Strategies for vaccine design for corona virus using Immunoinformatics techniques
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The cutting-edge technology vaccinomics is the combination of two topics immunogenetics and immunogenomics with the knowledge of systems biology and immune profiling for designing vaccine against infectious disease. In our present study, an epitope-based peptide vaccine against nonstructural protein 4 of beta coronavirus, using a combination of B cell and T cell epitope predictions, followed by molecular docking methods are performed. Here, protein sequences of homologous nonstructural protein 4 of beta coronavirus are collected and conserved regions present in them are investigated via phylogenetic study to determine the most immunogenic part of protein. From the identified region of the target protein, the peptide sequence IRNTTNPSAR from the region ranging from 38-47 and the sequence PTDTYTSVYLGKFRG from the positions of 76-90 are considered as the most potential B cell and T cell epitopes respectively. Furthermore, this predicted T cell epitopes PTDTYTSVY and PTDTYTSVYLGKFRG interacted with MHC allelic proteins HLA-A*01:01 and HLA-DRB5*01:01 respectively with the low IC 50 values. These epitopes are perfectly fitted into the epitope binding grooves of alpha helix of MHC I molecule and MHC II molecule with binding energy scores −725.0 Kcal/mole and −786.0 Kcal/mole respectively, showing stability in MHC molecules binding. This MHC restricted epitope PTDTYTSVY also showed a good conservancy of 50.16% in world population coverage. This MHC I HLA-A*01:01 allele is present among 58.87% of Chinese population also. Therefore, the epitopes IRNTTNPSAR and PTDTYTSVYLGKFRG may be considered as potential peptides for peptide-based vaccine for coronavirus after further experimental study.
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources 2.1 Retrieval of Non-structural protein NS4 in Beta coronavirus HKU24: The protein family information of Coronavirus nonstructural protein NS4 containing 78 protein is retrieved from InterPro database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/entry/InterPro/IPR005603/). InterProsuggested: (InterPro, RRID:SCR_006695)To find conserved region, retrieved sequences were aligned using Muscle tool 3.8.31 [8] where k-mer clustering is used. Musclesuggested: (MUSCLE, RRID:SCR_011812)To identify the molecular interactions with specific HLA protein for respective epitopes, docking studies are performed with … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.02.27.967422: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources 2.1 Retrieval of Non-structural protein NS4 in Beta coronavirus HKU24: The protein family information of Coronavirus nonstructural protein NS4 containing 78 protein is retrieved from InterPro database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/entry/InterPro/IPR005603/). InterProsuggested: (InterPro, RRID:SCR_006695)To find conserved region, retrieved sequences were aligned using Muscle tool 3.8.31 [8] where k-mer clustering is used. Musclesuggested: (MUSCLE, RRID:SCR_011812)To identify the molecular interactions with specific HLA protein for respective epitopes, docking studies are performed with ClusPro 2.2 web server [26]. ClusProsuggested: (ClusPro, RRID:SCR_018248)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
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