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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Impact and Control of Sugar Size in Glycoconjugate Vaccines.

Giuseppe Stefanetti, Calman Alexander MacLennan, Francesca Micoli

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Carbohydrate Chemistry II.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Giuseppe StefanettiDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029 Urbino, Italy.
Calman Alexander MacLennanEnteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 500 5th Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Francesca MicoliGSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Jenner Institute · GBToscana Life Sciences · ITUniversity of Urbino · IT

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P008852/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycoconjugate vaccines have contributed enormously to reducing and controlling encapsulated bacterial infections for over thirty years. Glycoconjugate vaccines are based on a carbohydrate antigen that is covalently linked to a carrier protein; this is necessary to cause T cell responses for optimal immunogenicity, and to protect young children. Many interdependent parameters affect the immunogenicity of glycoconjugate vaccines, including the size of the saccharide antigen. Here, we examine and discuss the impact of glycan chain length on the efficacy of glycoconjugate vaccines and report the methods employed to size polysaccharide antigens, while highlighting the underlying reaction mechanisms. A better understanding of the impact of key parameters on the immunogenicity of glycoconjugates is critical to developing a new generation of highly effective vaccines.

Indexed as

GlycoconjugatesSugarsAntigensCarbohydratesCarrier ProteinsChildChild, PreschoolHumansPolysaccharidesVaccines, ConjugateAntigensCarbohydratesCarrier ProteinsGlycoconjugatesPolysaccharidesSugarsVaccines, Conjugatefragmentation of polysaccharidesglycoconjugatesimmunogenicitysugar lengthvaccine

Identifiers

PMID36234967
PMCPMC9572008
OpenAlexW4297988253

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Registered trials

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