Hepatitis B virus is a human infectious disease universally caused by the hepatitis
B virus. Its genome size is 3.215 kb. Immunoinformatics tools have been used to predict
the epitopes from seven putative protein viz. polymerase, large-S- and middle –SProtein,
S and X- protein, Precore/Core Protein, Core and E- antigen. Total 50 epitopes
were predicted for MHC class I and 55 epitopes for class II MHC molecules. These
epitopes showed highest binding score at optimum threshold. Epitopes may use as an
antigen for diagnosis and also might be helpful for designing peptide based subunit
vaccine against Hepatitis B virus. |