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 …

Distinct carbon sources affect structural and functional maturation of cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells

C Correia, A Koshkin, P Duarte, D Hu, A Teixeira… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The immature phenotype of human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-
CMs) constrains their potential in cell therapy and drug testing. In this study, we report that …

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 …

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 …

Dynamic interactions between Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus and its host cells revealed by transcriptome analysis

J Xue, N Qiao, W Zhang, RL Cheng, XQ Zhang… - Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although microarray and expressed sequence tag (EST)-based approaches have been
used to profile gene expression during baculovirus infection, the response of host genes to …

Insect cells as a production platform of complex virus-like particles

F Fernandes, AP Teixeira, N Carinhas… - Expert review of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are multiprotein structures that resemble the conformation of
native viruses but lack a viral genome, potentiating their application as safer and cheaper …

Production of oncolytic adenovirus and human mesenchymal stem cells in a single‐use, vertical‐wheel bioreactor system: impact of bioreactor design on performance …

MFQ Sousa, MM Silva, D Giroux… - Biotechnology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Anchorage‐dependent cell cultures are used for the production of viruses, viral vectors, and
vaccines, as well as for various cell therapies and tissue engineering applications. Most of …