Evaluation of LamB linear and conformational epitopes on the Vibrio harveyi

Vibriosis is one of the most serious infectious diseases in fish and shellfish. However, due to the diversity of pathogens and their complicated serotypes, the progress in vaccine development against Vibriosis has been slow. LamB proteins (or maltoporins) are a family of OMPs. It forms a betabarrel composed of three monomers and ensures the transport of maltose and maltodextrin in Gram-negative bacteria reported that recombinant Aeromonas hydrophila outer membrane protein 48, which belongs to the maltoporin group of porins, induces a protective immune response against A. hydrophila and E. tarda. There has been no other report of immunological characteristics of LamB so far. Nowadays, bioinformatics is reliably working in biology researches. It could be harnessed in vaccine plan as well as epitope mapping drives. In the present study we exploit bioinformatic tools to introduce the best regions of LamB as antigenic determinants in order to design (a) novel construct (s) as vaccine or diagnostics.

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Bioinformatic , Vibriosis , vaccine , LamB