Development of Subunit Vaccine Candidate for Prevention of Dengue Fever Using Immunoinformatics Methods

Abstract

A vaccine prototype against dengue virus was designed based on the analysis of the outer-membrane domains of the dengue virus capsid protein. In order to predict the epitope structures, the three-dimensional structures of the domains were modeled using the AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence system. The retention of the structural stability of all studied subdomains was demonstrated by molecular dynamics simulations of vaccine candidates using the Gromacs-2023 program package. The ability of the vaccine candidate to induce a pronounced primary cell immune response and a stable secondary immune response was predicted with the C-IMMSIMM server.