Proteomics in vaccinology and immunobiology:an informatics perspective of the immunone

Abstract

The postgenomic era, as manifest, inter alia, by proteomics, offers unparalleled opportunities for the efficient discovery of safe, efficacious, and novel subunit vaccines targeting a tranche of modern major diseases. A negative corollary of this opportunity is the risk of becoming overwhelmed by this embarrassment of riches. Informatics techniques, working to address issues of both data management and through prediction to shortcut the experimental process, can be of enormous benefit in leveraging the proteomic revolution.In this disquisition, we evaluate proteomic approaches to the discovery of subunit vaccines, focussing on viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasite systems. We also adumbrate the impact that proteomic analysis of host-pathogen interactions can have. Finally, we review relevant methods to the prediction of immunome, with special emphasis on quantitative methods, and the subcellular localization of proteins within bacteria.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/S1110724303209232
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Pharmacy School
College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: Copyright © 2003 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publication ISSN: 1110-7251
Last Modified: 09 Jan 2024 08:04
Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2015 13:35
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2003-12
Authors: Doytchinova, Irini A.
Taylor, Paul
Flower, Darren R. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-8542-7067)

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