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ArticleNature communications2019

A platform for glycoengineering a polyvalent pneumococcal bioconjugate vaccine using E. coli as a host.

Christian M Harding, Mohamed A Nasr, Nichollas E Scott, Guillaume Goyette-Desjardins, Harald Nothaft, Anne E Mayer, Sthefany M Chavez, Jeremy P Huynh, Rachel L Kinsella, Christine M Szymanski and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Christian M HardingVaxNewMo LLC, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA. christian.harding@vaxnewmo.com.
Mohamed A NasrDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada.
Nichollas E ScottDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.
Guillaume Goyette-DesjardinsSwine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, 3200 Sicotte Street, St-Hyacinthe, QC, J2S 2M2, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7158-9594
Harald NothaftDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada.
Anne E MayerDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Sthefany M ChavezDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Jeremy P HuynhDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Rachel L KinsellaDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Christine M SzymanskiDepartment of Microbiology and Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Christina L StallingsDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Mariela SeguraSwine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, 3200 Sicotte Street, St-Hyacinthe, QC, J2S 2M2, Canada.
Mario F FeldmanVaxNewMo LLC, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA. mariofeldman@wustl.edu.
Washington University in St. Louis · USUniversité de Montréal · CAUniversity of Alberta · CAAdvanced Cell Technology (United States) · USSt. Louis VA Medical Center · USThe University of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

Towards a New Generation of Glycoengineered Pneumococcal Bioconjugate VaccinesR41AI131742 · NIAID · VAXNEWMO, LLC · PI FELDMAN, MARIO · 2017 to 2017
$210k
NIAID NIH HHS R41 AI131742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical synthesis of conjugate vaccines, consisting of a polysaccharide linked to a protein, can be technically challenging, and in vivo bacterial conjugations (bioconjugations) have emerged as manufacturing alternatives. Bioconjugation relies upon an oligosaccharyltransferase to attach polysaccharides to proteins, but currently employed enzymes are not suitable for the generation of conjugate vaccines when the polysaccharides contain glucose at the reducing end, which is the case for ~75% of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsules. Here, we use an O-linking oligosaccharyltransferase to generate a polyvalent pneumococcal bioconjugate vaccine with polysaccharides containing glucose at their reducing end. In addition, we show that different vaccine carrier proteins can be glycosylated using this system. Pneumococcal bioconjugates are immunogenic, protective and rapidly produced within E. coli using recombinant techniques. These proof-of-principle experiments establish a platform to overcome limitations of other conjugating enzymes enabling the development of bioconjugate vaccines for many important human and animal pathogens.

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AnimalsBacterial CapsulesEscherichia coliGenetic EngineeringGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHumansPneumococcal VaccinesStreptococcus pneumoniaeVaccines, ConjugateVaccines, SyntheticGlycoproteinsPneumococcal VaccinesVaccines, ConjugateVaccines, Synthetic

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PMID30792408
PMCPMC6385209
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