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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2015

Synthetic self-adjuvanting glycopeptide cancer vaccines.

David M McDonald, Scott N Byrne, Richard J Payne

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David M McDonaldSchool of Chemistry, The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Discipline of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Scott N ByrneDiscipline of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Richard J PayneSchool of Chemistry, The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia.
University of Sydney · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to changes in glycosyltransferase expression during oncogenesis, the glycoproteins of cancer cells often carry highly truncated carbohydrate chains compared to those on healthy cells. These glycans are known as tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACAs), and are prime targets for use in vaccines for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Herein, we review the state-of-the-art in targeting the immune system toward tumor-associated glycopeptide antigens via synthetic self-adjuvanting vaccines, in which the antigenic and adjuvanting moieties of the vaccines are present in the same molecule. The majority of the self-adjuvanting glycopeptide cancer vaccines reported to date employ antigens from mucin 1, a protein which is highly over-expressed and aberrantly glycosylated in many forms of cancer. The adjuvants used in these vaccines predominantly include lipopeptide- or lipoamino acid-based TLR2 agonists, although studies investigating stimulation of TLR9 and TLR4 are also discussed. Many of these adjuvants are highly lipophilic, and, upon conjugation to antigenic peptides, provide amphiphilic vaccine molecules. The amphiphilic nature of these vaccine constructs can lead to the formation of higher-order structures by vaccines in solution, which are likely to be important for their efficacy in vivo.

Indexed as

adjuvantantigenglycopeptideMUC1tumor-associated carbohydrate antigenvaccine

Identifiers

PMID26557640
PMCPMC4615963
OpenAlexW2182182608

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