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ArticleScientific reports2021

Virus-like particles with FLAG-tagged envelope protein as a tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate.

Toshifumi Imagawa, Masahiko Ito, Mami Matsuda, Kenji Nakashima, Yuhei Tokunaga, Isao Ohta, Tian-Cheng Li, Ryosuke Suzuki, Tetsuro Suzuki

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Toshifumi ImagawaDepartment of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.
Masahiko ItoDepartment of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.
Mami MatsudaDepartment of Virology II, National Institute for Infectious Disease, Musashi-murayama, Tokyo, 208-0011, Japan.
Kenji NakashimaDepartment of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.
Yuhei TokunagaAdvanced Research Facilities and Services, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education and Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.
Isao OhtaAdvanced Research Facilities and Services, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education and Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.
Tian-Cheng LiDepartment of Virology II, National Institute for Infectious Disease, Musashi-murayama, Tokyo, 208-0011, Japan.
Ryosuke SuzukiDepartment of Virology II, National Institute for Infectious Disease, Musashi-murayama, Tokyo, 208-0011, Japan.
Tetsuro SuzukiDepartment of Virology and Parasitology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan. tesuzuki@hama-med.ac.jp.

Funding

Resource for Biocomputing Visualization and InformaticsP41GM103311 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 2012 to 2017
$8.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103311
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global incidence of dengue, which is caused by dengue virus (DENV) infection, has grown dramatically in recent decades and secondary infection with heterologous serotype of the virus may cause severe symptoms. Efficacious dengue vaccines should be able to provide long-lasting immunity against all four DENV serotypes simultaneously. In this study, we constructed a novel vaccine platform based on tetravalent dengue virus-like particles (DENV-LPs) in which envelope (E) protein carried a FLAG tag sequence at the position located not only in the exterior loop on the protruding domain but outside of dimerization interface of the protein. We demonstrated an effective strategy to produce the DENV-LPs by transient transfection with expression plasmids for pre-membrane and E proteins of DENV-1 to DENV-4 in mammalian cells and to concentrate and purify them with one-step affinity chromatography. Characteristic features of VLPs such as particle size, shape and density were comparable to flavivirus-like particles reported. The neutralizing activity against all four DENV serotypes was successfully induced by immunization with the purified tetravalent VLPs in mice. Simple, one-step purification systems for VLP vaccine platforms using epitope-tagging strategy should be advantageous for vaccine development not only for dengue but for emerging pandemics in the future.

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AnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingCell LineDengueDengue VirusDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHumansMiceOligopeptidesVaccines, CombinedVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleViral Envelope ProteinsAntibodies, NeutralizingFLAG peptideOligopeptidesVaccines, CombinedVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleViral Envelope Proteins

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PMID34475493
PMCPMC8413300

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