The Versatile Manipulations of Self-Assembled Proteins in Vaccine Design.
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SUBMITTER: Nguyen QD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7919822 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
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The Versatile Manipulations of Self-Assembled Proteins in Vaccine Design.
Nguyen Que Dan QD Kikuchi Kosuke K Maity Basudev B Ueno Takafumi T
International journal of molecular sciences 20210216 4
Protein assemblies provide unique structural features which make them useful as carrier molecules in biomedical and chemical science. Protein assemblies can accommodate a variety of organic, inorganic and biological molecules such as small proteins and peptides and have been used in development of subunit vaccines via display parts of viral pathogens or antigens. Such subunit vaccines are much safer than traditional vaccines based on inactivated pathogens which are more likely to produce side-ef ...[more]
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