Epitope imprinting is an effective strategy to prepare molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for protein recognition. Indeed, the idea to use as a template just a fragment of the protein of interest, called the epitope, instead of the whole protein, presents some key advantages for the imprinting process, in particular: cutting the costs for MIP production and avoiding protein unfolding during the imprinting process, so to ultimately improve the quality of the stamped binding sites. How to select an epitope for the imprinting is the strategic question. Here, the bioinformatics tools to search for suitable epitopes for the imprinting process and rational tools to select the most suitable epitope are briefly introduced along with protocols for their practical use.

The Search for Peptide Epitopes for Molecular Imprinting Through Bioinformatics

Bossi, Alessandra Maria
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2021-01-01

Abstract

Epitope imprinting is an effective strategy to prepare molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for protein recognition. Indeed, the idea to use as a template just a fragment of the protein of interest, called the epitope, instead of the whole protein, presents some key advantages for the imprinting process, in particular: cutting the costs for MIP production and avoiding protein unfolding during the imprinting process, so to ultimately improve the quality of the stamped binding sites. How to select an epitope for the imprinting is the strategic question. Here, the bioinformatics tools to search for suitable epitopes for the imprinting process and rational tools to select the most suitable epitope are briefly introduced along with protocols for their practical use.
2021
978-1-0716-1628-4
Bioinformatics
Epitope imprinting
Epitope prediction
Molecularly imprinted polymers
Protein database
Protein imprinting
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