Computational approaches to identify common subunit vaccine candidates against bacterial meningitis

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-164

  Munikumar, Manne ^a   Priyadarshini, I Vani ^a   Pradhan, Dibyabhaba ^a   Umamaheswari, Amineni ^a   Vengamma, Bhuma ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

bacterial meningitis; epitope based docking, molecular dynamics; MHC class II molecule; subunit vaccine; T cell epitope

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; SUBUNIT VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

EID: 84883262273     PISSN: 19132751     EISSN: 18671462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12539-013-0161-1     Document Type: Article

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