: Monkeypox is a self-limiting zoonotic viral disease and causes smallpox-like symptoms.
The disease has a case fatality ratio of 3–6% and, recently, a multi-country outbreak of the disease has
occurred. The currently available vaccines that have provided immunization against monkeypox
are classified as live attenuated vaccinia virus-based vaccines, which pose challenges of safety and
efficacy in chronic infections. In this study, we have used an immunoinformatics-aided design
of a multi-epitope vaccine (MEV) candidate by targeting monkeypox virus (MPXV) glycoproteins
and membrane proteins. From these proteins, seven epitopes (two T-helper cell epitopes, four Tcytotoxic cell epitopes and one linear B cell epitopes) were finally selected and predicted as antigenic,
non-allergic, interferon-γ activating and non-toxic. These epitopes were linked to adjuvants to
design a non-allergic and antigenic candidate MPXV-MEV. Further, molecular docking and molecular
dynamics simulations predicted stable interactions between predicted MEV and human receptor
TLR5. Finally, the immune-simulation analysis showed that the candidate MPXV-MEV could elicit a
human immune response. The results obtained from these in silico experiments are promising but
require further validation through additional in vivo experiments.