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ReviewVaccines2017

Neutralization of Human Cytomegalovirus Entry into Fibroblasts and Epithelial Cells.

Felix Wussow, Flavia Chiuppesi, Heidi Contreras, Don J Diamond

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Review in Vaccines, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Nonhuman primate models of pediatric viral diseases.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
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  16. Cytomegalovirus: Shape-Shifting the Immune System.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Felix WussowDepartment of Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. fwussow@coh.org.
Flavia ChiuppesiDepartment of Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. fchiuppesi@coh.org.
Heidi ContrerasDepartment of Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. hcontreras@coh.org.
Don J DiamondDepartment of Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. ddiamond@coh.org.
Beckman Research InstituteCity of Hope · US

Funding

Peptide Vaccine To Prevent CMV Disease After HSCTR01CA077544 · NCI · CITY OF HOPE/BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI DIAMOND, DON J · 1998 to 2017
$5.6M
Evaluation of Protective CMV Vaccines in Rhesus MacaquesR01AI063356 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI BARRY, PETER A, DIAMOND, DON J · 2005 to 2014
$4.6M
CMVPepVax to Protect HCT Recipients from Cytomegalovirus InfectionR01CA181045 · NCI · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI DIAMOND, DON J · 2014 to 2018
$3.6M
HCMV Vaccine produced from BAC-MVA that Blocks Epithelial and Fibroblast EntryR01AI103960 · NIAID · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI BARRY, PETER A, DIAMOND, DON J · 2013 to 2016
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA077544NCI NIH HHS R01 CA181045NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI063356NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI103960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a leading cause of permanent birth defects, highlighting the need to develop an HCMV vaccine candidate. However, HCMV vaccine development is complicated by the varying capacity of neutralizing antibodies (NAb) to interfere in vitro with the HCMV entry routes mediating infection of fibroblast (FB) and epithelial cells (EC). While HCMV infection of FB and EC requires glycoprotein complexes composed of gB and gH/gL/gO, EC infection depends additionally on the envelope pentamer complex (PC) composed of gH, gL, UL128, UL130 and UL131A. Unlike NAb to gB or gH epitopes that can interfere with both FB and EC infection, NAb targeting predominantly conformational epitopes of the UL128/130/131A subunits are unable to prevent FB entry, though they are highly potent in blocking EC infection. Despite the selective requirement of the PC for EC entry, the PC is exceptionally immunogenic as vaccine antigen to stimulate both EC- and FB-specific NAb responses due to its capacity to elicit NAb that target epitopes of the UL128/130/131A subunits and gH. These findings suggest that the PC could be sufficient in a subunit vaccine formulation to induce robust FB- and EC-specific NAb responses. In this short review, we discuss NAb responses induced through natural infection and vaccination that interfere in vitro with HCMV infection of FB and EC.

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cytomegalovirusepithelial cellsfibroblastsglycoprotein complexneutralizing antibodypentamervaccine

Identifiers

PMID29088098
PMCPMC5748606
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