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A Putative Prophylactic Solution for COVID-19: Development of Novel Multiepitope Vaccine Candidate against SARS‐COV‐2 by Comprehensive Immunoinformatic and Molecular Modelling Approach

Hafiz Muzzammel Rehman
,
Muhammad Usman Mirza
* ORCID logo ,
Mahjabeen Saleem
,
Matheus Froeyen
,
Sarfraz Ahmad
ORCID logo ,
Roquyya Gul
,
Muhammad Shahbaz Aslam
,
Muhammad Sajjad
,
Munir Ahmad Bhinder
Version 1 : Received: 13 March 2020 / Approved: 15 March 2020 / Online: 15 March 2020 (12:45:54 CET)

How to cite: Rehman, H.M.; Mirza, M.U.; Saleem, M.; Froeyen, M.; Ahmad, S.; Gul, R.; Aslam, M.S.; Sajjad, M.; Bhinder, M.A. A Putative Prophylactic Solution for COVID-19: Development of Novel Multiepitope Vaccine Candidate against SARS‐COV‐2 by Comprehensive Immunoinformatic and Molecular Modelling Approach. Preprints 2020, 2020030242. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0242.v1 Rehman, H.M.; Mirza, M.U.; Saleem, M.; Froeyen, M.; Ahmad, S.; Gul, R.; Aslam, M.S.; Sajjad, M.; Bhinder, M.A. A Putative Prophylactic Solution for COVID-19: Development of Novel Multiepitope Vaccine Candidate against SARS‐COV‐2 by Comprehensive Immunoinformatic and Molecular Modelling Approach. Preprints 2020, 2020030242. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0242.v1

Abstract

The outbreak of 2019-novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes severe respiratory infection (COVID-19) has spread in China, and the world health organization declared it pandemic. However, no approved drug or vaccines are available, and treatment is mainly supportive and through a few repurposed drugs. In this urgency situation, development of SARS-CoV-2 based vaccines is immediately required. Immunoinformatic and molecular modelling are generally used time-efficient methods to accelerate the discovery and design of the candidate peptides for vaccine development. In recent years, the use of multiepitope vaccines is proved to be a promising immunization strategy against viruses and pathogens, which induce more comprehensive protective immunity. The current study demonstrated a comprehensive in-silico strategy to design stable multiepitope vaccine construct (MVC) from B-cell and T-cell epitopes of essential SARS-CoV-2 proteins with the help of adjuvants and linkers. The integrated molecular dynamics simulations analysis revealed the stability of MVC and its interaction with human Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which trigger an innate and adaptive immune response. Later, the in-silico cloning in a known pET28a vector system also estimated the possibility of MVC expression in E. Coli. Despite this study lacks validation of this vaccine construct in terms of its efficacy, the current integrated strategy encompasses the initial multiple epitope vaccine design concepts. After validation, this MVC can present to be a better prophylactic solution against COVID-19.

Keywords

COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; spike protein; multiepitope vaccine; molecular modeling

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Virology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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