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ReviewProceedings of the American Thoracic Society2005

New generation live vaccines against human respiratory syncytial virus designed by reverse genetics.

Peter L Collins, Brian R Murphy

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Review in Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter L CollinsLaboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-8007, USA. pcollins@niaid.nih.gov
Brian R Murphy
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Laboratory Studies of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Other PneumovirusesZIAAI000372 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI BUCHHOLZ, URSULA · 2009 to 2025
$21.8M
RSV PROTEINS--ROLES IN HOST IMMUNITY AND IMMUNOPROPHYLAXISZ01AI000372 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI COLLINS, PETER LEON · 1985 to 2008
$11.0M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Development of a live pediatric vaccine against human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is complicated by the need to immunize young infants and the difficulty in balancing attenuation and immunogenicity. The ability to introduce desired mutations into infectious virus by reverse genetics provides a method for identifying and designing highly defined attenuating mutations. These can be introduced in combinations as desired to achieve gradations of attenuation. Attenuation is based on several strategies: multiple independent temperature-sensitive point mutations in the polymerase, a temperature-sensitive point mutation in a transcription signal, a set of non-temperature-sensitive mutations involving several genes, deletion of a viral RNA synthesis regulatory protein, and deletion of viral IFN alpha/beta antagonists. The genetic stability of the live vaccine can be increased by judicious choice of mutations. The virus also can be engineered to increase the level of expression of the protective antigens. Protective antigens from antigenically distinct RSV strains can be added or swapped to increase the breadth of coverage. Alternatively, the major RSV protective antigens can be expressed from transcription units added to an attenuated parainfluenza vaccine virus, making a bivalent vaccine. This would obviate the difficulties inherent in the fragility and inefficient in vitro growth of RSV, simplifying vaccine design and use.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMutationRespiratory Syncytial Virus, HumanRespiratory Syncytial Virus InfectionsRespiratory Syncytial Virus VaccinesVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticRespiratory Syncytial Virus VaccinesVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, Synthetic

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PMID16113487
PMCPMC2713317
OpenAlexW1983046119

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