Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40727039›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in medical technology2025

A plant secretory sequence enhances immunogenicity of electroporated COVID-19 DNA vaccines.

Olivia Costantina Demurtas, Flavia Novelli, Doriana Triggiani, Caterina Merla, Emanuela Pasquali, Silvia Massa, Rosella Franconi, Claudio Pioli

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in medical technology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Olivia Costantina DemurtasEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Flavia NovelliEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Doriana TriggianiEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Caterina MerlaEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Emanuela PasqualiEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Silvia MassaEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Sustainable Agrofood Systems (SSPT-AGROS), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Rosella FranconiEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.
Claudio PioliEnergy and Sustainable Economic Development, Division of Biotechnologies (SSPT-BIOTEC), ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: As paradigmatically shown by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, nucleic acids-based vaccines represent powerful tools to rapidly tackle fast emerging pathogens limiting their spread in human populations and/or reducing the health impact in affected patients. Compared with RNA vaccines, DNA vaccines offer higher stability and amenability to fast development due to tailor-made design of several candidates at a time for (pre)clinical settings. However, their scarce immunogenicity represents an important drawback, requiring technological strategies to enhance cellular uptake, protein expression and increase the ability to induce an immune response. Methods: We investigated the effects of combining a plant secretory signal sequence of the PolyGalacturonase-Inhibiting Protein (PGIP) from Results and discussion: All the DNA constructs resulted in protein expression

Indexed as

COVID-19DNA vaccineselectro-gene transfer (EGT)plant secretory sequencereceptor-binding domain (RBD)SARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID40727039
PMCPMC12301313

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.