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ArticleVaccines2019

Immunogenicity and Protection Efficacy of a Naked Self-Replicating mRNA-Based Zika Virus Vaccine.

Zifu Zhong, João Paulo Portela Catani, Séan Mc Cafferty, Liesbeth Couck, Wim Van Den Broeck, Nina Gorlé, Roosmarijn E Vandenbroucke, Bert Devriendt, Sebastian Ulbert, Lieselotte Cnops and 3 more

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Article in Vaccines, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Research progress of mosquito-borne virus mRNA vaccines.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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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

13 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Zifu ZhongLaboratory of Gene Therapy, Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Heidestraat 19, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium.
João Paulo Portela CataniLaboratory of Gene Therapy, Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Heidestraat 19, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium.
Séan Mc CaffertyLaboratory of Gene Therapy, Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Heidestraat 19, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium.
Liesbeth CouckDepartment of Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium.
Wim Van Den BroeckDepartment of Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6683-5658
Nina GorléBarriers in Inflammation Lab, Department of Biomedical molecular biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
Roosmarijn E VandenbrouckeBarriers in Inflammation Lab, Department of Biomedical molecular biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8327-620X
Bert DevriendtLaboratory of Immunology, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3222-8769
Sebastian UlbertDepartment of Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Perlickstr. 1, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Lieselotte CnopsUnit of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Johan MichelsVirology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Kevin K AriënVirology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Niek N SandersLaboratory of Gene Therapy, Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Heidestraat 19, 9820 Merelbeke, Belgium. niek.Sanders@ugent.be.ORCID 0000-0003-4585-0343
Ghent University · BEInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BEFraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology · DEUniversity of Antwerp · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To combat emerging infectious diseases like Zika virus (ZIKV), synthetic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) encoding viral antigens are very attractive as they allow a rapid, generic, and flexible production of vaccines. In this work, we engineered a self-replicating mRNA (sr-mRNA) vaccine encoding the pre-membrane and envelope (prM-E) glycoproteins of ZIKV. Intradermal electroporation of as few as 1 µg of this mRNA-based ZIKV vaccine induced potent humoral and cellular immune responses in BALB/c and especially IFNAR1

Indexed as

IFNAR1 knockout miceself-replicating mRNAtype I interferon responseZika virus vaccine

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PMID31450775
PMCPMC6789535
OpenAlexW2969386184

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