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ArticleJournal of virological methods2012

A plate-based high-throughput assay for virus stability and vaccine formulation.

Thomas S Walter, Jingshan Ren, Tobias J Tuthill, David J Rowlands, David I Stuart, Elizabeth E Fry

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Article in Journal of virological methods, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Thomas S WalterDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.
Jingshan Ren
Tobias J Tuthill
David J Rowlands
David I Stuart
Elizabeth E Fry

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00001411Medical Research Council G0200504Medical Research Council G0600025Medical Research Council G1000099Medical Research Council G1100525Wellcome Trust 090532
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Standard methods for assessing the thermal stability of viruses can be time consuming and rather qualitative yet such data is a necessary requisite for vaccine formulation. In this study a novel plate-based thermal scanning assay for virus particle stability has been developed (PaSTRy: Particle Stability Thermal Release Assay). Two environment-sensitive fluorescent dyes, with non-overlapping emission spectra and different affinities, are used to accrue simultaneously independent data for the overall stability of the virus capsid, as judged by the exposure of the genome, and for capsid protein stability according to the exposure of hydrophobic side chains which are normally buried. This offers a fast and efficient high-throughput method to optimise vaccine formulation and to investigate the processes of virus uncoating.

Indexed as

Capsid ProteinsDrug StabilityFluorescent DyesGenome, ViralHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysStaining and LabelingTechnology, PharmaceuticalTemperatureViral VaccinesVirusesCapsid ProteinsFluorescent DyesViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID22744000
PMCPMC3470038

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