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Ebola Virus L Polymerase RdRp Sequence and Phylogenetic Analysis

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Macromolecular and sub-cellular biophysics

Abstract

Ebola Virus (EBOV) infection affects humans beings in the last four decades with the deadliest outbreak at 2015 in West Africa, leaving more than 10,000 deaths. The virus harms the liver of the patient when direct contact with contaminated body fluids or blood is occurred. L polymerase is one of the viral proteins responsible for the viral RNA replication. Inhibition of the viral polymerase succeeded is in stopping the infection of other viruses such as Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) protein database has 2123 sequences for L polymerase. In present research, the sequence and phylogenetic analysis are utilized to understand the non-redundant sequence coming from different countries. Based on the sequence similarity, the solved structure of vesicular stomatitis virus (PDB ID: 5A22) is used in this work to suggest the active site of the EBOV RdRp domain. Two newly released sequences (APT69557.1 and ALX33626.1 for the Sudan and Zaire, respectively) are based on the phylogenetic analysis, show interestingly a divert, mutation and distance from its subgroups suggesting a new emerged isoform of EBOV RdRp. The active site motif, GDN, would be targeted by polymerase inhibitors succeeded in other viruses to get stop the infection

DOI

10.21608/ejbbe.2019.17450.1027

Keywords

L polymerase, EBOV, GDN motif, Phylogenetic analysis, sequence alignment

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

El gohary

MiddleName

Ismail

Affiliation

Physics Dpt., faculty of science (boys), Al azhar University

Email

mohelgohary@yahoo.com

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55

First Name

Amir

Last Name

Eissa

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Affiliation

Physics Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Email

amiraisa@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Abdo

Last Name

Elfiky

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Email

abdoelfikky@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Amr

Last Name

Desouky

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr city, Cairo, Egypt

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amrdesoky89@gmail.com

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Volume

20

Article Issue

1

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10424

Issue Date

2019-01-01

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2019-09-28

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2019-01-01

Page Start

29

Page End

36

Print ISSN

1110-8525

Online ISSN

2357-0911

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https://ejbbe.journals.ekb.eg/article_54479.html

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109

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics

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https://ejbbe.journals.ekb.eg/

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Ebola Virus L Polymerase RdRp Sequence and Phylogenetic Analysis

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Created At

22 Jan 2023