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ArticleCellular immunology2006

A systematic bioinformatics approach for selection of epitope-based vaccine targets.

Asif M Khan, Olivo Miotto, A T Heiny, Jerome Salmon, K N Srinivasan, Eduardo J M Nascimento, Ernesto T A Marques, Vladimir Brusic, Tin Wee Tan, J Thomas August

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Article in Cellular immunology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Asif M KhanDepartment of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117597, Singapore.
Olivo Miotto
A T Heiny
Jerome Salmon
K N Srinivasan
Eduardo J M Nascimento
Ernesto T A Marques
Vladimir Brusic
Tin Wee Tan
J Thomas August
National University of Singapore · SGJohns Hopkins University · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

Dengue Epitope Vaccine,Tetravalent &MHCII-TargetedU19AI056541 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI AUGUST, J. THOMAS · 2003 to 2007
$6.8M
NIAID NIH HHS 5 U19 AI56541NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI056541PHS HHS HHSN2662-00400085C
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epitope-based vaccines provide a new strategy for prophylactic and therapeutic application of pathogen-specific immunity. A critical requirement of this strategy is the identification and selection of T-cell epitopes that act as vaccine targets. This study describes current methodologies for the selection process, with dengue virus as a model system. A combination of publicly available bioinformatics algorithms and computational tools are used to screen and select antigen sequences as potential T-cell epitopes of supertype human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. The selected sequences are tested for biological function by their activation of T-cells of HLA transgenic mice and of pathogen infected subjects. This approach provides an experimental basis for the design of pathogen specific, T-cell epitope-based vaccines that are targeted to majority of the genetic variants of the pathogen, and are effective for a broad range of differences in human leukocyte antigens among the global human population.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsComputational BiologyConserved SequenceDengueDengue VirusEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHLA AntigensHumansInterferon-gammaMiceModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataSequence AlignmentViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral VaccinesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHLA AntigensInterferon-gammaViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral Vaccines

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PMID17434154
PMCPMC2041846
OpenAlexW2060333218

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