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ArticleMolecular biology reports2019

Designing of an epitope-based peptide vaccine against walking pneumonia: an immunoinformatics approach.

P Ambili Unni, A M Mohamed Thoufic Ali, Madhusmita Rout, A Thabitha, S Vino, S Sajitha Lulu

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Article in Molecular biology reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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P Ambili UnniDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India.
A M Mohamed Thoufic AliDepartment of Integrative Biology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India.
Madhusmita RoutDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India.
A ThabithaDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India.
S VinoDepartment of Bio-Sciences, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India.
S Sajitha LuluDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India. ssajithalulu@vit.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3392-4168
Vellore Institute of Technology University · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a substantial respiratory pathogen that develops not only pneumonia but also other respiratory diseases, which mimic viral respiratory syndromes. Nevertheless, vaccine development for this pathogen delays behind as immunity correlated with protection is now predominantly unknown. In the present study, an immunoinformatics pipeline is utilized for epitope-based peptide vaccine design, which can trigger a critical immune response against M. pneumoniae. A total of 105 T-cell epitopes from 12 membrane associated proteins and 7 T-cell epitopes from 5 cytadherence proteins of M. pneumoniae were obtained and validated. Thus, 18 peptides with 9-mer core sequence were identified as best T-cell epitopes by considering the number of residues with > 75% in favored region. Further, the crucial screening studies predicted three peptides with good binding affinity towards HLA molecules as best T-cell and B-cell epitopes. Based on this result, visualization, and dynamic simulation for the three epitopes (WIHGLILLF, VILLFLLLF, and LLAWMLVLF) were assessed. The predicted epitopes needs to be further validated for their adept use as vaccine. Collectively, the study opens up a new horizon with extensive therapeutic application against M. pneumoniae and its associated diseases.

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Amino Acid SequenceComputational BiologyEpitopesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMycoplasma pneumoniaePneumonia, MycoplasmaProtein BindingT-LymphocytesVaccines, SubunitViral VaccinesEpitopesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteVaccines, SubunitViral VaccinesEpitopeImmunoinformaticsMycoplasma pneumoniaePeptideVaccine

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