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ReviewViruses2017

Targeting Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRR) for Vaccine Adjuvantation: From Synthetic PRR Agonists to the Potential of Defective Interfering Particles of Viruses.

Andri Vasou, Nazife Sultanoglu, Stephen Goodbourn, Richard E Randall, Leondios G Kostrikis

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In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Vaccine Adjuvants and Delivery Systems: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  9. Nanovaccines empowering CD8Theranostics · 2025
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  13. Progress towards Adjuvant Development: Focus on Antiviral Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  14. Serine-/Cysteine-Based spJournal of medicinal chemistry · 2023
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  16. A Virus Is a Community: Diversity within Negative-Sense RNA Virus Populations.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2022
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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 at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Andri VasouDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1 University Avenue, Aglatzia, Nicosia 2109, Cyprus. avasou01@udy.ac.cy
Nazife SultanogluDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1 University Avenue, Aglatzia, Nicosia 2109, Cyprus. nsulta01@ucy.ac.cy.
Stephen GoodbournInstitute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK. s.goodbourn@sgul.ac.uk.
Richard E RandallSchool of Biology, University of St Andrews, The North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9ST, UK. rer@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Leondios G KostrikisDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1 University Avenue, Aglatzia, Nicosia 2109, Cyprus. lkostrik@ucy.ac.cy.
University of Cyprus · CYSt George's, University of London · GBUniversity of St Andrews · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern vaccinology has increasingly focused on non-living vaccines, which are more stable than live-attenuated vaccines but often show limited immunogenicity. Immunostimulatory substances, known as adjuvants, are traditionally used to increase the magnitude of protective adaptive immunity in response to a pathogen-associated antigen. Recently developed adjuvants often include substances that stimulate pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), essential components of innate immunity required for the activation of antigen-presenting cells (APCs), which serve as a bridge between innate and adaptive immunity. Nearly all PRRs are potential targets for adjuvants. Given the recent success of toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists in vaccine development, molecules with similar, but additional, immunostimulatory activity, such as defective interfering particles (DIPs) of viruses, represent attractive candidates for vaccine adjuvants. This review outlines some of the recent advances in vaccine development related to the use of TLR agonists, summarizes the current knowledge regarding DIP immunogenicity, and discusses the potential applications of DIPs in vaccine adjuvantation.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsDefective VirusesGenome, ViralHumansImmunity, InnateImmunogenicity, VaccineMiceReceptors, Pattern RecognitionToll-Like ReceptorsVaccinesAdjuvants, ImmunologicReceptors, Pattern RecognitionToll-Like ReceptorsVaccinesdefective interfering particlesdefective viral genomesinnate immunitypattern recognition receptor agonistsvaccine adjuvants

Identifiers

PMID28703784
PMCPMC5537678
OpenAlexW2734898349

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Registered trials

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