Escherichia coli-Based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis for Iterative Design of Tandem-Core Virus-Like Particles

N Colant, B Melinek, S Frank, W Rosenberg… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tandem-core hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) virus-like particles (VLPs), in which two
HBcAg monomers are joined together by a peptide linker, can be used to display two …

Escherichia coli-based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis of Self-Assembling Particles for Vaccine Production and Gene Therapy

NA Colant - 2020 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The traditional “one-size-fits-all” mass production model commonly used in biologics
manufacturing is insufficient to accommodate the advent of personalised medicines and the …

Hepatitis B core–based virus–like particles to present heterologous epitopes

K Roose, SD Baets, B Schepens… - Expert review of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Since the first effort to recombinantly express the hepatitis B core protein (HBc) in bacteria,
the remarkable virion-like structure has fuelled interest in unraveling the structural and …

Production and purification of chimeric HBc virus-like particles carrying influenza virus LAH domain as vaccine candidates

A Kazaks, IN Lu, S Farinelle, A Ramirez, V Crescente… - BMC …, 2017 - Springer
Background The lack of a universal influenza vaccine is a global health problem. Interest is
now focused on structurally conserved protein domains capable of eliciting protection …

Tandem fusion of hepatitis B core antigen allows assembly of virus-like particles in bacteria and plants with enhanced capacity to accommodate foreign proteins

H Peyret, A Gehin, EC Thuenemann, D Blond… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The core protein of the hepatitis B virus, HBcAg, assembles into highly immunogenic virus-
like particles (HBc VLPs) when expressed in a variety of heterologous systems. Specifically …

Synthesis and Assembly of Hepatitis B Virus-Like Particles in a Pichia pastoris Cell-Free System

AJ Spice, R Aw, DG Bracewell… - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are supramolecular protein assemblies with the potential for
unique and exciting applications in synthetic biology and medicine. Despite the attention …

Scalable chromatography-based purification of virus-like particle carrier for epitope based influenza A vaccine produced in Escherichia coli

P Lagoutte, C Mignon, S Donnat, G Stadthagen… - Journal of virological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are promising molecular structures for the design and
construction of novel vaccines, diagnostic tools, and gene therapy vectors. Size, oligomer …

Development of virus-like particle technology from small highly symmetric to large complex virus-like particle structures

P Pushko, P Pumpens, E Grens - Intervirology, 2013 - karger.com
Virus-like particle (VLP) technology is a promising approach for the construction of novel
vaccines, diagnostic tools, and gene therapy vectors. Initially, VLPs were primarily derived …

Influenza virus-like particles elicit broader immune responses than whole virion inactivated influenza virus or recombinant hemagglutinin

RA Bright, DM Carter, S Daniluk, FR Toapanta… - Vaccine, 2007 - Elsevier
Influenza virus is a highly infectious respiratory pathogen that results in severe morbidity and
mortality. The current licensed trivalent vaccine formulations in the US are made from virus …

Assessing sequence plasticity of a virus-like nanoparticle by evolution toward a versatile scaffold for vaccines and drug delivery

Y Lu, W Chan, BY Ko, CC VanLang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Virus-like particles (VLPs) have been extensively explored as nanoparticle vehicles for
many applications in biotechnology (eg, vaccines, drug delivery, imaging agents …