Title Rational design of multi-epitope-based vaccine by exploring all dengue virus serotypes proteome: an immunoinformatic approach.
Author Alsaiari, Ahad Amer; Hakami, Mohammed Ageeli; Alotaibi, Bader S; Alkhalil, Samia S; Hazazi, Ali; Alkhorayef, Nada; Jalal, Khurshid; Yasmin, Farzana
Journal Immunol Res Publication Year/Month 2023-Oct
PMID 37880483 PMCID -N/A-
Affiliation + expend 1.Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia.

Millions of people\'s lives are being devastated by dengue virus (DENV), a severe tropical and subtropical illness spread by mosquitoes and other vectors. Dengue fever may be self-limiting like a common cold or can rapidly progress to catastrophic dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome. With four distinct dengue serotypes (DENV1-4), each with the potential to contain antibody-boosting complicated mechanisms, developing a dengue vaccine has been an ambitious challenge. Here, we used a computational pan-vaccinomics-based vaccine design strategy (reverse vaccinology) for all 4 DENV serotypes acquired from different regions of the world to develop a new and safe vaccine against DENV. Consequently, only five mapped epitopes from all the 4 serotypes were shown to be extremely effective for the construction of multi-epitope vaccine constructs. The suggested vaccine construct V5 from eight vaccine models was thus classified as an antigenic, non-allergenic, and stable vaccine model. Moreover, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation was performed for the V5 vaccine candidate against the HLAs and TRL2 and 4 immunological receptors. Later, the vaccine sequence was transcribed into the cDNA to generate an expression vector for the Escherichia coli K12 strain. Our research suggests that this vaccine design (V5) has promising potential as a dengue vaccine. However, further experimental analysis into the vaccine\'s efficacy might be required for the V5 proper validation to combat all DENV serotypes.

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