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ArticleACS chemical biology2015

Multivalent Antigens for Promoting B and T Cell Activation.

Nitasha R Bennett, Daniel B Zwick, Adam H Courtney, Laura L Kiessling

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
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

Who cites it

52 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nitasha R Bennett†Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Daniel B Zwick†Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Adam H Courtney†Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Laura L Kiessling†Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008349 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI FOX, BRIAN G · 1989 to 2019
$22.5M
Synthetic Ligands for Modulating Immune Cell ResponsesR01AI055258 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI KIESSLING, LAURA L · 2003 to 2024
$7.8M
PROBES OF CARBOHYDRATE FUNCTIONR01GM049975 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI KIESSLING, LAURA L · 1999 to 2016
$5.2M
NIAID NIH HHS AI055258NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI055258NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049975NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008349NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM08349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efficacious vaccines require antigens that elicit productive immune system activation. Antigens that afford robust antibody production activate both B and T cells. Elucidating the antigen properties that enhance B-T cell communication is difficult with traditional antigens. We therefore used ring-opening metathesis polymerization to access chemically defined, multivalent antigens containing both B and T cell epitopes to explore how antigen structure impacts B cell and T cell activation and communication. The bifunctional antigens were designed so that the backbone substitution level of each antigenic epitope could be quantified using (19)F NMR. The T cell peptide epitope was appended so that it could be liberated in B cells via the action of the endosomal protease cathepsin D, and this design feature was critical for T cell activation. Antigens with high BCR epitope valency induce greater BCR-mediated internalization and T cell activation than did low valency antigens, and these high-valency polymeric antigens were superior to protein antigens. We anticipate that these findings can guide the design of more effective vaccines.

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Lymphocyte ActivationAmino Acid SequenceAntigensB-LymphocytesEpitopesHumansInterleukin-2Models, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataT-LymphocytesAntigensEpitopesInterleukin-2

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PMID25970017
PMCPMC4669068
OpenAlexW216353729

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