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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Virus-like Particles Produced in Plants: A Promising Platform for Recombinant Vaccine Development.

Eugenia S Mardanova, Egor A Vasyagin, Nikolai V Ravin

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Chemical reviews · 2026
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  4. Harnessing Nanocarriers to Advance Vaccine Development.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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  10. The 6-kilodalton peptide 1 of the familyFrontiers in microbiology · 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.

Eugenia S MardanovaInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-2148-7658
Egor A VasyaginInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0009-0005-2535-1012
Nikolai V RavinInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-1456-1832

Funding

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation 075-15-2022-318
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The capsid proteins of many viruses are capable of spontaneous self-assembly into virus-like particles (VLPs), which do not contain the viral genome and are therefore not infectious. VLPs are structurally similar to their parent viruses and are therefore effectively recognized by the immune system and can induce strong humoral and cellular immune responses. The structural features of VLPs make them an attractive platform for the development of potential vaccines and diagnostic tools. Chimeric VLPs can be obtained by attaching foreign peptides to capsid proteins. Chimeric VLPs present multiple copies of the antigen on their surface, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the immune response. Recombinant VLPs can be produced in different expression systems. Plants are promising biofactories for the production of recombinant proteins, including VLPs. The main advantages of plant expression systems are the overall low cost and safety of plant-produced products due to the absence of pathogens common to plants and animals. This review provides an overview of the VLP platform as an approach to developing plant-produced vaccines, focusing on the use of transient expression systems.

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biofactoryplanttransient expressionvaccinevirus-like particle

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PMID39771262
PMCPMC11678810

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