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ArticlePloS one2015

IMPIPS: the immune protection-inducing protein structure concept in the search for steric-electron and topochemical principles for complete fully-protective chemically synthesised vaccine development.

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Adriana Bermúdez, Martha Patricia Alba, Magnolia Vanegas, Armando Moreno-Vranich, Luis Antonio Poloche, Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Manuel Elkin PatarroyoFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Adriana BermúdezFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia; Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Martha Patricia AlbaFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia; Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Magnolia VanegasFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia; Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Armando Moreno-VranichFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia.
Luis Antonio PolocheFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia.
Manuel Alfonso PatarroyoFundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia; Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia · COUniversidad del Rosario · CO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determining immune protection-inducing protein structures (IMPIPS) involves defining the stereo-electron and topochemical characteristics which are essential in MHC-p-TCR complex formation. Modified high activity binding peptides (mHABP) were thus synthesised to produce a large panel of IMPIPS measuring 26.5 ±3.5Å between the farthest atoms fitting into Pockets 1 to 9 of HLA-DRβ1* structures. They displayed a polyproline II-like (PPIIL) structure with their backbone O and N atoms orientated to establish H-bonds with specific residues from HLA-DRβ1*-peptide binding regions (PBR). Residues having specific charge and gauche+ orientation regarding p3χ1, p5χ2, and p7χ1 angles determined appropriate rotamer orientation for perfectly fitting into the TCR to induce an appropriate immune response. Immunological assays in Aotus monkeys involving IMPIPS mixtures led to promising results; taken together with the aforementioned physicochemical principles, non-interfering, long-lasting, protection-inducing, multi-epitope, multistage, minimal subunit-based chemically-synthesised peptides can be designed against diseases scourging humankind.

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AnimalsElectronsHaplorhiniMalaria VaccinesProtein ConformationVaccines, SyntheticMalaria VaccinesVaccines, Synthetic

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PMID25879751
PMCPMC4400017
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