Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2404229 | Vaccine | 2009 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
HPV vaccines available in the market are not effective against different strains of papillomavirus, therefore, there is a need to develop a new prophylactic DNA vaccine which can work against different strains of HPVs and may lead to protection of cervical cancer against new pandemic viruses. We designed a potential prophylactic DNA vaccine by using all the consensus epitopic sequences of HPVs L2 capsid protein and performed in silico cloning of multiepitopic antigenic DNA sequence in pVAX-1 vector. Immunogenicity of vaccine has been enhanced by techniques like codon optimization, engineering CpG motifs, introducing promoters and co-injection with plasmids expressing immune-stimulatory molecules.
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Authors
Shishir Kumar Gupta, Archana Singh, Mugdha Srivastava, Shailendra K. Gupta, Bashir Akhlaq Akhoon,