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ReviewVaccines2016

Entirely Carbohydrate-Based Vaccines: An Emerging Field for Specific and Selective Immune Responses.

Sharmeen Nishat, Peter R Andreana

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Review in Vaccines, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sharmeen NishatDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Green Chemistry and Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA. Sharmeen.Nishat@utoledo.edu.
Peter R AndreanaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Green Chemistry and Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA. peter.andreana@utoledo.edu.
University of Toledo · US

Funding

Entirely Carbohydrate Vaccine Constructs and Their Application in Probing GlycoimR01CA156661 · NCI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ANDREANA, PETER R · 2011 to 2015
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA156661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carbohydrates are regarded as promising targets for vaccine development against infectious disease because cell surface glycans on many infectious agents are attributed to playing an important role in pathogenesis. In addition, oncogenic transformation of normal cells, in many cases, is associated with aberrant glycosylation of the cell surface glycan generating tumor associated carbohydrate antigens (TACAs). Technological advances in glycobiology have added a new dimension to immunotherapy when considering carbohydrates as key targets in developing safe and effective vaccines to combat cancer, bacterial infections, viral infections, etc. Many consider effective vaccines induce T-cell dependent immunity with satisfactory levels of immunological memory that preclude recurrence. Unfortunately, carbohydrates alone are poorly immunogenic as they do not bind strongly to the MHCII complex and thus fail to elicit T-cell immunity. To increase immunogenicity, carbohydrates have been conjugated to carrier proteins, which sometimes can impede carbohydrate specific immunity as peptide-based immune responses can negate antibodies directed at the targeted carbohydrate antigens. To overcome many challenges in using carbohydrate-based vaccine design and development approaches targeting cancer and other diseases, zwitterionic polysaccharides (ZPSs), isolated from the capsule of commensal anaerobic bacteria, will be discussed as promising carriers of carbohydrate antigens to achieve desired immunological responses.

Indexed as

carbohydrate-based vaccinesPS A1T-cell dependent immune responsezwitterionic polysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID27213458
PMCPMC4931636
OpenAlexW2404569124

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