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ArticleMicrobial pathogenesis2020

Identification B and T-Cell epitopes and functional exposed amino acids of S protein as a potential vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19.

Maryam Tohidinia, Fatemeh Sefid

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Article in Microbial pathogenesis, 2020. 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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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. SARS-CoV-2 reinfection with a virus harboring mutation in the Spike and the Nucleocapsid proteins in Panama.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  6. Design of a Multi-epitope Vaccine AgainstInternational journal of peptide research and therapeutics · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maryam TohidiniaDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. Electronic address: Maryamtohidi90@yahoo.com.
Fatemeh SefidDepartment of Medical Genetics, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran; Department of Biology, Science and Art University, Yazd, Iran. Electronic address: sefid.fateme@yahoo.com.
Yazd University · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus that it disease spreads in over the world. Coronaviruses are single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses with a genome of approximately 30 KD, the largest genome among RNA viruses. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. At this time, there are no specific vaccines or treatments for COVID-19. So, there is an emergency need for vaccines and antiviral strategies. The spike protein is the major surface protein that it uses to bind to a receptor of another protein that acts as a doorway into a human cell. The putative antigenic epitopes may prove effective as novel vaccines for eradication and combating of COV19 infection. A combination of available bioinformatics tools are used to synthesis of such peptides that are important for the development of a vaccine. In conclusion, amino acids 250-800 were selected as effective B cell epitopes, T cell epitopes, and functional exposed amino acids in order to a recombinant vaccine against coronavirus.

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Binding SitesCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesDrug DesignEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansModels, MolecularProtein ConformationSARS-CoV-2Sequence AlignmentSequence Homology, Amino AcidSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusCOVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19Spike proteinT and B cell epitopes predictionVaccine design

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PMID32835775
PMCPMC7441888
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