Subtractive Genomics Approach for Identification of Novel Therapeutic Drug Targets in Mycoplasma genitalium

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作者
Fatoba, Abiodun Joseph [1 ]
Okpeku, Moses [1 ]
Adeleke, Matthew Adekunle [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sch Life Sci, Discipline Genet, P Bag X54001, ZA-4000 Durban, South Africa
来源
PATHOGENS | 2021年 / 10卷 / 08期
关键词
Mycoplasma genitalium; drug targets; metabolic pathways; pathogen; proteins; subtractive genomics; 2016 EUROPEAN GUIDELINE; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; 2-COMPONENT; INFECTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; URETHRITIS; SECRETION; GENES;
D O I
10.3390/pathogens10080921
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Mycoplasma genitalium infection is a sexually transmitted infection that causes urethritis, cervicitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in men and women. The global rise in antimicrobial resistance against recommended antibiotics for the treatment of M. genitalium infection has triggered the need to explore novel drug targets against this pathogen. The application of a bioinformatics approach through subtractive genomics has proven highly instrumental in predicting novel therapeutic targets against a pathogen. This study aimed to identify essential and non-homologous proteins with unique metabolic pathways in the pathogen that could serve as novel drug targets. Based on this, a manual comparison of the metabolic pathways of M. genitalium and the human host was done, generating nine pathogen-specific metabolic pathways. Additionally, the analysis of the whole proteome of M. genitalium using different bioinformatics databases generated 21 essential, non-homologous, and cytoplasmic proteins involved in nine pathogen-specific metabolic pathways. The further screening of these 21 cytoplasmic proteins in the DrugBank database generated 13 druggable proteins, which showed similarity with FDA-approved and experimental small-molecule drugs. A total of seven proteins that are involved in seven different pathogen-specific metabolic pathways were finally selected as novel putative drug targets after further analysis. Therefore, these proposed drug targets could aid in the design of potent drugs that may inhibit the functionality of these pathogen-specific metabolic pathways and, as such, lead to the eradication of this pathogen.
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