Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30146797›Full record

ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2018

Self-Assembly of Immune Signals Improves Codelivery to Antigen Presenting Cells and Accelerates Signal Internalization, Processing Kinetics, and Immune Activation.

Michelle L Bookstaver, Krystina L Hess, Christopher M Jewell

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Controlling intracellular processing to enhance spherical nucleic acid immune stimulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Self-Assembly of Immune Signals to Program Innate Immunity through Rational Adjuvant Design.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022
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  16. Biomaterials as Tools to Decode Immunity.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2020
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  17. Phage display as a tool for vaccine and immunotherapy development.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michelle L BookstaverFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 8278 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Krystina L HessFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 8278 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Christopher M JewellFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 8278 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6668-6928

Funding

Training in Host-pathogens interactionsT32AI089621 · NIAID · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI LEE, VINCENT T, MCIVER, KEVIN S. · 2010 to 2025
$2.1M
Tunable Assembly of Regulatory Immune Signals to Promote Myelin-specific ToleranceI01BX003690 · VA · BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI Christopher M Jewell · 2017 to 2026
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BLRD VA I01 BX003690NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI089621
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccines and immunotherapies that elicit specific types of immune responses offer transformative potential to tackle disease. The mechanisms governing the processing of immune signals-events that determine the type of response generated-are incredibly complex. Understanding these processes would inform more rational vaccine design by linking carrier properties, processing mechanisms, and relevant timescales to specific impacts on immune response. This goal is pursued using nanostructured materials-termed immune polyelectrolyte multilayers-built entirely from antigens and stimulatory toll-like receptors agonists (TLRas). This simplicity allows isolation and quantification of the rates and mechanisms of intracellular signal processing, and the link to activation of distinct immune pathways. Each vaccine component is internalized in a colocalized manner through energy-dependent caveolae-mediated endocytosis. This process results in trafficking through endosome/lysosome pathways and stimulation of TLRs expressed on endosomes/lysosomes. The maximum rates for these events occur within 4 h, but are detectable in minutes, ultimately driving downstream proimmune functions. Interestingly, these uptake, processing, and activation kinetics are significantly faster for TLRas in particulate form compared with free TLRa. Our findings provide insight into specific mechanisms by which particulate vaccines enhance initiation of immune response, and highlight quantitative strategies to assess other carrier technologies.

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AnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsCaveolaeCells, CulturedDendritic CellsEndocytosisEndosomesImmunotherapyKineticsLysosomesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNanotechnologyTemperatureToll-Like ReceptorsToll-Like Receptorsimmunotherapynanotechnologyrational designself-assemblyvaccine

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PMID30146797
PMCPMC6252008

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