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Aiman, Sara (Aiman, Sara.) | Farooq, Qurrat ul Ain (Farooq, Qurrat ul Ain.) | Han, Zhongjie (Han, Zhongjie.) | Aslam, Muneeba (Aslam, Muneeba.) | Zhang, Jilong (Zhang, Jilong.) | Khan, Asifullah (Khan, Asifullah.) | Ahmad, Abbas (Ahmad, Abbas.) | Li, Chunhua (Li, Chunhua.) (Scholars:李春华) | Ali, Yasir (Ali, Yasir.)

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Prevention of Clostridium difficile infection is challenging worldwide owing to its high morbidity and mortality rates. C. difficile is currently being classified as an urgent threat by the CDC. Devising a new therapeutic strategy become indispensable against C. difficile infection due to its high rates of reinfection and increasing antimicrobial resistance. The current study is based on core proteome data of C. difficile to identify promising vaccine and drug candidates. Immunoinformatics and vaccinomics approaches were employed to construct multi-epitope-based chimeric vaccine constructs from top-ranked T- and B-cell epitopes. The efficacy of the designed vaccine was assessed by immunological analysis, immune receptor binding potential and immune simulation analyses. Additionally, subtractive proteomics and druggability analyses prioritized several promising and alternative drug targets against C. difficile. These include FMN-dependent nitroreductase which was prioritized for pharmacophore-based virtual screening of druggable molecule databases to predict potent inhibitors. A MolPort-001-785-965 druggable molecule was found to exhibit significant binding affinity with the conserved residues of FMN-dependent nitroreductase. The experimental validation of the therapeutic targets prioritized in the current study may worthy to identify new strategies to combat the drug-resistant C. difficile infection.

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  • [ 1 ] [Aiman, Sara]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Farooq, Qurrat ul Ain]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Han, Zhongjie]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Zhang, Jilong]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Li, Chunhua]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
  • [ 6 ] [Aslam, Muneeba]Abdul Wali Khan Univ Mardan, Dept Biochem, Mardan, Pakistan
  • [ 7 ] [Khan, Asifullah]Abdul Wali Khan Univ Mardan, Dept Biochem, Mardan, Pakistan
  • [ 8 ] [Ahmad, Abbas]Abdul Wali Khan Univ Mardan, Dept Biotechnol, Mardan, KP, Pakistan
  • [ 9 ] [Ali, Yasir]Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Sch Biomed Sci, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

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  • 李春华

    [Li, Chunhua]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Environm & Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China;;[Khan, Asifullah]Abdul Wali Khan Univ Mardan, Dept Biochem, Mardan, Pakistan;;[Ali, Yasir]Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Sch Biomed Sci, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

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PLOS ONE

ISSN: 1932-6203

Year: 2024

Issue: 1

Volume: 19

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JCR@2022

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