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nSp2 Protease-Semliki forest virus

Part Description

Nsp2 is one of four non structural proteins that together forms the main complex responsible for the synthesis positive-sense viral RNAs, results in the synthesis of both the genomic and subgenomic RNAs, of which the subgenomic RNA is produced in excess of the viral genome. Which allows the virus to self-replicate into millions of copies of the virus.

Usage

The ∼90kDa alpha-virus nsP2 protein also have several functions in viral infection.nsP2 was initially described as consisting of two domains, an N-terminal helicase domain, which also exhibits nucleoside triphosphatase (NTPase) activity and a C-terminal protease domain. The first putative N-terminal domain has exhibited cofactor-like properties regarding the activity of the nsP2 protease domain. The second putative domain appears to function in promoter selection, as this domain has been the site of suppressor-mutations developed in response to promoter site mutations. In the context of viral replication, nsP2 exhibits three important functions, acting as a helicase, a triphosphatase and a protease. In addition to these roles, nsP2 is intimately involved in the shutoff of host macro-molecular synthesis.nsP2 functions as a helicase to unwind RNA secondary structures formed during viral RNA replication. The helicase activity of nsP2 is dependent on the NTPase activity of the N-terminal domain, as mutations in the Walker A motif ablated helicase activity in both recombinant and tissue culture models.Recent data has indicated that the helicase activity of nsP2 likely acts in coordination with the polymerase activity of nsP4 and is dependent on the full-length protein, and that a severable helicase domain is not present.Collectively, these data indicate that the helicase activity of nsP2 is essential for viability, presumably due to its function during viral replication The RTPase activity of nsP2 is responsible for the removal of the γ-phosphate from the 5′ end of nascent positive-sense RNAs to yield a diphosphate moietyat the 5′ terminus, enabling the RNA to act as a substrate for the nsP1-mediated capping reaction.The C-terminal domain of nsP2 was genetically identified as the protease responsible for the processing of the non-structural polyprotein nsP2 may also perform functions in RNA synthesis beyond its roles as protease, RTPase, and helicase. It has been proposed that nsP2 acts as a transcription factor for subgenome synthesis by binding to the subgenomic promoter.

Characterization

We have made simulations using mathematical modelling techniques to characterize the increase in expression when using replicons over traditional methods while also providing simulations that Characterize the function of replicon by eliciting an increased response in both Dendritic Cell population and T-Helper Population.

We also provide Functional characterization of replicons from literature. As This figure shows HIVA-specific T-cell responses after a single immunization with clinical-grade plasmid DNA vaccines between DREP.HIVA and pTHr.HIVA in individual mice immunized by 10 μg of them all of which complies with our mathematical modelling & simulations

Figure 1. Functional characterization of replicons from literature. This figure shows HIVA-specific T-cell responses after a single immunization with clinical-grade plasmid DNA vaccines between DREP.HIVA and pTHr.HIVA in individual mice immunized by 10 μg of them.
Figure 2. Mathematical modelling simulation of Number of positive strand RNA in traditional vaccination presented by the graph to the left vs with the use of self amplifying replicon on the right.
Figure 3. Mathematical modelling simulation of T-helper cells population response according to logfc in response to DREP vaccine on the left vs traditional DNA vaccine on the right.
Figure 4. Mathematical modelling simulation of Dendritic Cells population response according to logfc in response to DREP vaccine on the left vs traditional DNA vaccine on the right.






































References

Li, Y., Teague, B., Zhang, Y., Su, Z., Porter, E., Dobosh, B., ... & Weiss, R. (2019). In vitro evolution of enhanced RNA replicons for immunotherapy. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-10.

Nordström, E. K., Forsell, M. N., Barnfield, C., Bonin, E., Hanke, T., Sundström, M., ... & Liljeström, P. (2005). Enhanced immunogenicity using an alphavirus replicon DNA vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Journal of general virology, 86(2), 349-354. Sequence and Features


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