Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Biomed Res Int. 2022 Sep 17;2022:4975721. doi: 10.1155/2022/4975721. eCollection 2022.
is found in the natural aquatic environment and can resist a wide range of environmental conditions. There are around fifty species of Legionella, at least twenty-four of which are directly linked to infections in humans. is the cause of Legionnaires' disease, a potentially lethal form of pneumonia. By blocking phagosome-lysosome fusion, lives and proliferates inside macrophages. For this disease, there is presently no authorized multiepitope vaccine available. For the multi-epitope-based vaccine (MEBV), the best antigenic candidates were identified using immunoinformatics and subtractive proteomic techniques. Several immunoinformatics methods were utilized to predict B and T cell epitopes from vaccine candidate proteins. To construct an vaccine, epitopes (07 CTL, 03 HTL, and 07 LBL) were carefully selected and docked with MHC molecules (MHC-I and MHC-II) and human TLR4 molecules. To increase the immunological response, the vaccine was combined with a 50S ribosomal adjuvant. To maximize vaccine protein expression, MEBV was cloned and reverse-translated in . To prove the MEBV's efficacy, more experimental validation is required. After its development, the resulting vaccine is greatly hoped to aid in the prevention of infections.
存在于自然水生环境中,可以抵抗广泛的环境条件。军团菌属约有五十个种,其中至少有二十四个种与人类感染直接相关。是军团病的病原体,这是一种潜在致命性的肺炎形式。通过阻断吞噬体-溶酶体融合,在巨噬细胞内生存和增殖。对于这种疾病,目前没有批准的多表位疫苗。对于基于多表位的疫苗(MEBV),使用免疫信息学和消减蛋白质组学技术来确定最佳的抗原候选物。使用几种免疫信息学方法从疫苗候选蛋白中预测 B 细胞和 T 细胞表位。为了构建疫苗,精心选择了表位(07 CTL、03 HTL 和 07 LBL),并与 MHC 分子(MHC-I 和 MHC-II)和人类 TLR4 分子对接。为了提高免疫反应,将疫苗与 50S 核糖体佐剂结合使用。为了最大限度地提高疫苗蛋白的表达,将 MEBV 克隆并在 中反向翻译。为了证明 MEBV 的疗效,还需要更多的实验验证。在其开发之后,非常希望这种疫苗能有助于预防感染。