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ReviewBioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy2022

Plant-Derived Human Vaccines: Recent Developments.

Jennifer Stander, Sandiswa Mbewana, Ann E Meyers

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Review in BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. The Nicotiana benthamiana Biofactory.Plant biotechnology journal · 2026
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  5. Transient expression of human interleukin-15 inPlant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025
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  7. Biofortification of potato nutrition.Journal of advanced research · 2025
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  13. Green Biologics: Harnessing the Power of Plants to Produce Pharmaceuticals.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  17. Antigen Delivery Systems: Past, Present, and Future.Biomolecules & therapeutics · 2023
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  19. Oral Vaccination of Largemouth Bass (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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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

3 authors.

Jennifer StanderBiopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9044-227X
Sandiswa MbewanaBiopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-2508
Ann E MeyersBiopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa. Ann.meyers@uct.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2116-7913

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The idea of producing vaccines in plants originated in the late 1980s. Initially, it was contemplated that this notion could facilitate the concept of edible vaccines, making them more cost effective and easily accessible. Initial studies on edible vaccines focussed on the use of a variety of different transgenic plant host species for the production of vaccine antigens. However, adequate expression levels of antigens, the difficulties predicted with administration of consistent doses, and regulatory rules required for growth of transgenic plants gave way to the development of vaccine candidates that could be purified and administered parenterally. The field has subsequently advanced with improved expression techniques including a shift from using transgenic to transient expression of antigens, refinement of purification protocols, a deeper understanding of the biological processes and a wealth of evidence of immunogenicity and efficacy of plant-produced vaccine candidates, all contributing to the successful practice of what is now known as biopharming or plant molecular farming. The establishment of this technology has resulted in the development of many different types of vaccine candidates including subunit vaccines and various different types of nanoparticle vaccines targeting a wide variety of bacterial and viral diseases. This has brought further acceptance of plants as a suitable platform for vaccine production and in this review, we discuss the most recent advances in the production of vaccines in plants for human use.

Indexed as

VaccinationVaccines, EdibleAntigensHumansPlants, Genetically ModifiedVaccines, SubunitAntigensVaccines, EdibleVaccines, Subunit

Identifiers

PMID35821564
PMCPMC9275545

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