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ArticleJournal of global infectious diseases

Epitope Identification and Designing a Potent Multi-epitope Vaccine Construct against SARS-CoV-2 Including the Emerging Variants.

Sivasubramanian Srinivasan, Gracy Fathima Selvaraj, Vidya Gopalan, Padmapriya Padmanabhan, Kiruba Ramesh, Karthikeyan Govindan, Aswathi Chandran, Prabu Dhandapani, Kaveri Krishnasamy, Satish Srinivas Kitambi

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Article in Journal of global infectious diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sivasubramanian SrinivasanDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Gracy Fathima SelvarajDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Vidya GopalanDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Padmapriya PadmanabhanDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kiruba RameshDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Karthikeyan GovindanDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Aswathi ChandranDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Prabu DhandapaniDepartment of Microbiology, Dr. ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kaveri KrishnasamyDepartment of Virology, State Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL), King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Satish Srinivas KitambiDepartment of Translational Sciences, Institute for Healthcare Education and Translational Sciences, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.
King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research · INTranslational Health Science and Technology Institute · INUniversity of Madras · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: The emergence of a novel coronavirus in China has turned into a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic with high fatality. As vaccines are developed through various strategies, their immunogenic potential may drastically vary and thus pose several challenges in offering immune responses against the virus. Methods: In this study, we adopted an immunoinformatics-aided approach for developing a new multi-epitope vaccine construct (MEVC). Results: The computational data suggest that the MEVC is nontoxic, nonallergenic and thermostable and elicit both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses. Subsequently, the biological activity of MEVC was assessed by bioinformatic tools using the interaction between the vaccine candidate and the innate immune system receptors TLR3 and TLR4. The epitopes of the construct were analyzed with that of the strains belonging to various clades including the emerging variants having multiple unique mutations in S protein. Conclusions: Due to the advantageous features, the MEVC can be tested

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Epitopespeptide antigenprophylaxisSARS-CoV-2spike proteinvaccine

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PMID35418729
PMCPMC8996455
OpenAlexW4212978193

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