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Designing a multiepitope mRNA-based vaccine against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection in calves: Immunoinformatics and molecular modeling approach
is one of the serious pathogens causing various infections in the animal field, such as neonatal calf diarrhea, which is responsible for mortality associated with diarrhea during the first days of life. Current work is aimed at designing an effective and safe multiepitope vaccine candidate against i...
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Published in: | Open veterinary journal (Tripoli, Libya) Libya), 2024-06, Vol.14 (6), p.1417-1425 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | is one of the serious pathogens causing various infections in the animal field, such as neonatal calf diarrhea, which is responsible for mortality associated with diarrhea during the first days of life.
Current work is aimed at designing an effective and safe multiepitope vaccine candidate against
infection in calves based on the fimbrial protein K99 of Enterotoxigenic
(ETEC) and Immuno-informatics.
A conserved sequence of K99 protein was generated, and then highly antigenic, nonallergic, and overlapped epitopes were used to construct a multiepitope vaccine. Five THL, six MHC II, and four beta cell epitopes were targeted to create the candidate. The candidate vaccine was produced utilizing 15 epitopes and three types of linkers, two types of untranslated region (UTR) human hemoglobin subunit beta (HBB), UTR beta-globin (Rabb), and RpfE protein as an immunomodulation adjuvant.
Immuno-informatics analysis of the constructed protein showed that the protein was antigenic (antigenic score of 0.8841), stable, nonallergen, and soluble. Furthermore, the Immuno-informatics and physiochemical analysis of the constructed protein showed a stable, nonallergic, soluble, hydrophilic, and acidic PI (isoelectric point). of 9.34. Docking of the candidate vaccine with the toll-like receptor TLR3 was performed, and results showed a strong interaction between the immune receptor and the vaccine. Finally, the expression efficiency of the construct in
was estimated via computational cloning of the vaccine sequence into Pet28a.
Results of immunoinformatics and
approaches reveal that the designed vaccine is antigenic, stable, and able to bind to the immune cell receptors. Our results interpret the proposed multiepitope mRNA vaccine as a good preventive option against
infection in calves. |
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ISSN: | 2218-6050 2226-4485 2218-6050 |
DOI: | 10.5455/OVJ.2024.v14.i6.9 |