In silico prediction of T-cell and B-cell epitopes of human papillomavirus type 16 L1 protein

Taherkhani, R and Mahmoudvand, S and Shokri, S and Makvandi, M and Rashno, M and Jalilian, F.A and Angali, K.A (2021) In silico prediction of T-cell and B-cell epitopes of human papillomavirus type 16 L1 protein. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. ISSN 08854513

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Abstract

Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) is one of the most important cause of developing cervical cancer. Therefore, effective epitope-based vaccine design for HPV-16 would be of major medical benefit. The aim of our study was to identify B- and T-cell epitopes of HPV-16 L1 protein. In this study, the HPV-16 L1 gene was isolated from HPV recovered from five vaginal swab samples using specific primers and finally sequenced. The ExPASy translate tool (http://web.expasy.org/translate/) was used to convert nucleotide sequence into amino acid sequence. Bioinformatic analysis was employed to predict suitable B- and T-cell epitopes and immunogenicity, allergenicity, and toxicity of predicted epitopes were then evaluated. Afterward, the selected T-cell epitopes were docked using Molegro Virtual Docker software. The two epitopes 207AMDFTTLQA215 and 200MVDTGFGAM208 have showed a very strong binding affinity to HLA-A0201 and HLA-B3501 molecules, respectively. Outcome of B-cell epitope prediction showed that epitope 475KAKPKFTLGKRK ATPTTSSTSTTAKRKK502 contained overlapped epitope, which might be the epitope associated with the production of neutralizing antibody response. Based on this finding, the predicted B- and T-cell epitopes are promising targets for epitope-based vaccine development against HPV-16. Further in vivo and in vitro experiments are needed to confirm our findings.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: QU Biochemistry
Divisions: Vice Chancellery for Research > Persian_Gulf_Biomedical_Sciences_Research_Institute
Depositing User: خدیجه شبانکاره
Date Deposited: 04 Sep 2021 06:58
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2021 06:58
URI: http://eprints.bpums.ac.ir/id/eprint/9380

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