Description
SARS-CoV-2 Nonstructural Protein 2 (NSP2) is one of the sixteen nonstructural proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19 (1). SARS-CoV-2 NSP2 is 638 amino acids (aa) with a theoretical molecular weight of 70.5 kDa (1,2). The amino acid sequence alignment of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2's NSP2 has 68.3% sequence identity and 90% sequence similarity (1). SARS-CoV-2 NSP2 is shown to bind two host proteins, prohibitin 1 (PHB1) and prohibitin 2 (PHB2) (1). The NSP2-PHB protein interaction indicates that SARS-CoV-2 NBP2 might function in disturbing the host-cell environment during viral infection (1). A SARS-CoV-2 interactome study revealed that NSP2 has a role in vesicle trafficking, specifically reconfiguring endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi trafficking during viral infection via the WASH complex (Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome protein and scar homologue complex) (2).
References
1. Yoshimoto F. K. (2020). The Proteins of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2 or n-COV19), the Cause of COVID-19. The Protein Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10930-020-09901-4
2. Gordon, D. E., Jang, G. M., Bouhaddou, M., Xu, J., Obernier, K., White, K. M., O'Meara, M. J., Rezelj, V. V., Guo, J. Z., Swaney, D. L., Tummino, T. A., Huttenhain, R., Kaake, R. M., Richards, A. L., Tutuncuoglu, B., Foussard, H., Batra, J., Haas, K., Modak, M., Kim, M., ... Krogan, N. J. (2020). A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2286-9
Bioinformatics
| Product By Gene ID |
43740578 |
| Alternate Names |
- Non-structural protein 2
- NSP2
- p65 homolog
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