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ArticleViruses2022

Multi-Epitope Vaccine for Monkeypox Using Pan-Genome and Reverse Vaccinology Approaches.

Rayapadi G Swetha, Soumya Basu, Sudha Ramaiah, Anand Anbarasu

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Article in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rayapadi G SwethaMedical and Biological Computing Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology (SBST), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6299-7825
Soumya BasuMedical and Biological Computing Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology (SBST), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3617-2106
Sudha RamaiahDepartment of Biosciences, School of Biosciences and Technology (SBST), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, India.
Anand AnbarasuMedical and Biological Computing Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology (SBST), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, India.
Vellore Institute of Technology University · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outbreaks of monkeypox virus infections have imposed major health concerns worldwide, with high morbidity threats to children and immunocompromised adults. Although repurposed drugs and vaccines are being used to curb the disease, the evolving traits of the virus, exhibiting considerable genetic dynamicity, challenge the limits of a targeted treatment. A pan-genome-based reverse vaccinology approach can provide fast and efficient solutions to resolve persistent inconveniences in experimental vaccine design during an outbreak-exigency. The approach encompassed screening of available monkeypox whole genomes (n = 910) to identify viral targets. From 102 screened viral targets, viral proteins L5L, A28, and L5 were finalized based on their location, solubility, and antigenicity. The potential T-cell and B-cell epitopes were extracted from the proteins using immunoinformatics tools and algorithms. Multiple vaccine constructs were designed by combining the epitopes. Based on immunological properties, chemical stability, and structural quality, a novel multi-epitopic vaccine construct, V4, was finalized. Flexible-docking and coarse-dynamics simulation portrayed that the V4 had high binding affinity towards human HLA-proteins (binding energy < -15.0 kcal/mol) with low conformational fluctuations (<1 Å). Thus, the vaccine construct (V4) may act as an efficient vaccine to induce immunity against monkeypox, which encourages experimental validation and similar approaches against emerging viral infections.

Indexed as

Mpox, MonkeypoxVaccinesChildEpitopes, B-LymphocyteHumansMolecular Docking SimulationVaccinologyEpitopes, B-LymphocyteVaccinesepitopeimmunoinformaticsmonkeypoxpan-genomevaccinevirus

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PMID36423113
PMCPMC9695528
OpenAlexW4308973274

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