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mRNA Vaccine Designing Using Chikungunya Virus E Glycoprotein through Immunoinformatics-Guided Approaches.

Samavia Jaan, Aqal Zaman, Sarfraz Ahmed, Mohibullah Shah, Suvash Chandra Ojha

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Article in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Samavia JaanDepartment of Biochemistry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 66000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-4194-9349
Aqal ZamanDepartment of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 66000, Pakistan.
Sarfraz AhmedDepartment of Basic Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore, Narowal 51600, Pakistan.
Mohibullah ShahDepartment of Biochemistry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 66000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-6126-7102
Suvash Chandra OjhaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1289-2985
Bahauddin Zakariya University · PKAffiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University · CNUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences · PK

Funding

Doctoral Research Funding China Doctoral Research Fund awarded to SCO.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus transmitted by mosquitos that develops into chikungunya fever and joint pain in humans. This virus' name originated from a Makonde term used to describe an illness that changes the joints and refers to the posture of afflicted patients who are affected by excruciating joint pain. There is currently no commercially available drug or vaccine for chikungunya virus infection and the treatment is performed by symptom reduction. Herein, we have developed a computationally constructed mRNA vaccine construct featuring envelope glycoprotein as the target molecule to aid in the treatment process. We have utilized the reverse vaccinology approach to determine epitopes that would generate adaptive immune reactions. The resulting T and B lymphocytes epitopes were screened by various immunoinformatic tools and a peptide vaccine construct was designed. It was validated by proceeding to docking and MD simulation studies. The following design was then back-translated in nucleotide sequence and codons were optimized according to the expression host system (

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chikungunyaimmunoinformaticsmRNA vaccinevaccinology

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PMCPMC9500984
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