id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-294212-nlekz39f Wang, Dongliang Immunoinformatic Analysis of T- and B-Cell Epitopes for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Design 2020-07-03 .txt text/plain 6072 305 54 Linear B-cell epitopes of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein were predicted by BepiPred 2.0 in IEDB (BepiPred 2.0., Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA) with a threshold of 0.55 (corresponding specificity > 0.817 and sensitivity < 0.292), and only the epitopes with more than 8 residues were considered for subsequent antigenicity analysis. Discontinuous B-cell epitopes were predicted via the DiscoTope 2.0 server tool in IEDB with a default threshold of −3.7 (corresponding specificity > 0.75 and sensitivity < 0.47), based on the 3-dimensional (3D) structures of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein (PDB ID: 6VYB, B chain) and the SARS-CoV-2 S protein RBD (PDB ID: 6M0J, B chain). It is worth noting that one epitope ( 786 QILPDPLKPTKRSFIEDLLFNKVTLA 811 ) located in the S2 subunit of the SARS-CoV S protein is an important linear B-cell epitope capable of eliciting the production of a neutralizing antibody (NAb) identified in patients who recovered from SARS-CoV infection (Table S2 ) [13] . ./cache/cord-294212-nlekz39f.txt ./txt/cord-294212-nlekz39f.txt