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ArticleNew microbes and new infections2020

Development of a novel platform of virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccine against COVID-19 by exposing epitopes: an immunoinformatics approach.

A Ghorbani, F Zare, S Sazegari, A Afsharifar, M H Eskandari, A Pormohammad

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Article in New microbes and new infections, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

A GhorbaniPlant Virology Research Center, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
F ZarePlant Virology Research Center, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
S SazegariInstitute of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
A AfsharifarPlant Virology Research Center, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
M H EskandariDepartment of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
A PormohammadDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shiraz University · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of a rapidly spreading and highly infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak by a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused a global pandemic with unprecedented social and economic dimensions. Therefore, the development of effective strategies is urgent to control the COVID-19 outbreak. According to recent investigations, cell entry of coronaviruses relies on binding of the viral spike glycoprotein to the host cellular receptors. Therefore, the present study aimed to predict immunogenic epitopes in silico by analysing the spike protein. In parallel, by screening the immunogenic SARS-CoV-2 spike-derived epitopes provided in the literature, we chose a set of epitopes that we believed would induce immunogenic response. Next, provided with the epitopes selected by using both approaches, we performed immunoinformatic analysis that mapped identically to the antigen regions and antigenic properties. Finally, after selecting a screened set of epitopes, we designed a novel virus-like particle vaccine optimized to be produced in plants by using molecular farming biotechnology techniques. Our assay may be used as a starting point for guiding experimental efforts towards the development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.

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COVID-19epitope predictionimmunoinformaticssevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2vaccinevirus-like particles

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PMID33072338
PMCPMC7556220
OpenAlexW3093205583

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