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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2009

HLA-DR: molecular insights and vaccine design.

Lawrence J Stern, J Mauricio Calvo-Calle

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Classical HLA Allele and Haplotype Frequency Estimates in US Populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  15. Moving beyond Titers.Vaccines · 2022
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  17. Genetic susceptibility loci forFrontiers in immunology · 2022
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  19. T Cell Peptides Derived from Invasive Stages ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lawrence J SternDepartment of Pathology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. lawrence.stern@umassmed.edu
J Mauricio Calvo-Calle
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

Technologies for Human Cellular ImmunologyU19AI057319 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI CO, MARYDAWN T · 2003 to 2013
$34.4M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI057319PHS HHS U19-057319
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccines are one of the most cost effective methods to control infectious diseases and at the same time one of the most complex products of the pharmaceutical industry. In contrast to other drugs, vaccines are used mainly in healthy individuals, often in children. For this reason, very high standards are set for their production. Subunit vaccines, especially peptide vaccines, can provide a safe and cost-effective alternative to vaccines produced from attenuated or inactivated pathogen preparations. Biochemical and structural studies of class II MHC-peptide complexes are beginning to provide a conceptual foundation for the rational design of subunit and peptide vaccines. In this review, we show how analysis of peptide-class II MHC complexes together with developing understanding of antigen processing pathways has opened the door to understanding the major rules that govern selection of T cell epitopes. We review progress towards computational prediction of such epitopes, and efforts to evaluate algorithms that incorporate various structural and/or biochemical aspects of the MHC-peptide interaction. Finally, using malaria as a model, we describe the development of a minimal subunit vaccine for the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesDrug DesignEpitopesGenes, MHC Class IIHLA-DR AntigensHumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingVaccinesVaccines, SubunitEpitopesHLA-DR AntigensVaccinesVaccines, Subunit

Identifiers

PMID19860674
PMCPMC3615543
OpenAlexW2000486917

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