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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2015

Protein Crystallography in Vaccine Research and Development.

Enrico Malito, Andrea Carfi, Matthew J Bottomley

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Enrico MalitoProtein Biochemistry Department, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics s.r.l. (a GSK Company), Via Fiorentina 1, 53100 Siena, Italy. enrico.x.malito@gsk.com.
Andrea CarfiProtein Biochemistry Department, GSK Vaccines, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. andrea.x.carfi@gsk.com.
Matthew J BottomleyProtein Biochemistry Department, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics s.r.l. (a GSK Company), Via Fiorentina 1, 53100 Siena, Italy. matthew.j.bottomley@gsk.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of protein X-ray crystallography for structure-based design of small-molecule drugs is well-documented and includes several notable success stories. However, it is less well-known that structural biology has emerged as a major tool for the design of novel vaccine antigens. Here, we review the important contributions that protein crystallography has made so far to vaccine research and development. We discuss several examples of the crystallographic characterization of vaccine antigen structures, alone or in complexes with ligands or receptors. We cover the critical role of high-resolution epitope mapping by reviewing structures of complexes between antigens and their cognate neutralizing, or protective, antibody fragments. Most importantly, we provide recent examples where structural insights obtained via protein crystallography have been used to design novel optimized vaccine antigens. This review aims to illustrate the value of protein crystallography in the emerging discipline of structural vaccinology and its impact on the rational design of vaccines.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAntigens, BacterialAntigens, ViralBinding Sites, AntibodyCrystallographyEpitopesMolecular Sequence DataVaccines, SyntheticAntigens, BacterialAntigens, ViralEpitopesVaccines, Syntheticcrystallizationhuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)meningitisparatopeprotein engineeringrespiratory syncytial virus (RSV)Staphylococcus aureus

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PMID26068237
PMCPMC4490488

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