Sequence

Amino acid position

Length
(mers)

B-Cell antigenic site prediction with Antigenic

GSSVGVVKVK

144

10

AEGCVRVDFL

246

10

EYSCPVLNGK

182

10

RCKLIWQALGLPVPEFAVLYDD

101

22

B-cell epitope prediction with BCPreds

BCPred algorithm 

KSKGIDAYAFDPKETPLSEL

33

20

NGKGLPGIHIIPATEFYDYE

189

20

AAP Prediction algorithm 

LLEINTLPGMTGHSLVPKSA

264

20

YSCPVLNGKGLPGIHIIPAT

183

20

PVPEFAVLYDDTDFDAVEEK

112

20

YGEDGAVQGALELLGIPYTG

68

20

NALKSKGIDAYAFDPKETPL

30

20

Common antigenic B-cell epitope (s)

EYSCPVLNGKGLPGIHIIPAT

182

21
Table 1: Antigenic B-cell epitopes of N. gonorrhoeae ddl. Epitopes are identified by “Antigenic” and two modules of BCpreds. The 21 mers sequence “EYSCPVLNGKGLPGIHIIPAT” was identified following the methode as described in text.