Virus-like particles in vaccine development

A Roldão, MCM Mellado, LR Castilho… - Expert review of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are multiprotein structures that mimic the organization and
conformation of authentic native viruses but lack the viral genome, potentially yielding safer …

Thirty years of baculovirus–insect cell protein expression: from dark horse to mainstream technology

MM Van Oers, GP Pijlman… - Journal of General …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
In December 1983, a seminal paper appeared on the overexpression of human IFN-β in
insect cells with a genetically engineered baculovirus. The finding that baculoviruses …

Platforms, advances, and technical challenges in virus-like particles-based vaccines

R Gupta, K Arora, SS Roy, A Joseph… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Viral infectious diseases threaten human health and global stability. Several vaccine
platforms, such as DNA, mRNA, recombinant viral vectors, and virus-like particle-based …

The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases

R Caspi, T Altman, JM Dale, K Dreher… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The MetaCyc database (MetaCyc. org) is a comprehensive and freely
accessible resource for metabolic pathways and enzymes from all domains of life. The …

Large-scale production and purification of VLP-based vaccines

T Vicente, A Roldão, C Peixoto, MJT Carrondo… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2011 - Elsevier
Virus-like particles (VLPs) hold tremendous potential as vaccine candidates. These
innovative biopharmaceuticals present the remarkable advantages of closely mimicking the …

Protein production using the baculovirus‐insect cell expression system

A Contreras‐Gómez, A Sánchez‐Mirón… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The baculovirus‐insect cell expression system is widely used in producing recombinant
proteins. This review is focused on the use of this expression system in developing …

[HTML][HTML] The cell density effect in animal cell-based bioprocessing: Questions, insights and perspectives

J Lavado-García, P Pérez-Rubio, L Cervera… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges in the development of bioprocesses based on cell transient
expression is the commonly reported reduction of cell specific productivity at increasing cell …

Insect cells as factories for biomanufacturing

JC Drugmand, YJ Schneider, SN Agathos - Biotechnology advances, 2012 - Elsevier
Insect cells (IC) and particularly lepidopteran cells are an attractive alternative to mammalian
cells for biomanufacturing. Insect cell culture, coupled with the lytic expression capacity of …

Baculovirus as a gene delivery vector: recent understandings of molecular alterations in transduced cells and latest applications

CY Chen, CY Lin, GY Chen, YC Hu - Biotechnology advances, 2011 - Elsevier
Baculovirus infects insects in nature and is non-pathogenic to humans, but can transduce a
broad range of mammalian and avian cells. Thanks to the biosafety, large cloning capacity …

Kinetic modeling of virus growth in cells

J Yin, J Redovich - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
When a virus infects a host cell, it hijacks the biosynthetic capacity of the cell to produce
virus progeny, a process that may take less than an hour or more than a week. The overall …