Bioinformatics prediction on glutathione S-transferase antigen epitopes of Echinoccocus granulosus / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyse the secondary structure of glutathions S-transferase of Echinoccocus granulosus(EgGST)and predict the B cell and T cell epitopes with informatics tools,in order to provide basic data and references for the following design of epitope vaccine.Methods The B cell and T cell epitopes of EgGST were predicted by DNAstar,Biosun software and Propred MHC class-Ⅱ Binding Peptide Prediction Server software.Results Many distinct antigenic epitopes of EgGST were identified by comput-er,there existed 8 B cell epitopes and 7 T cell epitopes.Conclusion Analysis of predicted epitopes of EgGST antigenic might be sig-nificant for future research of epitope vaccine.