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ReviewVaccines2014

Peptide Vaccine: Progress and Challenges.

Weidang Li, Medha D Joshi, Smita Singhania, Kyle H Ramsey, Ashlesh K Murthy

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In one paragraph

Review in Vaccines, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 325 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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325citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

325 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Virulence · 2026
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  7. Self-Assembly of Peptides and Biomolecular Systems Into Functional Nanomaterials.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2026
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  10. Computational design of HLA class I superbinders for broad T cell immunogenicity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  20. Frontiers in microbiology · 2026
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265 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

5 authors.

Weidang LiDepartment of Pathology, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. wli@midwestern.edu.
Medha D JoshiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. mjoshi@midwestern.edu.
Smita SinghaniaSymbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune, MH 412115, India. smita.singhania@gmail.com.
Kyle H RamseyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. kramse@midwestern.edu.
Ashlesh K MurthyDepartment of Pathology, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. amurth@midwestern.edu.

Funding

MECHANISM(S) OF CD8 T CELL-MEDIATED CHLAMYDIA-INDUCED REPRODUCTIVE PATHOLOGYR15AI101920 · NIAID · MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY (GLENDALE AZ) · PI LI, WEIDANG · 2013 to 2019
$1.4M
Role of CD8+ T cells in Reproductive Sequelae Induced by Chlamydia InfectionR03AI088342 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI MURTHY, ASHLESH KRISHNA · 2010 to 2011
$144k
NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI088342NIAID NIH HHS R15 AI101920
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional vaccine strategies have been highly efficacious for several decades in reducing mortality and morbidity due to infectious diseases. The bane of conventional vaccines, such as those that include whole organisms or large proteins, appear to be the inclusion of unnecessary antigenic load that, not only contributes little to the protective immune response, but complicates the situation by inducing allergenic and/or reactogenic responses. Peptide vaccines are an attractive alternative strategy that relies on usage of short peptide fragments to engineer the induction of highly targeted immune responses, consequently avoiding allergenic and/or reactogenic sequences. Conversely, peptide vaccines used in isolation are often weakly immunogenic and require particulate carriers for delivery and adjuvanting. In this article, we discuss the specific advantages and considerations in targeted induction of immune responses by peptide vaccines and progresses in the development of such vaccines against various diseases. Additionally, we also discuss the development of particulate carrier strategies and the inherent challenges with regard to safety when combining such technologies with peptide vaccines.

Indexed as

adjuvantsepitopepeptide vaccine

Identifiers

PMID26344743
PMCPMC4494216

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