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ArticleMicrobial cell factories2023

Preparation of a Klebsiella pneumoniae conjugate nanovaccine using glycol-engineered Escherichia coli.

Yan Liu, Chao Pan, Kangfeng Wang, Yan Guo, YanGe Sun, Xiang Li, Peng Sun, Jun Wu, Hengliang Wang, Li Zhu

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Article in Microbial cell factories, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yan Liu *State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
Chao Pan *State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
Kangfeng WangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
Yan GuoState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
YanGe SunState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
Xiang LiState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
Peng SunState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China.
Jun WuState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China. junwu1969@163.com.
Hengliang WangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China. wanghl@bmi.ac.cn.
Li ZhuState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, 100071, China. jewly54@bmi.ac.cn.
Beijing Biocytogen (China) · CNHebei University · CN

Funding

Beijing Nova Program 2022045National Key Research and Development Project of China 2021YFC2102100National Natural Science Foundation of China 81930122National Natural Science Foundation of China 82171819National Natural Science Foundation of China U20A20361
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEngineered strains of Escherichia coli have been used to produce bioconjugate vaccines using Protein Glycan Coupling Technology (PGCT). Nanovaccines have also entered the vaccine development arena with advances in nanotechnology and have been significantly developed, but chassis cells for conjugate nanovaccines have not been reported.

resultsTo facilitate nanovaccine preparation, a generic recombinant protein (SpyCather4573) was used as the acceptor protein for O-linked glycosyltransferase PglL, and a glycol-engineered Escherichia coli strain with these two key components (SC4573 and PglL) integrated in its genome was developed in this study. The targeted glycoproteins with antigenic polysaccharides produced by our bacterial chassis can be spontaneously bound to proteinous nanocarriers with surface exposed SpyTag in vitro to form conjugate nanovaccines. To improve the yields of the targeted glycoprotein, a series of gene cluster deletion experiments was carried out, and the results showed that the deletion of the yfdGHI gene cluster increased the expression of glycoproteins. Using the updated system, to the best of our knowledge, we report for the first time the successful preparation of an effective Klebsiella pneumoniae O1 conjugate nanovaccine (KPO1-VLP), with antibody titers between 4 and 5 (Log10) after triple immunization and up to 100% protection against virulent strain challenge.

conclusionsOur results define a convenient and reliable framework for bacterial glycoprotein vaccine preparation that is flexible and versatile, and the genomic stability of the engineered chassis cells promises a wide range of applications for biosynthetic glycobiology research.

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Escherichia coliKlebsiella pneumoniaeBacterial VaccinesGlycolsPolysaccharidesVaccines, ConjugateBacterial VaccinesGlycolsPolysaccharidesVaccines, ConjugateBacterial chassisBioconjugate vaccineConjugate nanovaccineGlycosyltransferaseKlebsiella pneumoniae

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