Söllner Johannes
Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Gersthofer Straße 29-31, 1180, Vienna, Austria,
Methods Mol Biol. 2015;1268:291-312. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2285-7_13.
Immunoinformatics focuses on modeling immune responses for better understanding of the immune system and in many cases for proposing agents able to modify the immune system. The most classical of these agents are vaccines derived from living organisms such as smallpox or polio. More modern vaccines comprise recombinant proteins, protein domains, and in some cases peptides. Generating a vaccine from peptides however requires technologies and concepts very different from classical vaccinology. Immunoinformatics therefore provides the computational tools to propose peptides suitable for formulation into vaccines. This chapter introduces the essential biological concepts affecting design and efficacy of peptide vaccines and discusses current methods and workflows applied to design successful peptide vaccines using computers.
免疫信息学专注于对免疫反应进行建模,以便更好地理解免疫系统,并且在许多情况下用于提出能够调节免疫系统的药物。其中最经典的药物是源自天花或脊髓灰质炎等生物体的疫苗。更现代的疫苗包括重组蛋白、蛋白结构域,在某些情况下还包括肽。然而,从肽制备疫苗需要与传统疫苗学截然不同的技术和概念。因此,免疫信息学提供了计算工具,用于提出适合制成疫苗的肽。本章介绍影响肽疫苗设计和功效的基本生物学概念,并讨论目前用于利用计算机设计成功的肽疫苗的方法和工作流程。