| Literature DB >> 26434555 |
Xiaozhou Luo1, Tao Liu2, Ying Wang2, Haiqun Jia2, Yuhan Zhang2, Dawna Caballero2, Juanjuan Du2, Rongsheng E Wang2, Danling Wang2, Peter G Schultz3, Feng Wang4.
Abstract
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in children. We have generated an epitope-specific RSV vaccine by grafting a neutralizing epitope (F-epitope) in its native conformation into an immunoglobulin scaffold. The resulting antibody fusion exhibited strong binding affinity to Motavizumab, an RSV neutralizing antibody, and effectively induced potent neutralizing antibodies in mice. This work illustrates the potential of the immunoglobulin molecule as a scaffold to present conformationally constrained B-cell epitopes.Entities:
Keywords: RSV vaccine; antibodies; conformations; polypeptides; protein engineering
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26434555 PMCID: PMC4715490 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507928
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336