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Title: Determinació de les proteïnes multifuncionals de Mycoplasma genitalium
Author: Paredes Felipe, Neus
Tutor: Franco Serrano, Luis  
Others: Ventura, Carles  
Abstract: Moonlighting proteins are proteins with more than one function. Many of them are involved in human disease and are targeted by current drugs. They are also involved in the virulence of pathogenic microorganisms. In this project is has been studied the moonlighting proteins of a pathogenic microorganism that causes sexually transmitted diseases such as urethritis in men and cervicitis in women, and associated with others: Mycoplasma genitalium. The analysis was performed using bioinformatics tools, combining remote homology searches (PSI-BLAST) with interactomics databases (APID) along with searching other protein databases such as UniProt and InterPro, as it has been shown to be the most effective method in this case. 24.8% of the known proteome of this bacterium has been analyzed and 9.17% of these proteins analyzed have been moonlighting. One of them is a known virulence factor, which may be of particular interest in creating a vaccine against this bacterium. In the future, if the entire M. genitalium proteome is to be analyzed, it is very likely that more moonlighting proteins will be discovered that are involved in the virulence of this pathogen. However, to facilitate this task, it would be useful to improve the current bioinformatics tools to carry out this type of analysis and make it more effective.
Keywords: multifunctional proteins
bioinformatics
biostatistics
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 2-Jun-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/  
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