In silico based multi-epitope vaccine design against norovirus. 2023

Pallavi M Shanthappa, and Renuka Suravajhala, and Prashanth Suravajhala, and Geetha Kumar, and Nidheesh Melethadathil
Department Computer Science, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Mysuru, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India.

Norovirus (NoV) belongs to the Calciviridae family that causes diarrhoea, vomiting, and stomach pain in people who have acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Identifying multi-epitope dependent vaccines for single stranded positive sense viruses such as NoV has been a long due. Although efforts have been in place to look into the candidate epitopes, understanding molecular mimicry and finding new epitopes for inducing immune responses against the T/B-cells which play an important role for the cell-mediated and humoral immunity was not dealt with in great detail. The current study focuses on identifying new epitopes from various databases that were filtered for antigenicity, allergenicity, and toxicity. The adjuvant β-defensin along with different linkers were used for vaccine construction. Further, the binding relationship between the vaccine construct and toll-like immune receptor (TLR3) complex was determined using a molecular docking analysis, followed by molecular dynamics simulation of 100 ns. The vaccine candidate developed expresses good solubility with a score of 0.530, Z-score of -4.39 and molecular docking score of -140.4 ± 12.1. The MD trajectories reveal that there is a stability between TLR3 and the developed vaccine candidate with an average of 0.91 nm RMSD value and also the system highest occupancy H-bond formed between GLU127 of TLR3 and TYR10 of vaccine candidate (61.55%). Four more H-bonds exist with an occupancy of more than 32% between TLR3 and the vaccine candidates which makes it stable. Thus, the multi-epitope based vaccine developed in the present study forms the basis for further experimental investigations to develop a potentially good vaccine against NoV.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D051196 Toll-Like Receptor 3 A pattern recognition receptor that binds DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA. It mediates cellular responses to certain viral pathogens. TLR3 Receptor,Receptor, TLR3,Toll Like Receptor 3
D062105 Molecular Docking Simulation A computer simulation technique that is used to model the interaction between two molecules. Typically the docking simulation measures the interactions of a small molecule or ligand with a part of a larger molecule such as a protein. Molecular Docking,Molecular Docking Simulations,Molecular Docking Analysis,Analysis, Molecular Docking,Docking Analysis, Molecular,Docking Simulation, Molecular,Docking, Molecular,Molecular Docking Analyses,Molecular Dockings,Simulation, Molecular Docking
D018984 Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte Antigenic determinants recognized and bound by the T-cell receptor. Epitopes recognized by the T-cell receptor are often located in the inner, unexposed side of the antigen, and become accessible to the T-cell receptors after proteolytic processing of the antigen. T-Cell Epitopes,T-Lymphocyte Epitopes,T-Cell Epitope,T-Lymphocyte Epitope,Epitope, T-Cell,Epitope, T-Lymphocyte,Epitopes, T Lymphocyte,Epitopes, T-Cell,T Cell Epitope,T Cell Epitopes,T Lymphocyte Epitope,T Lymphocyte Epitopes
D018985 Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte Antigenic determinants recognized and bound by the B-cell receptor. Epitopes recognized by the B-cell receptor are located on the surface of the antigen. B-Cell Epitopes,B-Lymphocyte Epitopes,B-Cell Epitope,B-Lymphocyte Epitope,B Cell Epitope,B Cell Epitopes,B Lymphocyte Epitope,B Lymphocyte Epitopes,Epitope, B-Cell,Epitope, B-Lymphocyte,Epitopes, B Lymphocyte,Epitopes, B-Cell
D019295 Computational Biology A field of biology concerned with the development of techniques for the collection and manipulation of biological data, and the use of such data to make biological discoveries or predictions. This field encompasses all computational methods and theories for solving biological problems including manipulation of models and datasets. Bioinformatics,Molecular Biology, Computational,Bio-Informatics,Biology, Computational,Computational Molecular Biology,Bio Informatics,Bio-Informatic,Bioinformatic,Biologies, Computational Molecular,Biology, Computational Molecular,Computational Molecular Biologies,Molecular Biologies, Computational
D022223 Vaccines, Subunit Vaccines consisting of one or more antigens that stimulate a strong immune response. They are purified from microorganisms or produced by recombinant DNA techniques, or they can be chemically synthesized peptides. Subunit Vaccine,Subunit Vaccines,Vaccine, Subunit
D029322 Norovirus A genus in the family CALICIVIRIDAE, associated with epidemic GASTROENTERITIS in humans. The type species, NORWALK VIRUS, contains multiple strains. Norwalk-like Viruses,Small Round-Structured Viruses,Noroviruses,Norwalk like Viruses,Round-Structured Viruses, Small,Small Round Structured Viruses

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