Global landscape of SARS-CoV-2 mutations and conserved regions

Publisher:
Springer Nature
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Journal of Translational Medicine, 2023, 21, (1), pp. 152
Issue Date:
2023-02-25
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BackgroundAt the end of December 2019 a novel strain of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 SARS CoV 2 disease COVID 19 has been identified in Wuhan a central city in China and then spread to every corner of the globe As of October 8 2022 the total number of COVID 19 cases had reached over 621 million worldwide with more than 6 56 million confirmed deaths Since SARS CoV 2 genome sequences change due to mutation and recombination it is pivotal to surveil emerging variants and monitor changes for improving pandemic management Methods10 287 271 SARS CoV 2 genome sequence samples were downloaded in FASTA format from the GISAID databases from February 24 2020 to April 2022 Python programming language version 3 8 0 software was utilized to process FASTA files to identify variants and sequence conservation The NCBI RefSeq SARS CoV 2 genome accession no NC 045512 2 was considered as the reference sequence ResultsSix mutations had more than 50 frequency in global SARS CoV 2 These mutations include the P323L 99 3 in NSP12 D614G 97 6 in S the T492I 70 4 in NSP4 R203M 62 8 in N T60A 61 4 in Orf9b and P1228L 50 0 in NSP3 In the SARS CoV 2 genome no mutation was observed in more than 90 of nsp11 nsp7 nsp10 nsp9 nsp8 and nsp16 regions On the other hand N nsp3 S nsp4 nsp12 and M had the maximum rate of mutations In the S protein the highest mutation frequency was observed in aa 508 635 0 77 and aa 381 508 0 43 The highest frequency of mutation was observed in aa 66 88 2 19 aa 7 14 and aa 164 246 2 92 in M E and N proteins respectively ConclusionTherefore monitoring SARS CoV 2 proteomic changes and detecting hot spots mutations and conserved regions could be applied to improve the SARS CoV 2 diagnostic efficiency and design safe and effective vaccines against emerging variants
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