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Clostridioides difficile (CD) cause a severe diarrhea which can lead to pseudomembranous colitis and even patient death. CD infection (CDI) is connected mainly with changes in intestinal microbiota as a consequence of antibiotic treatment. The growing resistance to antibiotics, justifies the search for new methods of combating CD. Despite of ongoing research on the immunity against the pathogen, there is still lack of any reliable vaccine. Most recently, Cwp22, that is a cross-linking enzyme involved in the production of CD peptidoglycan, seems to be a promising target to prevent CDI in high-risk patients. In this paper, the Cwp22 protein polypeptide-specific epitopes were mapped in silico and using PEPSCAN procedure. They were recognized not only by antibodies from CDI patients' but also by umbilical cord blood sera. We identified three epitopes 54 EFRVAT 59 , 201 KVNGKM 20  6 and 268 WQEKNGKKYY 277 of Cwp22 protein. Since Cwp22 protein has key functionality and the described above epitopes are also recognized by umbilical cord blood serum, we postulate that they could have important protective properties. In this paper, we propose Cwp22 protein as a good antigen candidate for CDI preventive vaccine. Our results open the possibility to use 54 EFRVAT 59 , 201 KVNGKM 20  6 and 268 WQEKNGKKYY 277 , epitopes as suitable anti-CD vaccine antigens.

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Mapping Epitopes of a Novel Peptidoglycan Cross-Linking Enzyme Cwp22 Recognized by Human Sera Obtained from Patients with Clostridioides difficile Infection and Cord Blood