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ReviewJournal of extracellular vesicles2025

Outer Membrane Vesicles as a Versatile Platform for Vaccine Development: Engineering Strategies, Applications and Challenges.

Asja Garling, Frédéric Auvray, Mathieu Epardaud, Éric Oswald, Priscilla Branchu

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Review in Journal of extracellular vesicles, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing 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

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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Asja GarlingIRSD, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8452-3907
Frédéric AuvrayIRSD, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France.
Mathieu EpardaudINRAE, Université de Tours, ISP, Nouzilly, France.
Éric OswaldIRSD, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3017-0081
Priscilla BranchuIRSD, Université de Toulouse, INSERM, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-1181

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche PreventEHECInstitut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE) Thesis grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are nanosized vesicles naturally secreted by Gram-negative bacteria and represent a promising platform for vaccine development. OMVs possess inherent immunostimulatory properties due to the presence of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), providing self-adjuvanting capabilities and the ability to elicit both innate and adaptive immune responses. This review outlines the advantages of OMVs over traditional vaccine strategies, including their safety, modularity, and the potential for genetic engineering to enable targeted antigen delivery. We describe approaches to enhance OMVs yield and immunogenicity, such as modifications to reduce lipopolysaccharide (LPS) toxicity and systems enabling antigen localization-either on the surface or within the lumen-using fusion constructs like ClyA, Lpp-OmpA, AIDA-I, Hbp, and Sec/Tat signal peptides. We further summarize preclinical applications of OMVs-based vaccines targeting bacterial pathogens, viral infections, and cancer. In addition, we address key challenges in large-scale production, purification, and long-term stability, and explore strategies for conjugating or encapsulating heterologous antigens. Overall, OMVs offer a versatile and scalable extracellular vesicle-based platform with strong potential for next-generation vaccines targeting diverse infectious diseases and beyond.

Indexed as

Bacterial Outer MembraneExtracellular VesiclesVaccine DevelopmentAnimalsGram-Negative BacteriaHumansantigensbioengineeringGram‐negative bacterialipopolysaccharides (LPS)outer membrane vesicles (OMVs)Vaccine platform

Identifiers

PMID40919883
PMCPMC12415872

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