A novel in-silico approach to design a multiepitope peptide as a vaccine candidate for Aeromonashydrophila

Mahdieh SobhZahedi, Mohammad Hossein YektaKooshali · 2024

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Mahdieh SobhZahedi and Mohammad Hossein YektaKooshali design a vaccine candidate on the computer in a 2024 paper on Aeromonas hydrophila. This rod-shaped bacterium lives in freshwater and sewage, infects fish and people, and has grown resistant to many antibiotics, yet no commercial vaccine works well against it.

Working in silico, the authors pulled the bacterial genome, listed its open reading frames, and screened them for toxicity, allergenicity, immune strength, and similarity to host proteins. From the survivors they assembled a multiepitope peptide, a single construct carrying several immune targets at once. The design offers a candidate for lab testing against a hard-to-treat pathogen.

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CREATORMahdieh SobhZahedi, Mohammad Hossein YektaKooshali
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE44 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11647838

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