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ArticleMedical microbiology and immunology2019

Development of a novel multiepitope chimeric vaccine against anthrax.

Somya Aggarwal, Vikas Kumar Somani, Sonal Gupta, Rajni Garg, Rakesh Bhatnagar

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Article in Medical microbiology and immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Somya AggarwalLaboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Vikas Kumar SomaniLaboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Sonal GuptaLaboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Rajni GargLaboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Rakesh BhatnagarLaboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India. rakeshbhatnagar@jnu.ac.in.
Jawaharlal Nehru University · INWashington University in St. Louis · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacillus anthracis (BA), the etiological agent of anthrax, secretes protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor (EF) as major virulence mediators. Amongst these, PA-based vaccines are most effective for providing immunity against BA, but their low shelf life limits their usage. Previous studies showed that B-cell epitopes, ID II and ID III present in PA domain IV possess higher toxin neutralization activity and elicit higher antibody titer than ID I. Moreover, N-terminal region of both LF and EF harbors PA-binding sites which share 100% identity with each other. Here, in this study, we have developed an epitope-based chimeric vaccine (ID-LFn) comprising ID II-ID III region of PA and N-terminal region of LF. We have also evaluated its protective efficacy as well as stability and found it to be more stable than PA-based vaccine. Binding reactivities of ID-LFn with anti-PA/LF/EF antibodies were determined by ELISA. The stability of chimeric vaccine was assessed using circular dichroism spectroscopy. ID-LFn response was characterized by toxin neutralization, lymphocyte proliferation isotyping and cytokine profiling. The protective efficacy was analyzed by challenging ID-LFn-immunized mice with B. anthracis (pXO1

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AnimalsAnthraxAnthrax VaccinesAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsCircular DichroismDisease Models, AnimalDrug StabilityEpitopesFemaleMice, Inbred BALB CSurvival AnalysisT-LymphocytesVaccines, Syntheticanthrax toxinAnthrax VaccinesAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsEpitopesVaccines, SyntheticBacillus anthracisChimeric vaccineEpitopeLethal factorProtective antigen

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