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ArticleNature communications2017

Plant-made polio type 3 stabilized VLPs-a candidate synthetic polio vaccine.

Johanna Marsian, Helen Fox, Mohammad W Bahar, Abhay Kotecha, Elizabeth E Fry, David I Stuart, Andrew J Macadam, David J Rowlands, George P Lomonossoff

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Johanna MarsianJohn Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
Helen FoxThe National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK.
Mohammad W BaharDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.
Abhay KotechaDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4480-5439
Elizabeth E FryDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.
David I StuartDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-4210
Andrew J MacadamThe National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK.
David J RowlandsSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4742-9272
George P LomonossoffJohn Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK. George.Lomonossoff@jic.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/00000166Medical Research Council MR/N00065X/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poliovirus (PV) is the causative agent of poliomyelitis, a crippling human disease known since antiquity. PV occurs in two distinct antigenic forms, D and C, of which only the D form elicits a robust neutralizing response. Developing a synthetically produced stabilized virus-like particle (sVLP)-based vaccine with D antigenicity, without the drawbacks of current vaccines, will be a major step towards the final eradication of poliovirus. Such a sVLP would retain the native antigenic conformation and the repetitive structure of the original virus particle, but lack infectious genomic material. In this study, we report the production of synthetically stabilized PV VLPs in plants. Mice carrying the gene for the human PV receptor are protected from wild-type PV when immunized with the plant-made PV sVLPs. Structural analysis of the stabilized mutant at 3.6 Å resolution by cryo-electron microscopy and single-particle reconstruction reveals a structure almost indistinguishable from wild-type PV3.Despite the success of current vaccination against poliomyelitis, safe, cheap and effective vaccines remain sought for continuing eradication effort. Here the authors use plants to express stabilized virus-like particles of type 3 poliovirus that can induce a protective immune response in mice transgenic for the human poliovirus receptor.

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AnimalsAntibodies, ViralFemaleGene ExpressionHumansMaleMiceNicotianaPoliomyelitisPoliovirusPoliovirus VaccinesAntibodies, ViralPoliovirus Vaccines

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PMID28811473
PMCPMC5557999

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