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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2021

Design of a new multi-epitope vaccine against

Zhiqiang Chen, Yuejie Zhu, Tong Sha, Zhiwei Li, Yujiao Li, Fengbo Zhang, Jianbing Ding

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Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Bioinformatics-based design of a fusion vaccine with CTLA-4 variable region to combat Brucella.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Zhiqiang ChenDepartment of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830011Xinjiang, China.
Yuejie ZhuDepartment of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830011Xinjiang, China.
Tong ShaDepartment of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830011Xinjiang, China.
Zhiwei LiClinical Laboratory Center, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Hospital, Urumqi, 830001Xinjiang, China.
Yujiao LiDepartment of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830011Xinjiang, China.
Fengbo ZhangDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, No. 393, Xinyi Road, Urumqi, 830011Xinjiang, China.
Jianbing DingDepartment of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830011Xinjiang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5506-7665

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brucellosis is one of the most serious and widespread zoonotic diseases, which seriously threatens human health and the national economy. This study was based on the T/B dominant epitopes of Brucella outer membrane protein 22 (Omp22), outer membrane protein 19 (Omp19) and outer membrane protein 28 (Omp28), with bioinformatics methods to design a safe and effective multi-epitope vaccine. The amino acid sequences of the proteins were found in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database, and the signal peptides were predicted by the SignaIP-5.0 server. The surface accessibility and hydrophilic regions of proteins were analysed with the ProtScale software and the tertiary structure model of the proteins predicted by I-TASSER software and labelled with the UCSF Chimera software. The software COBEpro, SVMTriP and BepiPred were used to predict B cell epitopes of the proteins. SYFPEITHI, RANKpep and IEDB were employed to predict T cell epitopes of the proteins. The T/B dominant epitopes of three proteins were combined with HEYGAALEREAG and GGGS linkers, and carriers sequences linked to the N- and C-terminus of the vaccine construct with the help of EAAAK linkers. Finally, the tertiary structure and physical and chemical properties of the multi-epitope vaccine construct were analysed. The allergenicity, antigenicity and solubility of the multi-epitope vaccine construct were 7.37-11.30, 0.788 and 0.866, respectively. The Ramachandran diagram of the mock vaccine construct showed 96.0% residues within the favoured and allowed range. Collectively, our results showed that this multi-epitope vaccine construct has a high-quality structure and suitable characteristics, which may provide a theoretical basis for future laboratory experiments.

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Amino Acid SequenceAntigens, BacterialBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBrucellaBrucella VaccineBrucellosisComputational BiologyEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansImmunogenicity, VaccineModels, MolecularProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiarySolubilityVaccines, SubunitAntigens, BacterialBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBrucella VaccineEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteVaccines, SubunitBrucellamulti-epitope vaccineOmp19Omp22Omp28

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PMID34032200
PMCPMC8220514

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