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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Tetanus Toxin Fragment C: Structure, Drug Discovery Research and Production.

Caroline Bayart, Angélique Mularoni, Nada Hemmani, Soumeya Kerachni, Joachim Jose, Patrice Gouet, Joseph Paladino, Marc Le Borgne

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Caroline BayartAnalytical Sciences, Sanofi, 31/33 Quai Armand Barbès, 69250 Neuville-sur-Saône, France.
Angélique MularoniSmall Molecules for Biological Targets Team, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, CNRS 5286, INSERM 1052, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, 69373 Lyon, France.
Nada HemmaniSmall Molecules for Biological Targets Team, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, CNRS 5286, INSERM 1052, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, 69373 Lyon, France.
Soumeya KerachniSmall Molecules for Biological Targets Team, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, CNRS 5286, INSERM 1052, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, 69373 Lyon, France.
Joachim JoseInstitute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmaCampus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universtität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0666-2676
Patrice GouetUMR 5086, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, CNRS/Université Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9485-6157
Joseph PaladinoAnalytical Sciences, Sanofi, 31/33 Quai Armand Barbès, 69250 Neuville-sur-Saône, France.
Marc Le BorgneSmall Molecules for Biological Targets Team, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, CNRS 5286, INSERM 1052, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, 69373 Lyon, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1398-075X
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRSanofi (France) · FRUniversity of Münster · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tetanus toxoid (TTd) plays an important role in the pharmaceutical world, especially in vaccines. The toxoid is obtained after formaldehyde treatment of the tetanus toxin. In parallel, current emphasis in the drug discovery field is put on producing well-defined and safer drugs, explaining the interest in finding new alternative proteins. The tetanus toxin fragment C (TTFC) has been extensively studied both as a neuroprotective agent for central nervous system disorders owing to its neuronal properties and as a carrier protein in vaccines. Indeed, it is derived from a part of the tetanus toxin and, as such, retains its immunogenic properties without being toxic. Moreover, this fragment has been well characterized, and its entire structure is known. Here, we propose a systematic review of TTFC by providing information about its structural features, its properties and its methods of production. We also describe the large uses of TTFC in the field of drug discovery. TTFC can therefore be considered as an attractive alternative to TTd and remarkably offers a wide range of uses, including as a carrier, delivery vector, conjugate, booster, inducer, and neuroprotector.

Indexed as

carrier proteinCNS deliveryfusion proteinimmunogenicityneuronal protectionproductionstructuretetanus toxin fragment Cusesvaccine

Identifiers

PMID35745675
PMCPMC9227095
OpenAlexW4283014428

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