Virus like particles as a platform for cancer vaccine development [PDF]
Cancers have killed millions of people in human history and are still posing a serious health problem worldwide. Therefore, there is an urgent need for developing preventive and therapeutic cancer vaccines.
Hui Kian Ong, Wen Siang Tan, Kok Lian Ho
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Cellular phosphoinositides and the maturation of bluetongue virus, a non-enveloped capsid virus. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Bluetongue virus (BTV), a member of Orbivirus genus in the Reoviridae family is a double capsid virus enclosing a genome of 10 double-stranded RNA segments. A non-structural protein of BTV, NS3, which is associated with cellular membranes and
Roy, Polly +3 more
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Optimizing the synthesis and purification of MS2 virus like particles
Introducing bacteriophage MS2 virus-like particles (VLPs) as gene and drug delivery tools increases the demand for optimizing their production and purification procedure.
Khadijeh Hashemi +6 more
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Virus-like particles in the plant hopper Javesella pellucida Fab. [PDF]
Javesella pellucida Fab. (Homoptera, Delphacidae) is one of two plant hoppers known to transmit the pathogen called European wheat striate mosaic virus (EWSMV) (Kisimoto & Watson, 1965) which has not yet been purified or identified visually (Serjeant ...
Watson, M. A. +2 more
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Efficient production of foot-and-mouth disease virus empty capsids in insect cells following down regulation of 3C protease activity [PDF]
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a significant economically and distributed globally pathogen of Artiodactyla. Current vaccines are chemically inactivated whole virus particles that require large-scale virus growth in strict bio-containment with ...
Owens, Ray +50 more
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Construction and characterization of chimaeric human immunodefiency virus type 1 subtype C Gag virus-like particles [PDF]
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-128).In this study I explored the possibility of making HIV-1 subtype C Pr55gag-based chimaeric virus-like particles (VLPs) as a boost to the HIV-IC multigene DNA vaccine pTHr.grttnC, which encodes a ...
Halsey, Richard James
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Alterations of membrane curvature during influenza virus budding [PDF]
Influenza A virus belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family. It is an enveloped virus that contains a segmented and negative-sense RNA genome. Influenza A viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional major pandemics, are a major cause of morbidity and ...
Martyna, Agnieszka, Rossman, Jeremy S.
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Influenza Virus Like Particles (VLPs): Opportunities for H7N9 Vaccine Development
In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, influenza virus remains a major threat to public health due to its potential to cause epidemics and pandemics with significant human mortality.
Peter Pushko, Irina Tretyakova
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The present work addresses the thermal remodelling of flexible plant viruses with a helical structure and virus-like particles (VLPs). Here, for the first time, the possibility of filamentous Alternanthera mosaic virus (AltMV) virions' thermal transition
Tatiana I Manukhova +6 more
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Protein Cargo Encapsulation by Virus-Like Particles: Strategies and Applications [PDF]
Viruses and the recombinant protein cages assembled from their structural proteins, known as virus-like particles (VLPs), have gained wide interest as tools in biotechnology and nanotechnology.
Noor, Dashti +3 more
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