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ReviewVaccines2024

Protein Expression Platforms and the Challenges of Viral Antigen Production.

Jamie R V Sookhoo, Zachary Schiffman, Aruna Ambagala, Darwyn Kobasa, Keith Pardee, Shawn Babiuk

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Review in Vaccines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jamie R V SookhooCanadian Food Inspection Agency, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3155-1860
Zachary SchiffmanSpecial Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4778-4941
Aruna AmbagalaCanadian Food Inspection Agency, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1783-2105
Darwyn KobasaSpecial Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6371-7493
Keith PardeeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3M2, Canada.
Shawn BabiukCanadian Food Inspection Agency, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1265-7264

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several protein expression platforms exist for a wide variety of biopharmaceutical needs. A substantial proportion of research and development into protein expression platforms and their optimization since the mid-1900s is a result of the production of viral antigens for use in subunit vaccine research. This review discusses the seven most popular forms of expression systems used in the past decade-bacterial, insect, mammalian, yeast, algal, plant and cell-free systems-in terms of advantages, uses and limitations for viral antigen production in the context of subunit vaccine research. Post-translational modifications, immunogenicity, efficacy, complexity, scalability and the cost of production are major points discussed. Examples of licenced and experimental vaccines are included along with images which summarize the processes involved.

Indexed as

protein expressionsubunit vaccinessynthetic biologyviral antigens

Identifiers

PMID39772006
PMCPMC11680109

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