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Structure to function analysis with antigenic characterization of a hypothetical protein,HPAG1_0576 from Helicobacter pylori HPAG1.

ABSTRACT: Helicobacter pylori, a unique gastric pathogen causing chronic inflammation in the gastric mucosa with a possibility to develop gastric cancer has one-third of its proteins still uncharacterized. In this study, a hypothetical protein (HP) namely HPAG1_0576 from H. pylori HPAG1 was chosen for detailed computational analysis of its structural, functional and epitopic properties. The primary, secondary and 3D structure/model of the selected HP was constructed. Then refinement and structure validation were done, which indicated a good quality of the newly constructed model. ProFunc and STRING suggested that HPAG1_0576 shares 98% identity with a carcinogenic factor, TNF-? inducing protein (Tip-? ) of H. pylori. IEDB immunoinformatics tool predicted VLMLQACTCPNTSQRNS from position 19-35 as most potential B-cell linear epitope and SFLKSKQL from position 5-12 as most potent conformational epitope. Alternatively, FALVRARGF and FLCGLGVLM were predicted as most immunogenic CD8+ and CD4+ T-cell epitopes respectively. At the same time findings of IFN epitope tool suggests that, HPAG1_0576 had a great potential to evoke interferon-gamma (IFN-?) mediated immune response. However, this experiment is a primary approach for in silico vaccine designing from a HP, findings of this study will provide significant insights in further investigations and will assist in identifying new drug targets/vaccine candidates.

SUBMITTER: Ashrafi H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6704333 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structure to function analysis with antigenic characterization of a hypothetical protein,HPAG1_0576 from Helicobacter pylori HPAG1.

Ashrafi Hanan H Siraji Muntequa Ishtiaq MI Showva Nazmir Nur NN Hossain Md Mozamme MM Hossan Tareq T Hasan Md Ashraful MA Shohael Abdullah Mohammad AM Shawan Mohammad Mahfuz Ali Khan MMAK

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Helicobacter pylori, a unique gastric pathogen causing chronic inflammation in the gastric mucosa with a possibility to develop gastric cancer has one-third of its proteins still uncharacterized. In this study, a hypothetical protein (HP) namely HPAG1_0576 from H. pylori HPAG1 was chosen for detailed computational analysis of its structural, functional and epitopic properties. The primary, secondary and 3D structure/model of the selected HP was constructed. Then refinement and structure validati ...[more]

PMID: 31485131

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Project description:The analysis of the interaction between Helicobacter pylori (HP) and the host in vivo is an extremely informative way to enlighten the molecular mechanisms behind the persistency/latency of the bacterium as well as in the progression of the infection. An important source of information is represented by circulating antibodies targeting the bacteria that define a specific "disease signature" with prospective diagnostic implications. The diagnosis of some of the HP induced diseases such as gastric cancer (GC), MALT lymphoma (MALT), and autoimmune gastritis (AIG) is not easy because patients do not show symptoms of illness in early-onset stages, at the same time they progress rapidly. The possibility of identifying markers able to provide an early diagnosis would be extremely beneficial since a late diagnosis results in a delay in undergoing active therapy and reduces the survival rate of patients. With the aim to identify the HP antigens recognized during the host immune-response to the infection and possibly disease progression, we applied a discovery-driven approach, that combines "phage display" and deep sequencing. The procedure is based on the selection of ORF phage libraries, specifically generated from the pathogen's genome, with sera antibodies from patients with different HP-related diseases. To this end two phage display libraries have been constructed starting from genomic DNA from the reference HP 26695 and the pathogenic HP B128 strains; libraries were filtered for ORFs by using an ORF selection vector developed by our group (Di Niro et al., 2005; Soluri et al., 2018), selected with antibodies from patients affected by GC, MALT, and AIG and putative HP antigens/epitopes were identified after Sequencing and ranking. The results show that individual selection significantly reduced the library diversity and comparison of individual ranks for each condition allowed us to highlight a pattern of putative antigens specific for the different pathological outcomes or common for all of them. Within the putative antigens enriched after selection, we have validated protein CagY/Cag7 by ELISA assay as a marker of HP infection and progression. Overall, we have defined HP antigenic repertoire and identified a panel of putative specific antigens/epitopes for three different HP infection pathological outcomes that could be validated in the next future.

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Structure to function analysis with antigenic characterization of a hypothetical protein,HPAG1_0576 from Helicobacter pylori HPAG1.

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Structure to function analysis with antigenic characterization of a hypothetical protein,HPAG1_0576 from Helicobacter pylori HPAG1.

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