Designing an efficient multi-epitope peptide vaccine against Vibrio cholerae via combined immunoinformatics and protein interaction based approaches

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2016, Pages 82-95

  Nezafat, Navid ^a   Karimi, Zeinab ^a,b   Eslami, Mahboobeh ^a   Mohkam, Milad ^a,b   Zandian, Sanam ^a   Ghasemi, Younes ^a,b,c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; Bioinformatics; Epitope vaccine; Molecular dynamics simulation; Protective immunity; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; BINS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CONFORMATIONS; DISEASES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEINS; VACCINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADJUVANT; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTECTIVE IMMUNITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EPITOPES;

CHOLERA VACCINE; EPITOPE; HLA A ANTIGEN; SUBUNIT VACCINE;

BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; DRUG DESIGN; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CHOLERA VACCINES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DRUG DESIGN; EPITOPES; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; VACCINES, SUBUNIT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84963960848     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2016.04.006     Document Type: Article

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