Reverse vaccinology approach for the identifications of potential vaccine candidates against Salmonella

Li，Jie1,2; Qiu，Jingxuan1; Huang，Zhiqiang1; Liu，Tao1; Pan，Jing1; Zhang，Qi1; Liu，Qing1,3

2021-07-01

10.1016/j.ijmm.2021.151508

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY   影响因子和分区

1438-4221

1618-0607

Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne pathogen which causes intestinal and systemic diseases across the world. Vaccination is the most effective protection against Salmonella, but the identification and design of an effective broad-spectrum vaccine is still a great challenge, because of the multi-serotypes of Salmonella. Reverse vaccinology is a new tool to discovery and design vaccine antigens combining human immunology, structural biology and computational biology with microbial genomics. In this study, reverse vaccinology, an in-silico approach was established to screen appropriate immunogen targets by calculating the immunogenicity score of 583 non-redundant outer membrane and secreted proteins of Salmonella. Herein among 100 proteins identified with top-ranked scores, 15 representative antigens were selected randomly. Applying the sequence conservation test, four proteins (FliK, BcsZ, FhuA and FepA) remained as potential vaccine candidates for in vivo evaluation of immunogenicity and immunoprotection. All four candidates were capable to trigger the immune response and stimulate the production of antiserum in mice. Furthermore, top-ranked proteins including FliK and BcsZ provided wide antigenic coverage among the multi-serotype of Salmonella. The S. Typhimurium LT2 challenge model used in mice immunized with FliK and BcsZ showed a high relative percentage survival (RPS) of 52.74 % and 64.71 % respectively. In conclusion, this study constructed an in-silico pipeline able to successfully pre-screen the vaccine targets characterized by high immunogenicity and protective immunity. We show that reverse vaccinology allowed screening of appropriate broad-spectrum vaccines for Salmonella.

Computational model Immunoprotective Reverse vaccinology Salmonella Vaccine target

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英语

其他

National Key R&D Program of China["2018YFC1602900","2018YFC1602500"] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[81572809] ; Science and technology innovation plan of Shanghai[18495800400] ; Agricultural Science Promotion Plan of Shanghai[44] ; Natural Science Foundation of China[31871897,31801455] ; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2018M640410] ; National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China[81502504]

Microbiology ; Virology

Microbiology ; Virology

WOS:000671580400002

ELSEVIER GMBH

MICROBIOLOGY

2-s2.0-85108592541

Scopus

1.School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai,China
2.The Second Affiliated Hospital,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,518055,China
3.Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology,Qingdao,China

Li，Jie,Qiu，Jingxuan,Huang，Zhiqiang,et al. Reverse vaccinology approach for the identifications of potential vaccine candidates against Salmonella[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY,2021,311(5).

Li，Jie.,Qiu，Jingxuan.,Huang，Zhiqiang.,Liu，Tao.,Pan，Jing.,...&Liu，Qing.(2021).Reverse vaccinology approach for the identifications of potential vaccine candidates against Salmonella.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY,311(5).

Li，Jie,et al."Reverse vaccinology approach for the identifications of potential vaccine candidates against Salmonella".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 311.5(2021).