Dengue virus (DENV) and FIBONACCI- and LUCAS-numbers - A first look by Stefan Geier
Dengue virus (DENV) and FIBONACCI- and LUCAS-numbers - A first look by Stefan Geier "DENV contains 10 723 nucleotides in a single-strand positive RNA genome, which encodes a large polyprotein precursor of 3 391 amino-acid residues." (Vivek Dhar Dwivedi et al.) The 21th FIBONACCI-number is 10 946. The 17th LUCAS-number is 3 571 (a LUCAS prime). The genome length of DENV fits the 21th FIBONACCI-number with 97.96 % precision. The proteom length of DENV fits the 17th LUCAS-number 3 571 (a LUCAS prime) with 94.96 % precision. Therefore, we conclude that the Dengue virus (DENV) fits our considerations on FIBONACCI- and LUCAS-numbers and GEIER's equations. The polyprotein of DENV comprises three structural proteins (C, prM and E) and (five or) seven nonstructural proteins (NS1, NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B and NS5). 3 is a LUCAS- and a FIBONACCI-number; 5 is a FIBONACCI-number; 7 is a LUCAS-number. This corroborates the above. Reference: Genomics, proteomics and evolution of de...