Development of epitope‐based peptide vaccine against novel Coronavirus 2019 (SARS‐COV‐2): Immunoinformatics approach
Manojit Bhattacharya Ashish Ranjan Sharma Prasanta Patra Pratik Ghosh Garima Sharma Bidhan Chandra Patra Sang‐Soo Lee Chiranjib Chakraborty
First published:28 February 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25736
ABSTRACT
Recently, a novel Coronavirus (SARS‐COV‐2) emerged which is responsible for the recent outbreak in Wuhan, China. Genetically, it is closely related to the SARS‐CoV and MERS‐CoV. The situation is getting worse and worse, therefore, there is an urgent need for designing a suitable peptide vaccine component against the SARS‐COV‐2. Here, we characterized spike glycoprotein to obtain immunogenic epitopes. Next, we chose 13 Major Histocompatibility Complex‐(MHC) I and 3 MHC‐II epitopes, having antigenic properties. These epitopes are usually linked to specific linkers to build vaccine components and molecularly dock on Toll‐Like Receptor (TLR)‐5 to get binding affinity. Therefore, in order to provide a fast immunogenic profile of these epitopes we performed immunoinformatics analysis so that rapid development of vaccine might bring this disastrous situation to the end earlier.