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ArticleVeterinary world2025

Immunoinformatic development of a multiepitope messenger RNA vaccine targeting lipoate protein ligase and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase proteins of

Dhafer Rasheed Al-Fetly, Dhama Alsallami, Amjed Alsultan

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Dhafer Rasheed Al-FetlyDepartment of Internal and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Diwaniyah, Iraq.
Dhama AlsallamiDepartment of Physiology, Pharmacology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Diwaniyah, Iraq.
Amjed AlsultanDepartment of Internal and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Diwaniyah, Iraq.

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Background and Aim: Materials and Methods: Two conserved surface-exposed proteins - lipoate protein ligase (LplA) and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (PdhD) - were selected as vaccine targets. T- and B-cell epitopes were predicted using Immune Epitope Database and evaluated for antigenicity, allergenicity, toxicity, and conservancy. Selected epitopes were linked using specific amino acid linkers and combined with a resuscitation-promoting factor E (RpfE) adjuvant and untranslated regions (hemoglobin subunit beta and rabbit beta-globin) to improve translation and stability. The vaccine construct was modeled and validated through physicochemical profiling, secondary and tertiary structure prediction, molecular-docking with bovine toll-like receptors 4 (TLR4), and codon optimization. Molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to assess the stability of the vaccine-receptor complex. Results: The modeled vaccine construct contained five cytotoxic T lymphocyte, six helper T lymphocyte, and five B-cell epitopes. The construct was predicted to be highly antigenic (score: 0.835), non-allergenic, and non-toxic. Structural validation showed 93.5% of residues in favored regions of the Ramachandran plot and a Z-score of -10.6. Docking simulations revealed strong binding affinity to bovine TLR4, supported by robust molecular dynamics simulation outcomes, including high stability, low eigenvalues, and favorable covariance patterns. Codon optimization yielded a guanine-cytosine content of 59.8% and a codon adaptation index of 0.87, indicating efficient expression in cattle. The predicted mRNA structure exhibited good thermodynamic stability (minimum free energy: -321.42 kcal/mol). Conclusion: This study presents a computationally designed mRNA vaccine candidate against

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cattleepitope predictionimmunoinformaticmessenger RNA vaccinemultiepitope vaccineMycoplasma bovis

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