Bibliographic citations
Piamonte, A., Vise, V. (2022). Predicción in silico de dianas de cistein proteasas de Porphyromonas gingivalis y serín proteasas de Treponema denticola en el tejido nervioso [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12121
Piamonte, A., Vise, V. Predicción in silico de dianas de cistein proteasas de Porphyromonas gingivalis y serín proteasas de Treponema denticola en el tejido nervioso []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12121
@misc{renati/910404,
title = "Predicción in silico de dianas de cistein proteasas de Porphyromonas gingivalis y serín proteasas de Treponema denticola en el tejido nervioso",
author = "Vise López, Vilma Alejandra",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by neurotoxic fragments, which are a result of the cleavage of precursor proteins by proteases, and which are responsible for neurodegeneration and neuronal death [1]. In Alzheimer disease, the neurotoxic fragments are formed by the accumulation of Aβ peptides and hyperphosphorylated Tau proteins, called senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, respectively. These aggregates can be induced in mice experiments by two bacteria of the oral microbiota, Porphyromonas gingivalis and Treponema denticola [2][3][4]. Both bacterias cause chronic periodontitis, a condition that arises from oral dysbiosis and has been associated as a risk factor for Alzheimer's [5]. Both P. gingivalis and T. denticola are able to enter the bloodstream and spread to different parts of the body [5]. In fact, both bacteria have been found in the brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer's disease, and it has even been found that P. gingivalis cysteine proteases, known as gingipains, can cleave Tau protein into neurotoxic fragments that are prone to clumping [2][6]. Nervous tissue seems to have targets of gingipains as suggested by a recent study, where a group of proteins overexpressed in nervous tissue infected by P. ginginvalis was predicted as polypeptides susceptible to cleavage by gingipains. However, the methodology was weak as it did not follow a rigorous sequence-based analysis or predict the exact cleavage site [7]. In the case of T. denticola, it is not known how it induces the aggregation of neurotoxic peptides, but it is possible that it is mediated by digestion by proteases. Therefore, in this study we propose the in silico search for targets of cysteine proteases (including gingipain) from P. gingivalis and serine proteases from T. denticola, exploring the proteome of the nervous tissue affected in Alzheimer's disease. The existence of proteins, in the brain, digestible by proteases of bacteria that cause chronic periodontitis, would be additional evidence of the possible role of these bacteria in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
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