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ReviewJournal of biomedical science2016

Phage display as a promising approach for vaccine development.

Leili Aghebati-Maleki, Babak Bakhshinejad, Behzad Baradaran, Morteza Motallebnezhad, Ali Aghebati-Maleki, Hamid Nickho, Mehdi Yousefi, Jafar Majidi

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Review in Journal of biomedical science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
101citing papers in PubMed
17.9field-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

101 citing papers in PubMed, 231 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Safety of COVID-19 vaccines.Journal of medical virology · 2021
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  4. Phage Display as a Promising Platform for Peptide Drug Discovery.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  19. Bacteriophage-based strategies for biocontrol and treatment of infectious diseases.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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41 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leili Aghebati-MalekiImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Babak BakhshinejadDepartment of Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Behzad BaradaranImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Morteza MotallebnezhadImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Ali Aghebati-MalekiImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Hamid NickhoImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Mehdi YousefiDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. yousefime@tbzmed.ac.ir.
Jafar MajidiImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran. jmajidiz@yahoo.com.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRTarbiat Modares University · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophages are specific antagonists to bacterial hosts. These viral entities have attracted growing interest as optimal vaccine delivery vehicles. Phages are well-matched for vaccine design due to being highly stable under harsh environmental conditions, simple and inexpensive large scale production, and potent adjuvant capacities. Phage vaccines have efficient immunostimulatory effects and present a high safety profile because these viruses have made a constant relationship with the mammalian body during a long-standing evolutionary period. The birth of phage display technology has been a turning point in the development of phage-based vaccines. Phage display vaccines are made by expressing multiple copies of an antigen on the surface of immunogenic phage particles, thereby eliciting a powerful and effective immune response. Also, the ability to produce combinatorial peptide libraries with a highly diverse pool of randomized ligands has transformed phage display into a straightforward, versatile and high throughput screening methodology for the identification of potential vaccine candidates against different diseases in particular microbial infections. These libraries can be conveniently screened through an affinity selection-based strategy called biopanning against a wide variety of targets for the selection of mimotopes with high antigenicity and immunogenicity. Also, they can be panned against the antiserum of convalescent individuals to recognize novel peptidomimetics of pathogen-related epitopes. Phage display has represented enormous promise for finding new strategies of vaccine discovery and production and current breakthroughs promise a brilliant future for the development of different phage-based vaccine platforms.

Indexed as

BacteriophageBiopanningMimotopePeptide libraryPhage displayVaccine development

Identifiers

PMID27680328
PMCPMC5041315
OpenAlexW2524428139

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