Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26912077›Full record

ReviewBiotechnology journal2015

Outer membrane vesicles as platform vaccine technology.

Leo van der Pol, Michiel Stork, Peter van der Ley

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Review in Biotechnology journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 206 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
206citing papers in PubMed
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

206 citing papers in PubMed, 365 citations in OpenAlex.

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146 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Leo van der PolResearch, Intravacc, Bilthoven, The Netherlands. leo.van.der.pol@intravacc.nl.
Michiel StorkProduct Development, Intravacc, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Peter van der LeyResearch, Intravacc, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Intravacc (Netherlands) · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are released spontaneously during growth by many Gram-negative bacteria. They present a range of surface antigens in a native conformation and have natural properties like immunogenicity, self-adjuvation and uptake by immune cells which make them attractive for application as vaccines against pathogenic bacteria. In particular with Neisseria meningitidis, they have been investigated extensively and an OMV-containing meningococcal vaccine has recently been approved by regulatory agencies. Genetic engineering of the OMV-producing bacteria can be used to improve and expand their usefulness as vaccines. Recent work on meningitis B vaccines shows that OMVs can be modified, such as for lipopolysaccharide reactogenicity, to yield an OMV product that is safe and effective. The overexpression of crucial antigens or simultaneous expression of multiple antigenic variants as well as the expression of heterologous antigens enable expansion of their range of applications. In addition, modifications may increase the yield of OMV production and can be combined with specific production processes to obtain high amounts of well-defined, stable and uniform OMV particle vaccine products. Further improvement can facilitate the development of OMVs as platform vaccine product for multiple applications.

Indexed as

Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBiotechnologyMembranes, ArtificialVaccinesAnimalsHumansLipopolysaccharidesMeningococcal VaccinesMiceNanoparticlesNeisseria meningitidisBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsLipopolysaccharidesMembranes, ArtificialMeningococcal VaccinesVaccinesLipopolysaccharideNeisseriaOuter membrane vesiclePertussisVaccine

Identifiers

PMID26912077
PMCPMC4768646
OpenAlexW2125041408

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