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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2021

Immunobiology of Carbohydrates: Implications for Novel Vaccine and Adjuvant Design Against Infectious Diseases.

Giuseppe Stefanetti, Francesco Borriello, Barbara Richichi, Ivan Zanoni, Luigi Lay

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Giuseppe StefanettiDepartment of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Francesco BorrielloDivision of Immunology, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Barbara RichichiDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Ivan ZanoniDivision of Immunology, Division of Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Luigi LayDepartment of Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Funding

Small-molecule adjuvants to enhance the efficacy of flu vaccines in newborns and the elderly75N93019C00044 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, OFER · 2019 to 2023
$11.0M
Innate control of the inflammatory process during fungal infectionsR01AI121066 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ZANONI, IVAN · 2016 to 2025
$4.8M
Development of a novel adjuvant strategy enabled by modulation of the physical properties of fungal mannansR01AI165505 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Ivan Zanoni · 2021 to 2026
$4.6M
Elucidating the Structural Requirements for Next-Gen Glycoconjugate VaccinesR01AI148273 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KASPER, DENNIS L. · 2020 to 2024
$3.0M
NIAID NIH HHS 75N93019C00044NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI121066NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148273NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI165505
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carbohydrates are ubiquitous molecules expressed on the surface of nearly all living cells, and their interaction with carbohydrate-binding proteins is critical to many immunobiological processes. Carbohydrates are utilized as antigens in many licensed vaccines against bacterial pathogens. More recently, they have also been considered as adjuvants. Interestingly, unlike other types of vaccines, adjuvants have improved immune response to carbohydrate-based vaccine in humans only in a few cases. Furthermore, despite the discovery of many new adjuvants in the last years, aluminum salts, when needed, remain the only authorized adjuvant for carbohydrate-based vaccines. In this review, we highlight historical and recent advances on the use of glycans either as vaccine antigens or adjuvants, and we review the use of currently available adjuvants to improve the efficacy of carbohydrate-based vaccines. A better understanding of the mechanism of carbohydrate interaction with innate and adaptive immune cells will benefit the design of a new generation of glycan-based vaccines and of immunomodulators to fight both longstanding and emerging diseases.

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Communicable DiseasesVaccinesAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigensCarbohydratesHumansAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigensCarbohydratesVaccinesadaptive immunityadjuvantscarbohydrate-based adjuvantscarbohydrate-based vaccinescarbohydratesglycoconjugatesinnate immunityvaccines

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PMID35118012
PMCPMC8803737

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