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ArticleViruses2025

Superior Potency of Synthetic Virus-like Structures in Vaccine-Induced Antibody Responses Compared to Qβ Bacteriophage Virus-like Particles.

Alexander R Meyer, Libo Li, Wei-Yun Wholey, Bryce Chackerian, Wei Cheng

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Article in Viruses, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors.

Alexander R MeyerDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4453-9561
Libo LiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Wei-Yun WholeyDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Bryce ChackerianDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
Wei ChengDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0332-1566

Funding

Mechanisms of B Cell Responses to Particulate AntigensR01AI155653 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CHENG, WEI, ZIKHERMAN, JULIE · 2021 to 2025
$3.6M
Cellular Biotechnology Training Program (CBTP) - Years 31-35T32GM145304 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Guizhi Zhu · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155653NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM145304NIH HHS 1R01AI155653-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus-like particles are a well-established platform for vaccines, although the molecular mechanisms that underlie the extraordinary potency of many virus-like particles in eliciting strong antibody responses remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that synthetic virus-like structures, a new platform that we have recently developed, are superior to bacteriophage Qβ-based virus-like particles for the induction of long-term neutralizing antibody responses. For the same antigen, both platforms induced antibodies with comparable affinities. The resulting antigen-specific antibodies had similar binding on-rates and off-rates. However, synthetic virus-like structures induced a much higher concentration of functional antibodies in the serum than Qβ-based virus-like particles, suggesting that synthetic virus-like structures are more potent than Qβ-based virus-like particles in the induction of long-lived plasma cells.

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AllolevivirusAntibodies, ViralAntibody FormationVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleAnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingFemaleMiceAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralVaccines, Virus-Like Particleaffinity maturationantibodyQβ bacteriophagesynthetic virus-like structuresvirus-like particles

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PMID40285021
PMCPMC12030905

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