The invention provides a design method for improving the
population coverage rate of a multi-
epitope vaccine, which comprises the following steps: carrying out
epitope prediction on B cells and T cells according to candidate proteins to obtain
B cell epitopes and
T cell epitopes; setting a sliding window for the candidate
antigen protein; judging whether the needed
epitope exists in the sliding window or not; if the needed epitope exists, shortening the length of the window by one
amino acid, and judging whether the specifically bound MHC-I / II
allele is reduced or not; if the MHC-1 / II
allele is reduced, the window shortening operation is revoked, and overlapping epitopes which are specifically combined with the maximum MHC-1 / II
allele are reserved, so that candidate overlapping epitopes are obtained. According to the invention, a three-type epitope maximization strategy based on a sliding window is adopted, and
population coverage rate maximization and dual
immune recognition are realized in a vaccine construct with a compact structure by recognizing the number of specific binding MHC-I / II alleles and the number of partially overlapped
B cell epitope amino acids.