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Designing a Multi-Epitope Subunit Vaccine against VP1 Major Coat Protein of JC Polyomavirus.

Sukhada Kanse, Mehak Khandelwal, Rajan Kumar Pandey, Manoj Khokhar, Neetin Desai, Bajarang Vasant Kumbhar

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Article in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sukhada KanseDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sunandan Divatia School of Science, NMIMS (Deemed to be) University, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai 400056, Maharashtra, India.
Mehak KhandelwalDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sunandan Divatia School of Science, NMIMS (Deemed to be) University, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai 400056, Maharashtra, India.
Rajan Kumar PandeyDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2135-5287
Manoj KhokharDepartment of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur 342005, Rajasthan, India.ORCID 0000-0001-7106-8545
Neetin DesaiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sunandan Divatia School of Science, NMIMS (Deemed to be) University, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai 400056, Maharashtra, India.
Bajarang Vasant KumbharDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sunandan Divatia School of Science, NMIMS (Deemed to be) University, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai 400056, Maharashtra, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3839-9809
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur · INKarolinska Institutet · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The JC polyomavirus virus (JCPyV) affects more than 80% of the human population in their early life stage. It mainly affects immunocompromised individuals where virus replication in oligodendrocytes and astrocytes may lead to fatal progressive multifocal encephalopathy (PML). Virus protein 1 (VP1) is one of the major structural proteins of the viral capsid, responsible for keeping the virus alive in the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts. VP1 is often targeted for antiviral drug and vaccine development. Similarly, this study implied immune-informatics and molecular modeling methods to design a multi-epitope subunit vaccine targeting JCPyV. The VP1 protein epitopic sequences, which are highly conserved, were used to build the vaccine. This designed vaccine includes two adjuvants, five HTL epitopes, five CTL epitopes, and two BCL epitopes to stimulate cellular, humoral, and innate immune responses against the JCPyV. Furthermore, molecular dynamics simulation (100 ns) studies were used to examine the interaction and stability of the vaccine protein with TLR4. Trajectory analysis showed that the vaccine and TLR4 receptor form a stable complex. Overall, this study may contribute to the path of vaccine development against JCPyV.

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immuno-informaticsJC polyomavirusmolecular dynamics simulationprogressive multifocal encephalopathy (PML)VP1 protein

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PMID37514998
PMCPMC10386578
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