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Title: Comparació a nivell d'estructura i de glicosilacions entre proteïnes "moonlighting" de microorganismes patògens i els seus homòlegs en altres microorganismes
Author: Nualart Mundó, Oriol
Tutor: Franco Serrano, Luis  
Others: Maceira, Marc  
Abstract: "Moonlighting" proteins are those that carry out more than one biochemical function. In pathogen microorganisms, it has been observed that many of such proteins have secondary functions related to host adhesion and to the ability to infect. Knowing which regions of the protein are related to virulence can help better understand the mechanisms involved. In addition, it has been observed that many of such proteins related to virulence originally have very essential cellular functions. This fact has suggested the hypothesis that those proteins, being evolutionarily very preserved in hosts, may be used by pathogens as a form of camouflage, exposing them to the cell surface so the host identifies them as its own. With this project it has been sought, in a set of ten moonlighting proteins of pathogens, structural elements, glycosylations and sequence motifs possibly related to virulence. To do so, it has been carried out, for each of the studied proteins, a series of comparisons with several homologue proteins, both from other pathogens and from nonpathogens. The selection of elements suspicious of being related to virulence has been done choosing those preserved exclusively in pathogens. Similarly, in the case of glycosylations, have also been selected those preserved exclusively in non-pathogens, as suspicious of being related to the absence of virulence. A total of 7 structural regions, 40 predicted glycosylations and 31 sequence motifs have been obtained. Those elements may help direct future research efforts, starting by its experimental validation.
Keywords: proteïnes moonlighting
moonlighting proteins
virulence
homology
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 8-Jun-2021
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/  
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