Affiliation:
1. School of Biotechnology Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar India
2. Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Mysuru India
3. KIIT‐Technology Business Incubator (KIIT‐TBI) Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar India
Abstract
AbstractStaphylococcus aureus has been widely reported to be majorly responsible for causing nosocomial infections worldwide. Due to an increase in antibiotic‐resistant strains, the development of an effective vaccine against the bacteria is the most viable alternative. Therefore, in the current work, an effort has been undertaken to develop a novel peptide‐based vaccine construct against S aureus that can potentially evoke the B and T cell immune responses. The fibronectin‐binding proteins are an attractive target as they play a prominent role in bacterial adherence and host cell invasion and are also well conserved among rapidly mutating pathogens. Therefore, highly immunogenic linear B lymphocytes (LBL), cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), and helper T lymphocytes (HTL) epitopes were identified from the antigenic fibronectin‐binding proteins A and B (FnBPA and FnBPB) of S aureus using immunoinformatics approaches. The selected peptides were confirmed to be non‐allergenic, non‐toxic, and with a high binding affinity to the majority of human leukocyte antigens (HLA) alleles. Consequently, the multi‐peptide vaccine construct was developed by fusing the screened epitopes (three LBL, five CTL, and two HTL) together with the suitable adjuvant and linkers. In addition, the tertiary conformation of the peptide construct was modeled and later docked to the Toll‐like receptor 2. Subsequently, a molecular dynamics simulation of 100 ns was employed to corroborate the stability of the designed vaccine‐receptor complex. Besides exhibiting high immunogenicity and conformational stability, the developed vaccine was observed to possess wide population coverage of 99.51% worldwide. Additional in vivo and in vitro validation studies would certainly corroborate the designed vaccine construct to have improved prophylactic efficacy against S aureus.
Subject
Molecular Biology,Structural Biology
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