, including cell science, auxiliary science, subatomic science, hereditary qualities, organic chemistry, biophysics, immunology, morphology, genomics and pathogenesis. The Journal invites fundamental research just as pre-clinical and clinical investigations of novel demonstrative apparatuses.","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69978144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Corvino, M. Rocca, V. Folliero, F. Foglia, G. Franci, E. Finamore, M. Galdiero
{"title":"MALDI-TOF Clinical Filamentous Fungi Identification. Bead Beating Versus Acid Solvent Protein Extraction Method","authors":"G. Corvino, M. Rocca, V. Folliero, F. Foglia, G. Franci, E. Finamore, M. Galdiero","doi":"10.29011/2688-8750.100019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29011/2688-8750.100019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69482239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SARS-CoV-2 and about N95 Covering Mask","authors":"Xiaobao Ying","doi":"10.35248/2161-0517.20.09.E113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2161-0517.20.09.E113","url":null,"abstract":"SARS-CoV-2 is a beta-coronavirus whose genome is a solitary ≈30 kb strand of RNA. Seasonal influenza is brought about by a totally unique group of RNA infections called flu infections. Influenza infections have littler genomes (≈14 kb) encoded in eight particular strands of RNA, and they taint human cells in an unexpected way in comparison to coronaviruses.","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69978248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occurrence of the Slippery Sequence UUUAAAC in the RNA Genome 2 that generates the ORF1ab Protein of SARS-CoV-2","authors":"H. Geurdes","doi":"10.35248/2161-0517.20.9.198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2161-0517.20.9.198","url":null,"abstract":"In the present brief report we look into the slippery sequence TTTAAAC (in cDNA format) of the ORF1ab protein of SARS-CoV-2. We found a number of TTTAAAC sequences where only one is actively producing a shift-1. There are three other sequences exactly positioned in the read-through of mRNA as the aforementioned. They do not produce a-1 frameshift. There is one position where in addition a pseudoknot occurs but no frameshift. We ask if it is possible to enforce or prevent shifts in TTTAAAC to destroy the ORF1ab derived proteins such as RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and/or 2’-O-ribose methyltransferase. Finally an mRNA polymer repressor of the one single effective frameshift is proposed for further research into a medicinal treatment. Perhaps that there are specific protein repressors.","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69978676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health related quality of life and associated factors among women on anti-retroviral therapy in health facilities of Jimma Town, Southwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study","authors":"pYetnayet Abebe Melaku Haile Likka Tolossa Wakayo, Mulusew Gerbabap","doi":"10.4172/2155-6113-C1-026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-6113-C1-026","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in all regions in recent years. There is little information on dengue fever epidemiology in Iran. High prevalence of dengue fever in Pakistan bordering southeast Iran emphasizes the need for paying more attention to monitoring of the disease in this region. The aim of this study was to study the dengue fever seropositivity among adult febrile patients in southeast Iran. \u0000Methods:Dengue fever virus specific IgG antibodies were measured by a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in sera of 184 patients. \u0000Results: All examined sera were negative. \u0000Conclusions:The existence of dengue fever in eastern borders of Iran and tracking the virus vectors in the southeast Iran can be a treat for the circulation of the virus in Iran; however, we did not find any track of the seropositivity in this study and despite the high prevalence of dengue fever in Pakistan bordering southeast Iran, no dengue positive cases were found in this study. This epidemiological research is significant for local health authorities.","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70278410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioinformatic approaches to infectious diseases","authors":"T. Jiang","doi":"10.4172/2161-0517-C2-025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0517-C2-025","url":null,"abstract":"T development of safe, oncolytic (o) HSV vectors for systemic treatment of metastatic breast cancer provides an opportunity for combining virus lytic activity with the potential to induce anti-tumor immunity. Ideally oHSV should be engineered for selective infection of tumor cells and escape from neutralizing antibodies. Complete retargeting strategies both detarget the viral attachment/ entry glycoprotein gD from recognition of its cognate receptors, HVEM and nectin-1, and provide gD with a novel ligand that recognizes a highly expressed tumor-associated receptors that are poorly or not expressed on non-tumor tissue. Here we present design strategies for engineered oHSV that preferentially infect and lyse breast cancer cells by recognition of GFRα1, a receptor highly expressed on a subset of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers. We replaced the signal peptide and HVEM binding domain of gD with pre-pro-(pp)GDNF to create a GFRα1 targeting protein, gD(Y38)-GDNF, that can still bind nectin-1. Virus expressing gD(Y38)-GDNF was propagated on cells expressing nectin-1 and purified virus was shown to enter nectin-1/HVEM-deficient J1.12 and B78H1 cells in a GFRα1-dependent manner. U2OS cells engineered to express GFRα1 were found to support propagation of a fully retargeted derivative virus that no longer recognizes nectin-1 but selectively infects cells through recognition of GFRα1, resulting in MOI-dependent tumor cell death in vitro. Moreover, direct intratumoral injection in nude mice showed complete tumor destruction in vivo. We have discovered, however, that retargeting can reduce the efficiency of virus entry and increase sensitivity to neutralizing (VN) antibodies, both associated with reduced retargeted gD incorporation into the virus envelope. Efficient infectivity was partially restored by selective residue changes in the downstream fusogen gB. Current studies involve engineered and selected changes in the epitope structure of retargeted gD that allow escape from VN antibodies to permit efficient systemic application of oHSV for metastatic breast cancer therapy.","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70463000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immuno-profiling of non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection patients reveal global T cell dysfunction and individuals at risk","authors":"Scott C Bell","doi":"10.4172/2161-0517-C1-023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0517-C1-023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70462872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CRISPR, A New Powerful Weapon for Plant to Combat Viruses","authors":"Xiaobao Ying","doi":"10.4172/2161-0517.1000E111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0517.1000E111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91631,"journal":{"name":"Virology & mycology : infectious diseases","volume":"7 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2161-0517.1000E111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41473903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}