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Revelation of Potent Epitopes Present in Unannotated ORF Antigens of SARS-CoV-2 for Epitope-Based Polyvalent Vaccine Design Using Immunoinformatics Approach.
Uttamrao, Patil Pranita; Sathyaseelan, Chakkarai; Patro, L Ponoop Prasad; Rathinavelan, Thenmalarchelvi.
  • Uttamrao PP; Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India.
  • Sathyaseelan C; Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India.
  • Patro LPP; Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India.
  • Rathinavelan T; Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India.
Front Immunol ; 12: 692937, 2021.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1403473
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) kills thousands of people worldwide every day, thus necessitating rapid development of countermeasures. Immunoinformatics analyses carried out here in search of immunodominant regions in recently identified SARS-CoV-2 unannotated open reading frames (uORFs) have identified eight linear B-cell, one conformational B-cell, 10 CD4+ T-cell, and 12 CD8+ T-cell promising epitopes. Among them, ORF9b B-cell and T-cell epitopes are the most promising followed by M.ext and ORF3c epitopes. ORF9b40-48 (CD8+ T-cell epitope) is found to be highly immunogenic and antigenic with the highest allele coverage. Furthermore, it has overlap with four potent CD4+ T-cell epitopes. Structure-based B-cell epitope prediction has identified ORF9b61-68 to be immunodominant, which partially overlaps with one of the linear B-cell epitopes (ORF9b65-69). ORF3c CD4+ T-cell epitopes (ORF3c2-16, ORF3c3-17, and ORF3c4-18) and linear B-cell epitope (ORF3c14-22) have also been identified as the candidate epitopes. Similarly, M.ext and 7a.iORF1 (overlap with M and ORF7a) proteins have promising immunogenic regions. By considering the level of antigen expression, four ORF9b and five M.ext epitopes are finally shortlisted as potent epitopes. Mutation analysis has further revealed that the shortlisted potent uORF epitopes are resistant to recurrent mutations. Additionally, four N-protein (expressed by canonical ORF) epitopes are found to be potent. Thus, SARS-CoV-2 uORF B-cell and T-cell epitopes identified here along with canonical ORF epitopes may aid in the design of a promising epitope-based polyvalent vaccine (when connected through appropriate linkers) against SARS-CoV-2. Such a vaccine can act as a bulwark against SARS-CoV-2, especially in the scenario of emergence of variants with recurring mutations in the spike protein.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins / COVID-19 Vaccines / SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 / Antigens, Viral Type of study: Prognostic study Topics: Vaccines / Variants Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Front Immunol Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Fimmu.2021.692937

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins / COVID-19 Vaccines / SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 / Antigens, Viral Type of study: Prognostic study Topics: Vaccines / Variants Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Front Immunol Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Fimmu.2021.692937