Virus-like particles as a highly efficient vaccine platform: diversity of targets and production systems and advances in clinical development

N Kushnir, SJ Streatfield, V Yusibov - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are a class of subunit vaccines that differentiate themselves from
soluble recombinant antigens by stronger protective immunogenicity associated with the …

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 …

Escherichia coli-derived virus-like particles in vaccine development

X Huang, X Wang, J Zhang, N Xia, Q Zhao - npj Vaccines, 2017 - nature.com
Recombinant virus-like particle-based vaccines are composed of viral structural proteins
and mimic authentic native viruses but are devoid of viral genetic materials. They are the …

The application of virus-like particles as vaccines and biological vehicles

D Yan, YQ Wei, HC Guo, SQ Sun - Applied microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Virus-like particles (VLPs) can be spontaneously self-assembled by viral structural proteins
under appropriate conditions in vitro while excluding the genetic material and potential …

Hepatitis C virus core protein is a dimeric alpha-helical protein exhibiting membrane protein features

S Boulant, C Vanbelle, C Ebel, F Penin… - Journal of …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The building block of hepatitis C virus (HCV) nucleocapsid, the core protein, together with
viral RNA, is composed of different domains involved in RNA binding and homo …

Hepatitis C viral life cycle

T Suzuki, K Ishii, H Aizaki, T Wakita - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been recognized as a major cause of chronic liver diseases
worldwide. Molecular studies of the virus became possible with the successful cloning of its …

[HTML][HTML] HCV genome and life cycle

S Chevaliez, JM Pawlotsky - Hepatitis C viruses: genomes and …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection afflicts more than 170 million people worldwide, with the
great majority of patients with acute hepatitis C developing chronic HCV infection. It can …

Molecular biology of hepatitis C virus

T Suzuki, H Aizaki, K Murakami, I Shoji… - Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV), which is distributed worldwide, often becomes
persistent, causing chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. For many …

Identification of novel RNA secondary structures within the hepatitis C virus genome reveals a cooperative involvement in genome packaging

H Stewart, RJ Bingham, SJ White, EC Dykeman… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The specific packaging of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome is hypothesised to be driven
by Core-RNA interactions. To identify the regions of the viral genome involved in this …

Unique features of hepatitis C virus capsid formation revealed by de novo cell-free assembly

KC Klein, SJ Polyak, JR Lingappa - Journal of virology, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
The assembly of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is poorly understood, largely due to the lack of
mammalian cell culture systems that are easily manipulated and produce high titers of virus …