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Epitope Design from Transporter Targets in N. gonorrhoeae

Debmalya Barh1* and Amarendra Narayana Misra2
1Centre for Genomics and Applied Gene Technology, IIOAB, Nonakuri, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India
2Dept of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Orissa, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Debmalya Barh,
Centre for Genomics and Applied Gene Technology,
IIOAB, Nonakuri, Purba Medinipur, WB- 721172, India,
Tel       : +91-9449 5500 32,
E-mail: dr.barh@gmail.com
Received October 04, 2009; Accepted November 24, 2009; Published November 24, 2009
Citation: Barh D, Misra AN (2009) Epitope Design from Transporter Targets in N. gonorrhoeae. J Proteomics Bioinform 2: 475-480.. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000108
Copyright: ©2009 Barh D, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract

Gonococcal infection and transmission is a global health problem and till date no effective vaccine is available to prevent the disease transmission. Recently, analysing membrane proteome of N. gonorrhoeae we have shown that, several membrane associated proteins of the gonococcus
might be important in developing anti-gonorrhoea drugs. Here, we explored the possibility of such 19 essential membrane transporter targets those may be useful in developing peptide vaccines too. Using a classical in silico technique, we have identified four best epitopes from three transporters. All identified epitopes are antigenic and predicted to induce both the T- and B-cell mediated immune
responses and transmembrane helix prediction shows that, selected epitopes are mostly outside of the membrane that indicates the suitability of these epitopes to be potential peptide vaccine candidates. Identified epitopes require experimental validation.

 
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