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ArticleBioinformatics and biology insights2024

Multi-epitope Based Peptide Vaccine Candidate Against

Samson Anjikwi Malgwi, Victoria T Adeleke, Matthew Adekunle Adeleke, Moses Okpeku

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Article in Bioinformatics and biology insights, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Samson Anjikwi MalgwiDiscipline of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8827-8191
Victoria T AdelekeDiscipline of Chemical Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
Matthew Adekunle AdelekeDiscipline of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3271-8442
Moses OkpekuDiscipline of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: Babesiosis is a significant haemoparasitic infection caused by apicomplexan parasites of the genus Method: Rhoptry-associated protein-1 (RAP-1) was used to identify and design a potential multi-epitope vaccine candidate due to its immunogenic properties through an immunoinformatics approach. Results and conclusions: A multi-epitope vaccine comprising 11 CD8+, 17 CD4+, and 3 B-cell epitopes was constructed using the AAY, GPGPG, and KK linkers. Beta-defensin-3 was added as an adjuvant to potentiate the immune response using the EAAK linker. The designed vaccine was computationally predicted to be antigenic (antigenicity scores: 0.6), soluble (solubility index: 0.730), and non-allergenic. The vaccine construct comprises 595 amino acids with a molecular weight of 64 152 kDa, an instability and aliphatic index of 13.89 and 65.82, which confers stability with a Grand average of hydropathicity (GRAVY) value of 0.122, indicating the hydrophobicity of the construct. Europe has the highest combined class population coverage, with a percentage of 96.07%, while Central America has the lowest population coverage, with a value of 22.94%. The DNA sequence of the vaccine construct was optimized and successfully cloned into a pET-28a (+) plasmid vector. Analysis of binding interactions indicated the stability of the complex when docked with Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR-2). The subunit vaccine construct was predicted to induce and boost sufficient host cellular and humoral responses Limitation: This study is purely computational, and further experimental validation of these findings through

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Babesiaimmunoinformaticsin silicolive vaccinesmulti-epitopevaccine design

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