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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Spherical nucleic acids as an infectious disease vaccine platform.

Michelle H Teplensky, Max E Distler, Caroline D Kusmierz, Michael Evangelopoulos, Haley Gula, Derek Elli, Anastasia Tomatsidou, Vlad Nicolaescu, Ian Gelarden, Anjana Yeldandi and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Structural immunotherapy: Harnessing chemical design to build powerful next-generation therapeutics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Controlling intracellular processing to enhance spherical nucleic acid immune stimulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Recent Advances in DNA Nanomaterials.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  17. Molecular DNA dendron vaccines.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michelle H TeplenskyDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Max E DistlerDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Caroline D KusmierzDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0003-2915-8621
Michael EvangelopoulosDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Haley GulaHoward T. Ricketts Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Derek ElliHoward T. Ricketts Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Anastasia TomatsidouHoward T. Ricketts Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Vlad NicolaescuHoward T. Ricketts Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Ian GelardenDepartment of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611.
Anjana YeldandiDepartment of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611.
Daniel BatlleDivision of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611.
Dominique MissiakasHoward T. Ricketts Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0001-6482-9633
Chad A MirkinDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.ORCID 0000-0002-6634-7627
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Chicago · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
STINGing GBM: A First-in- Man Clinical Trial in Surgical Resectable Recurrent GBMP50CA221747 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Pouya Jamshidi · 2018 to 2026
$21.4M
TR&D 7: Cell Specific ProteomicsP41GM108569 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI KELLEHER, NEIL L · 2015 to 2024
$13.6M
Systemic RNA interference to reactivate p53 tumor suppressionR01CA208783 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MIRKIN, CHAD A., STEGH, ALEXANDER H. · 2017 to 2021
$1.8M
Cancer Nanotechnology Training ProgramT32CA186897 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WOLOSCHAK, GAYLE E. · 2015 to 2019
$1.2M
Acquisition of a Thermo Fisher Scientific Q Exactive UHMR mass spectrometerS10OD025194 · OD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI COMPTON, PHILIP DANIEL · 2018 to 2018
$795k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NCI NIH HHS P50 CA221747NCI NIH HHS R01 CA208783NCI NIH HHS T32 CA186897NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM108569NIH HHS S10 OD025194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SignificanceUsing SARS-CoV-2 as a relevant case study for infectious disease, we investigate the structure-function relationships that dictate antiviral spherical nucleic acid (SNA) vaccine efficacy. We show that the SNA architecture can be rapidly employed to target COVID-19 through incorporation of the receptor-binding domain, and that the resulting vaccine potently activates human cells in vitro and mice in vivo. Furthermore, when challenged with a lethal viral infection, only mice treated with the SNA vaccine survived. Taken together, this work underscores the importance of rational vaccine design for infectious disease to yield vaccines that elicit more potent immune responses to effectively fight disease.

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlAnimalsBiotechnologyCommunicable DiseasesCOVID-19HumansNucleic AcidsSARS-CoV-2Vaccine DevelopmentVaccines, DNAViral VaccinesNucleic AcidsVaccines, DNAViral Vaccinesantiviral vaccinesinfectious diseaserational vaccinologyspherical nucleic acids

Identifiers

PMID35312341
PMCPMC9168922
OpenAlexW4220740357

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