Research Article

Epitope-Based Immunoinformatic Approach on Heat Shock 70 kDa Protein Complex of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii

Table 1

List of the fifteen linear conserved surface antigenic epitopes of heat shock 70 kDa protein with their surface accessibility score, antigenicity score, beta-turn score, and hydrophilicity score.

StartEndLinear peptideaLengthSurface scorebAntigenicity scorecBeta-turn scoredHydrophilicity scoree

7984PEVEEY61.7481.0270.8973.317
592600ANYVQASEK91.2431.0280.9643.511
593600NYVQASEK81.6251.0241.0023.688
594600YVQASEK71.3351.0590.9233.214
595600VQASEK61.1281.0420.8874.067
468474VKSVEKP71.1181.0790.9592.914
705716QSEKPKNVNPVI121.31.0281.0672.875
706716SEKPKNVNPVI111.0021.0291.0752.591
707716EKPKNVNPVI101.0031.0311.0392.2
504513EVEKEEEVTV101.1151.0240.7173.88
735741ILNKPKP71.2571.0241.0970.771
735745ILNKPKPKPKV111.8441.0431.0651.382
735746ILNKPKPKPKVT121.9951.0321.0571.7
469476KSVEKPAS81.5441.0311.0374.088
749756TPQQPPAQ82.9971.0261.143.95

Top promising epitopes for their ideal length and physiochemical properties. aBepiPred Linear default threshold value 0.249. bEmini surface accessibility default threshold value 1.000. cKolaskar and Tongaonkar antigenicity default threshold value 1.024. dChou and Fasman beta-turn default threshold value 0.950. eParker hydrophilicity default threshold value 1.949.