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ArticleScientific reports2024

Designing a multi-epitope influenza vaccine: an immunoinformatics approach.

Leila Momajadi, Hossein Khanahmad, Karim Mahnam

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Leila MomajadiDepartment of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Hossein KhanahmadDepartment of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. hossein_khanahmad@yahoo.com.
Karim MahnamDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza continues to be one of the top public health problems since it creates annual epidemics and can start a worldwide pandemic. The virus's rapid evolution allows the virus to evade the host defense, and then seasonal vaccines need to be reformulated nearly annually. However, it takes almost half a year for the influenza vaccine to become accessible. This delay is especially concerning in the event of a pandemic breakout. By producing the vaccine through reverse vaccinology and phage display vaccines, this time can be reduced. In this study, epitopes of B lymphocytes, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, and helper T lymphocytes of HA, NA, NP, and M2 proteins from two strains of Influenza A were anticipated. We found two proper epitopes (ASFIYNGRL and LHLILWITDRLFFKC) in Influenza virus proteins for CTL and HTL cells, respectively. Optimal epitopes and linkers in silico were cloned into the N-terminal end of M13 protein III (pIII) to create a multi-epitope-pIII construct, i.e., phage display vaccine. Also, prediction of tertiary structure, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulation, and immune simulation were performed and showed that the designed multi-epitope vaccine can bind to the receptors and stimulate the immune system response.

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Computational BiologyInfluenza VaccinesMolecular Docking SimulationEpitopesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansImmunoinformaticsInfluenza A virusInfluenza, HumanMolecular Dynamics SimulationT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicEpitopesEpitopes, B-LymphocyteEpitopes, T-LymphocyteInfluenza VaccinesImmunoinformaticsInfluenzaMolecular dynamics simulationMulti-epitopePhage display vaccineReverse vaccinology

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PMCPMC11512060

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