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Increasing antimicrobial resistance and the absence of approved vaccines underscore the urgent need for alternative preventive strategies. Traditional vaccine approaches are often inadequate against genetically diverse MDR pathogens, prompting the use of computational immunology and reverse vaccinology for vaccine design. Objectives: This study aimed to design and characterize a novel multi-epitope subunit vaccine (MEV) candidate against C. violaceum using a comprehensive pangenome-guided subtractive proteomics and immunoinformatics pipeline to identify conserved antigenic targets capable of eliciting strong immune responses. Methods: Comparative genomic analysis across eight C. violaceum strains identified 3144 core genes. Subtractive proteomics filtering yielded two essential, non-homologous, surface-accessible, and antigenic proteins\u2014penicillin-binding protein 1A (Pbp1A) and organic solvent tolerance protein (LptD)\u2014as vaccine targets. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL), helper T-lymphocyte (HTL), and B-cell epitopes were predicted and integrated into a 272-amino-acid MEV construct adjuvanted with human \u03b2-defensin-4A using optimal linkers. The construct was evaluated through structural modeling, molecular docking with TLR4, molecular dynamics simulation, immune simulation, and in silico cloning into the pET-28a(+) vector. Results: The MEV construct exhibited strong antigenicity, non-allergenicity, and non-toxicity, with stable tertiary structure and favorable physicochemical properties. Docking and dynamics simulations demonstrated high binding affinity and stability with TLR4 (\u0394G = \u221216.2 kcal\/mol), while immune simulations predicted durable humoral and cellular immune responses with broad population coverage (\u224889%). Codon optimization confirmed high expression potential in E. coli K12. Conclusions: The pangenome-guided immunoinformatics approach enabled the identification of conserved antigenic proteins and rational design of a promising multi-epitope vaccine candidate against MDR C. violaceum. The construct exhibits favorable immunogenic and structural features, supporting its potential for experimental validation and future development as a preventive immunotherapeutic against emerging MDR pathogens.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ph19010029","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,22]],"date-time":"2025-12-22T16:19:26Z","timestamp":1766420366000},"page":"29","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Pangenome-Guided Reverse Vaccinology and Immunoinformatics Approach for Rational Design of a Multi-Epitope Subunit Vaccine Candidate Against the Multidrug-Resistant Pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum: A Computational Immunopharmacology Perspective"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6486-9835","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Khaled S.","family":"Allemailem","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Laboratories, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"70","DOI":"10.4103\/2229-516X.96814","article-title":"Chromobacterium violaceum: A rare bacterium isolated from a wound over the scalp","volume":"2","author":"Kumar","year":"2012","journal-title":"Int. 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