Reverse Vaccinology and Vaccine Antigens
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Attenuated/Inactivated/Live and Vectored Vaccines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 30745
Special Issue Editor
Interests: porcine; chicken and fish vaccinology; identification of novel vaccine antigens; reverse vaccinology; antibody repertoire; DNA vaccination; mucosal vaccination
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Dear Colleagues,
It is not always possible to identify vaccine antigens by classical strategies. Therefore, novel identification strategies based, at least partly, on bioinformatic analyses have been developed over the last years. For example, reverse vaccinology consists in researching genes of the pathogen encoding potential vaccine antigens using specific software and databases. One other example is based on high throughout sequencing and analysis of the antibody repertoire of hosts after infection with a given pathogen. This could help to identify sequences of antibodies specifically involved in the protection against this pathogen, which will then make it possible to go back to the targeted epitope, again by bioinformatics analyses. Such strategies were first applied to develop novel human vaccines. Afterwards, similar strategies were employed in the veterinary field.
The aim of this specific issue is to publish papers describing the development or optimization of human or veterinary vaccines identified through reverse vaccinology or other strategies partly based on bioinformatics (for example after antibody repertoire analysis). This issue will also contains papers describing the development of novel bioinformatics strategies enabling the research of vaccine antigens or papers showing novel methods enabling the expression of antigens identified by bioinformatics strategies. This will include B and/or T-cell antigens.
Dr. Daniel Dory
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- novel reverse vaccinology tools
- antibodies sequencing
- human and veterinary vaccine antigens identified through bioinformatic based strategies
- B-cell antigen identification
- T-cell antigen identification
- bacteria, viral of parasite vaccine antigens
- antigen vectors
- antigen expression
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