In silico ligand fitting/docking, computational analysis and biochemical/biophysical validation for protein-RNA recognition and for rational drug design in diseases
Patschull Lafitte-Laplace, Anathe Olivia Maria (2014) In silico ligand fitting/docking, computational analysis and biochemical/biophysical validation for protein-RNA recognition and for rational drug design in diseases. PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London.
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Abstract
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, is a double-stranded DNA γ - herpesvirus and the main causative agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). γ - herpesviruses undergo both lytic and latent replication cycles; and encode proteins that modulate host transcription at the RNA level, by inducing decay of certain mRNAs. Here we describe a mechanism that allows the viral endo-/exonuclease SOX to recognise mRNA targets on the basis of an RNA motif and fold. To induce rapid RNA degradation by subverting the main host mRNA degradation pathway SOX was shown to directly bind Xrn1. This may shed light as to how some viruses evade the host antiviral response and how mRNA degradation processes in the eukaryotic cell are involves in this.
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| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Additional Information: | Date of PhD award confirmed as 2014 by registry |
| Copyright Holders: | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author, who asserts his/her right to be known as such according to the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. No dealing with the thesis contrary to the copyright or moral rights of the author is permitted. |
| Depositing User: | Acquisitions And Metadata |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2014 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2023 12:12 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40084 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18743/PUB.00040084 |
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