دورية أكاديمية
Discovery of Bacterial Key Genes from 16S rRNA-Seq Profiles That Are Associated with the Complications of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Provide Therapeutic Indications
العنوان: | Discovery of Bacterial Key Genes from 16S rRNA-Seq Profiles That Are Associated with the Complications of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Provide Therapeutic Indications |
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المؤلفون: | Md. Kaderi Kibria, Md. Ahad Ali, Muhammad Yaseen, Imran Ahmad Khan, Mashooq Ahmad Bhat, Md. Ariful Islam, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Md. Nurul Haque Mollah |
المصدر: | Pharmaceuticals, Vol 17, Iss 4, p 432 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Pharmacy and materia medica |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | SARS-CoV-2 infections, bacterial co-infections, 16S rRNA-seq profiles, bacterial key genes (bKGs), drug repurposing, bioinformatics analysis, Medicine, Pharmacy and materia medica, RS1-441 |
الوصف: | SARS-CoV-2 infections, commonly referred to as COVID-19, remain a critical risk to both human life and global economies. Particularly, COVID-19 patients with weak immunity may suffer from different complications due to the bacterial co-infections/super-infections/secondary infections. Therefore, different variants of alternative antibacterial therapeutic agents are required to inhibit those infection-causing drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. This study attempted to explore these bacterial pathogens and their inhibitors by using integrated statistical and bioinformatics approaches. By analyzing bacterial 16S rRNA sequence profiles, at first, we detected five bacterial genera and taxa (Bacteroides, Parabacteroides, Prevotella Clostridium, Atopobium, and Peptostreptococcus) based on differentially abundant bacteria between SARS-CoV-2 infection and control samples that are significantly enriched in 23 metabolic pathways. A total of 183 bacterial genes were found in the enriched pathways. Then, the top-ranked 10 bacterial genes (accB, ftsB, glyQ, hldD, lpxC, lptD, mlaA, ppsA, ppc, and tamB) were selected as the pathogenic bacterial key genes (bKGs) by their protein–protein interaction (PPI) network analysis. Then, we detected bKG-guided top-ranked eight drug molecules (Bemcentinib, Ledipasvir, Velpatasvir, Tirilazad, Acetyldigitoxin, Entreatinib, Digitoxin, and Elbasvir) by molecular docking. Finally, the binding stability of the top-ranked three drug molecules (Bemcentinib, Ledipasvir, and Velpatasvir) against three receptors (hldD, mlaA, and lptD) was investigated by computing their binding free energies with molecular dynamic (MD) simulation-based MM-PBSA techniques, respectively, and was found to be stable. Therefore, the findings of this study could be useful resources for developing a proper treatment plan against bacterial co-/super-/secondary-infection in SARS-CoV-2 infections. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1424-8247 |
Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/17/4/432; https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8247 |
DOI: | 10.3390/ph17040432 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/9e700dea4527450d8d895e09ba07734d |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9e700dea4527450d8d895e09ba07734d |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 14248247 |
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DOI: | 10.3390/ph17040432 |