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ReviewVaccines2023

Yeast-Based Virus-like Particles as an Emerging Platform for Vaccine Development and Delivery.

Vartika Srivastava, Kripa N Nand, Aijaz Ahmad, Ravinder Kumar

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Review in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Vartika SrivastavaDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8636-3413
Kripa N NandDepartment of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA.
Aijaz AhmadDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2845-0727
Ravinder KumarDepartment of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1922-0030

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus-like particles (VLPs) are empty, nanoscale structures morphologically resembling viruses. Internal cavity, noninfectious, and particulate nature with a high density of repeating epitopes, make them an ideal platform for vaccine development and drug delivery. Commercial use of Gardasil-9 and Cervarix showed the usefulness of VLPs in vaccine formulation. Further, chimeric VLPs allow the raising of an immune response against different immunogens and thereby can help reduce the generation of medical or clinical waste. The economically viable production of VLPs significantly impacts their usage, application, and availability. To this end, several hosts have been used and tested. The present review will discuss VLPs produced using different yeasts as fermentation hosts. We also compile a list of studies highlighting the expression and purification of VLPs using a yeast-based platform. We also discuss the advantages of using yeast to generate VLPs over other available systems. Further, the issues or limitations of yeasts for producing VLPs are also summarized. The review also compiles a list of yeast-derived VLP-based vaccines that are presently in public use or in different phases of clinical trials.

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drug deliverysubunitvaccinevirus-like particles (VLPs)yeast

Identifiers

PMID36851356
PMCPMC9965603

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