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Biomed Res Int . Computational Analysis of Missense Variants in the Human Transmembrane Protease Serine 2 ( TMPRSS2) and SARS-CoV-2

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Biomed Res Int


. 2021 Oct 19;2021:9982729.
doi: 10.1155/2021/9982729. eCollection 2021.
Computational Analysis of Missense Variants in the Human Transmembrane Protease Serine 2 ( TMPRSS2) and SARS-CoV-2


Asmae Saih[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Meryem Bouqdayr[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Hanâ Baba[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Salsabil Hamdi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Samya Moussamih[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Houda Bennani[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Rachid Saile[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Lahcen Wakrim[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Anass Kettani[SUP] 2 [/SUP]



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Abstract

The human transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2) protein plays an important role in prostate cancer progression. It also facilitates viral entry into target cells by proteolytically cleaving and activating the S protein of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In the current study, we used different available tools like SIFT, PolyPhen2.0, PROVEAN, SNAP2, PMut, MutPred2, I-Mutant Suite, MUpro, iStable, ConSurf, ModPred, SwissModel, PROCHECK, Verify3D, and TM-align to identify the most deleterious variants and to explore possible effects on the TMPRSS2 stability, structure, and function. The six missense variants tested were evaluated to have deleterious effects on the protein by SIFT, PolyPhen2.0, PROVEAN, SNAP2, and PMut. Additionally, V160M, G181R, R240C, P335L, G432A, and D435Y variants showed a decrease in stability by at least 2 servers; G181R, G432A, and D435Y are highly conserved and identified posttranslational modifications sites (PTMs) for proteolytic cleavage and ADP-ribosylation using ConSurf and ModPred servers. The 3D structure of TMPRSS2 native and mutants was generated using 7 meq as a template from the SwissModeller group, refined by ModRefiner, and validated using the Ramachandran plot. Hence, this paper can be advantageous to understand the association between these missense variants rs12329760, rs781089181, rs762108701, rs1185182900, rs570454392, and rs867186402 and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2.
 
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