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Design of peptide epitope from the neuraminidase protein of influenza A and influenza B towards short peptide vaccine development

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Bioinformation. 2018 May 31;14(5):183-189. doi: 10.6026/97320630014183. eCollection 2018.
[h=1]Design of peptide epitope from the neuraminidase protein of influenza A and influenza B towards short peptide vaccine development.[/h] Sankar S[SUP]1[/SUP], Ramamurthy M[SUP]1[/SUP], Suganya S[SUP]1[/SUP], Nandagopal B[SUP]1[/SUP], Sridharan G[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Influenza viruses A and B are important human respiratory pathogens causing seasonal, endemic and pandemic infections in several parts of the globe with high morbidity and considerable mortality. The current inactivated and live attenuated vaccines are not effective. Therefore, it is of interest to design universal influenza virus vaccines with high efficacy. The peptide GQSVVSVKLAGNSSL of pandemic influenza, the peptide DKTSVTLAGNSSLCS of seasonal influenza and the peptide DILLKFSPTEITAPT of influenza B were identified as potential linear cell mediated epitopes. The epitopes predicted by BepiPred (B-cell epitope designer) program was subjected to docking experiment-using HexDock and CABS dock programs. The epitopes of pandemic H1N1 influenza A gave similar score of high affinity in docking. The epitope DKTSVTLAGNSSLCS of seasonal influenza A and epitope DILLKFSPTEITAPT of influenza B had high binding energy. It is further observed that the peptides GQSVVSVKLAGNSSL (pandemic influenza), DKTSVTLAGNSSLCS (seasonal influenza) DILLKFSPTEITAPT (influenza B) are found to interact with some known MHC class II alleles. These peptides have high-affinity binding with known MHC class II alleles. Thus, they have the potential to elicit cell immune response. These vaccines have to be further evaluated in animal models and human volunteers. These findings have application in the development of peptide B-cell epitope vaccines against influenza viruses.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Influenza virus; Neuraminidase; epitopes

PMID: 30108413 PMCID: PMC6077822 DOI: 10.6026/97320630014183
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