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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology2021

Advancements in protein nanoparticle vaccine platforms to combat infectious disease.

Nina Butkovich, Enya Li, Aaron Ramirez, Amanda M Burkhardt, Szu-Wen Wang

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Optimizing genetic engineering approaches for protein loading into bacterial extracellular vesicles for vaginal drug delivery.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2026
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  3. A Modular Vaccine Platform Against SARS-CoV-2 Based on Self-Assembled Protein Nanoparticles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nina ButkovichDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
Enya LiDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
Aaron RamirezDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
Amanda M BurkhardtDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7326-474X
Szu-Wen WangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7398-0220
University of California, Irvine · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

Tumor-Associated Antigen Delivery using Protein Nanoparticles for Combined ImmunotherapyR01EB027797 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI WANG, SZU-WEN · 2019 to 2022
$1.3M
An Imputation-Consistency Algorithm for Biomedical Complex Data AnalysisR01GM126089 · NIGMS · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI LIANG, FAMING · 2018 to 2021
$1.2M
Equivalent Partial Correlation Methods for Integrative Genetic Network Analysis R01GM117597 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI LIANG, FAMING · 2015 to 2017
$1.0M
Defense Threat Reduction Agency HDTRA11810035Defense Threat Reduction Agency HDTRA11810036National Science FoundationNIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027797NIBIB NIH HHS R01EB027797NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117597NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126089U.S. Department of Education P200A180043
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious diseases are a major threat to global human health, yet prophylactic treatment options can be limited, as safe and efficacious vaccines exist only for a fraction of all diseases. Notably, devastating diseases such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) currently do not have vaccine therapies. Conventional vaccine platforms, such as live attenuated vaccines and whole inactivated vaccines, can be difficult to manufacture, may cause severe side effects, and can potentially induce severe infection. Subunit vaccines carry far fewer safety concerns due to their inability to cause vaccine-based infections. The applicability of protein nanoparticles (NPs) as vaccine scaffolds is promising to prevent infectious diseases, and they have been explored for a number of viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases. Many types of protein NPs exist, including self-assembling NPs, bacteriophage-derived NPs, plant virus-derived NPs, and human virus-based vectors, and these particular categories will be covered in this review. These vaccines can elicit strong humoral and cellular immune responses against specific pathogens, as well as provide protection against infection in a number of animal models. Furthermore, published clinical trials demonstrate the promise of applying these NP vaccine platforms, which include bacteriophage-derived NPs, in addition to multiple viral vectors that are currently used in the clinic. The continued investigations of protein NP vaccine platforms are critical to generate safer alternatives to current vaccines, advance vaccines for diseases that currently lack effective prophylactic therapies, and prepare for the rapid development of new vaccines against emerging infectious diseases. This article is categorized under: Therapeutic Approaches and Drug Discovery > Nanomedicine for Infectious Disease Biology-Inspired Nanomaterials > Protein and Virus-Based Structures.

Indexed as

AnimalsBacteriophagesCommunicable Diseases, EmergingCOVID-19Escherichia coliHeat-Shock ProteinsHumansImmunity, CellularImmunity, HumoralNanomedicineNanoparticlesProteinsRecombinant ProteinsSARS-CoV-2VaccinesViral ProteinsHeat-Shock ProteinsProteinsRecombinant ProteinsVaccinesViral Proteinsantigen deliveryimmune responseinfectious disease vaccinesprotein nanoparticlesvirus-like particles

Identifiers

PMID33164326
PMCPMC8052270
OpenAlexW3105210436

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