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ArticleScientific reports2022

Bioinformatics approach for the construction of multiple epitope vaccine against omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Sumera Zaib, Fatima Akram, Syed Talha Liaqat, Muhammad Zain Altaf, Imtiaz Khan, Ayed A Dera, Jalal Uddin, Ajmal Khan, Ahmed Al-Harrasi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Sumera ZaibDepartment of Basic and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan. sumera.zaib@ucp.edu.pk.
Fatima AkramDepartment of Basic and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Syed Talha LiaqatDepartment of Basic and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Muhammad Zain AltafDepartment of Basic and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Imtiaz KhanDepartment of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK. kimtiaz@hotmail.co.uk.
Ayed A DeraDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Jalal UddinDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Abha, 62529, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ajmal KhanNatural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, 616, Nizwa, Oman.
Ahmed Al-HarrasiNatural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, 616, Nizwa, Oman. aharrasi@unizwa.edu.om.
University of Central Punjab · PKKing Khalid University · SAUniversity of Nizwa · OMUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

University of Nizwa BFP/RGP/HSS/19/198
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization categorized SARS-CoV-2 as a variant of concern, having numerous mutations in spike protein, which have been found to evade the effect of antibodies stimulated by the COVID-19 vaccine. The susceptibility to omicron variant by immunization-induced antibodies are direly required for risk evaluation. To avoid the risk of arising viral illness, the construction of a specific vaccine that triggers the production of targeted antibodies to combat infection remains highly imperative. The aim of the present study is to develop a particular vaccine exploiting bioinformatics approaches which can target B- and T-cells epitopes. Through this approach, novel epitopes of the S protein-SARS-CoV-2 were predicted for the development of a multiple epitope vaccine. Multiple epitopes were selected on the basis of toxicity, immunogenicity and antigenicity, and vaccine subunit was constructed having potential immunogenic properties. The epitopes were linked with 3 types of linker EAAAK, AAY and GPGPG for vaccine construction. Subsequently, vaccine structure was docked with the receptor and cloned in a pET-28a (+) vector. The constructed vaccine was ligated in pET-28a (+) vector in E. coli using the SnapGene tool for the expression study and a good immune response was observed. Several computational tools were used to predict and analyze the vaccine constructed by using spike protein sequence of omicrons. The current study identified a Multi-Epitope Vaccine (MEV) as a significant vaccine candidate that could potentially help the global world to combat SARS-CoV-2 infections.

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COVID-19Viral VaccinesComputational BiologyCOVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteEscherichia coliHumansImmunogenicity, VaccineSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusCOVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2Viral Vaccines

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