Prediction of proteinase cleavage sites in polyproteins of coronaviruses and its applications in analyzing SARS‐CoV genomes

FEBS Letters

Zheng, Wen-Xin¹  Zhang, Chun-Ting¹  Gao, Feng¹  Ou, Hong-Yu¹  Chen, Ling-Ling¹ 

[1] Department of Physics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China

关键词: Coronavirus;    Severe acute respiratory syndrome;    SARS-coronavirus;    Polyprotein;    Cleavage site;   

DOI  :  10.1016/S0014-5793(03)01091-3

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Recently, we have developed a coronavirus-specific gene-finding system, ZCURVE_CoV 1.0. In this paper, the system is further improved by taking the prediction of cleavage sites of viral proteinases in polyproteins into account. The cleavage sites of the 3C-like proteinase and papain-like proteinase are highly conserved. Based on the method of traditional positional weight matrix trained by the peptides around cleavage sites, the present method also sufficiently considers the length conservation of non-structural proteins cleaved by the 3C-like proteinase and papain-like proteinase to reduce the false positive prediction rate. The improved system, ZCURVE_CoV 2.0, has been run for each of the 24 completely sequenced coronavirus genomes in GenBank. Consequently, all the non-structural proteins in the 24 genomes are accurately predicted. Compared with known annotations, the performance of the present method is satisfactory. The software ZCURVE_CoV 2.0 is freely available at http://tubic.tju.edu.cn/sars/.

【 授权许可】

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