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ArticleEuropean journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences2020

High throughput and comprehensive approach to develop multiepitope vaccine against minacious COVID-19.

Rupal Ojha, Nidhi Gupta, Biswajit Naik, Satyendra Singh, Vijay Kumar Verma, Dhaneswar Prusty, Vijay Kumar Prajapati

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Article in European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rupal OjhaDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Nidhi GuptaDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Biswajit NaikDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Satyendra SinghDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Vijay Kumar VermaDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Dhaneswar PrustyDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Vijay Kumar PrajapatiDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, 305817, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Electronic address: vkprajapati@curaj.ac.in.
Central University of Rajasthan · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing enigmatic COVID-19 outbreak, first reported from Wuhan, China, on last day of the year 2019, which has spread to 213 countries, territories/areas till 28th April 2020, threatens hundreds of thousands human souls. This devastating viral infection has stimulated the urgent development of viable vaccine against COVID-19 across the research institutes around the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also confirmed that the recent pandemic is causing Public Health Emergency of International apprehension. Moreover, the earlier two pathogenic SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV and many others yet to be identified pose a universal menace. Here, in this piece of work, we have utilized an in silico structural biology and advanced immunoinformatic strategies to devise a multi-epitope subunit vaccine against ongoing COVID-19 infection. The engineered vaccine sequence is adjuvanted with ß-3 defensin and comprised of B-cell epitopes, HTL epitopes and CTL epitopes. This is very likely that the vaccine will be able to elicit the strong immune response. Further, specific binding of the engineered vaccine and immune cell receptor TLR3 was estimated by molecular interaction studies. Strong interaction in the binding groove as well as good docking scores affirmed the stringency of engineered vaccine. The interaction is stable with minimal deviation in root-mean square deviation and root-mean-square fluctuation was confirmed by the molecular dynamics simulation experiment. The immune-simulation by C-ImmSim server, which mimics the natural immune environment, yielded more potent immune response data of B-cells, Th cells, Tc cells and IgG for vaccine. The encouraging data obtained from the various in-silico works indicated this vaccine as an effective therapeutic against COVID-19.

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Amino Acid SequenceAntigens, ViralBetacoronavirusBinding SitesBiomedical EngineeringB-LymphocytesComputational BiologyComputer SimulationCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesDrug DesignEpitopesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansAntigens, ViralCOVID-19 VaccinesEpitopesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteImmunoglobulin GProteomeToll-Like Receptor 3Viral VaccinesAdjuvantCoronavirusImmune responseMulti-epitopeVaccine

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PMID32417398
PMCPMC7224663
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