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ArticleRSC advances2022

Design of a multi-epitope vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: immunoinformatic and computational methods.

Md Oliullah Rafi, Khattab Al-Khafaji, Md Takim Sarker, Tugba Taskin-Tok, Abdus Samad Rana, Md Shahedur Rahman

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Article in RSC advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 56 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 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Md Oliullah RafiDepartment of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Jashore University of Science and Technology Jashore 7408 Bangladesh ms.rahman@just.edu.bd rafi.btech.bd@gmail.com takimsarker27@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1707-655X
Khattab Al-KhafajiDepartment of Medical Laboratory Technology, AL-Nisour University College Baghdad Iraq k.a.alkhafaji@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2165-9256
Md Takim SarkerDepartment of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Jashore University of Science and Technology Jashore 7408 Bangladesh ms.rahman@just.edu.bd rafi.btech.bd@gmail.com takimsarker27@gmail.com.
Tugba Taskin-TokDepartment of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Gaziantep University Gaziantep 27310 Turkey ttaskin@gantep.edu.tr.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0064-8400
Abdus Samad RanaSchool of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University Wuxi 214122 PR China ranagebt@gmail.com.
Md Shahedur RahmanDepartment of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Jashore University of Science and Technology Jashore 7408 Bangladesh ms.rahman@just.edu.bd rafi.btech.bd@gmail.com takimsarker27@gmail.com.
Al-Nisour University College · IQGaziantep University · TRJiangnan University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel infectious agent, SARS-CoV-2, is responsible for causing the severe respiratory disease COVID-19 and death in humans. Spike glycoprotein plays a key role in viral particles entering host cells, mediating receptor recognition and membrane fusion, and are considered useful targets for antiviral vaccine candidates. Therefore, computational techniques can be used to design a safe, antigenic, immunogenic, and stable vaccine against this pathogen. Drawing upon the structure of the S glycoprotein, we are trying to develop a potent multi-epitope subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine was designed based on cytotoxic T-lymphocyte and helper T-lymphocyte epitopes with an N-terminal adjuvant

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PMCPMC8981096
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