A Bioinformatics Approach to Investigate Structural and Non-Structural Proteins in Human Coronaviruses
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A Bioinformatics Approach to Investigate Structural and Non-Structural Proteins in Human Coronaviruses
Abstract
Recent studies confirmed that people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2 have preexisting reactivity, probably due to previous exposure to widely circulating common cold coronaviruses. Such preexistent reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 comes from memory T cells that can specifically recognize a SARS-CoV-2 epitope of structural and non-structural proteins and the homologous epitopes from common cold coronaviruses. Therefore, it is important to understand the SARS-CoV-2 cross-reactivity by investigating these protein sequence similarities with those of different circulating coronaviruses. In addition, the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants lead to an intense interest in whether mutations in proteins (especially in the spike) could potentially compromise vaccine effectiveness. Since it is not clear that the differences in clinical outcomes are caused by common cold coronaviruses, a deeper investigation on cross-reactive T-cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is crucial to examine the differential COVID-19 symptoms and vaccine performance. Therefore, the present study can be a starting point for further research on cross-reactive T cell recognition between circulating common cold coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2, including the most recent variants Delta and Omicron. In the end, a deep learning approach, based on Siamese networks, is proposed to accurately and efficiently calculate a BLAST-like similarity score between protein sequences.
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; Siamese networks; cross-reactivity; long short-term memories; similarity score.
Copyright © 2022 Cicaloni, Costanti, Pasqui, Bianchini, Niccolai and Bongini.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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