Abstract
Clinical epidemiological studies have reported that viral infections cause autoimmune pathology in humans. Host-pathogen protein sequences and structure-based molecular mimicry cause autoreactive T cells to cross-activate. The aim of the current study was to implement immunoinformatics approaches to infer sequence- and structure-based molecular mimicry between viral and human proteomic datasets. The protein sequences of all the so far known human-infecting viruses were obtained from the VIPR database, and complete human proteome data were retrieved from the NCBI repository. Based on a predefined, stringent threshold of comparative sequence analyses, 24 viral proteins were identified with significant sequence similarity to human proteins. PathDIP identified the enrichment of these homologous proteins in nine metabolic pathways with a p-value < 0.0001. Several viral and human mimic epitopes from these homologous proteins were predicted as strong binders of human HLA alleles, with IC50 < 50 nM. Downstream molecular docking analyses identified that lead virus-human homologous epitopes feasibly interact with HLA and TLR4 types of immune receptors. The vast majority of these top-hit homolog epitopic peptides belong to the herpes simplex and poxvirus families. These lead epitope biological sequences and 3D structural-based molecular mimicry may be promising for interpreting herpes simplex virus and poxvirus infection-mediated autoimmune disorders in humans.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Immunology and Microbiology,Molecular Biology,Immunology and Allergy
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