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ArticleExpert review of vaccines2020

Designing an efficient multi-epitope vaccine displaying interactions with diverse HLA molecules for an efficient humoral and cellular immune response to prevent COVID-19 infection.

Soumya Ranjan Mahapatra, Susrita Sahoo, Budheswar Dehury, Vishakha Raina, Shubhransu Patro, Namrata Misra, Mrutyunjay Suar

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Article in Expert review of vaccines, 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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34 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Soumya Ranjan MahapatraSchool of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
Susrita SahooSchool of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
Budheswar DehurySchool of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
Vishakha RainaSchool of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
Shubhransu PatroKalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
Namrata MisraSchool of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
Mrutyunjay SuarSchool of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT-DU) , Bhubaneswar 751024, India.
KIIT University · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the causative agent of the ongoing pandemic COVID-19 disease continues to infect people globally and has infected millions of humans worldwide. However, no effective vaccine against this virus exists.

methodUsing Immunoinformatics, epitopic sequences from multiple glycoproteins that play crucial role in pathogenesis were identified. Particularly, epitopes were mapped from conserved receptor-binding domain of spike protein which have been experimentally validated in SARS-CoV-1 as a promising target for vaccine development.

resultsA multi-epitopic vaccine construct comprising of B-cell, CTL, HTL epitopes was developed along with fusion of adjuvant and linkers. The epitopes identified herein are reported for the first time and were predicted to be highly antigenic, stable, nonallergen, nontoxic and displayed conservation across several SARS-CoV-2 isolates from different countries. Additionally, the epitopes associated with maximum HLA alleles and population coverage analysis shows the proposed epitopes would be a relevant representative of large proportion of the world population. A reliable three-dimensional structure of the vaccine construct was developed. Consequently, docking and molecular-dynamics simulation ensured the stable interaction between vaccine and innate-immune receptor.

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Immunity, CellularImmunity, HumoralAllelesBetacoronavirusComputational BiologyCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesEpitope MappingEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHLA AntigensHumansImmunogenicity, VaccineMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationCOVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHLA AntigensSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusViral VaccinesCOVID-19immunoinformaticsmulti-epitopic vaccinereceptor-binding domainSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32869699
PMCPMC7544970
OpenAlexW3082799465

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