A Perspective on Nanoparticle Universal Influenza Vaccines.
A Perspective on Nanoparticle Universal Influenza Vaccines.
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DOI:
10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00206
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发表时间:
2018-12-14
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Wang BZ
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作者:
Deng L;Wang BZ
Annual influenza infections cause massive economic loss and pose severe threats to public health worldwide. Seasonal influenza vaccines are the most effective means of preventing influenza infections but still possess major weaknesses: requiring updating vaccine strains every year, difficulty for accurate prediction of viruses that will be circulating and low protection efficacy due to mismatching, time-consuming egg-dependent production, and ineffectiveness of protection against influenza pandemics. The ultimate quest is for a universal influenza vaccine that could be used from year to year. One approach under investigation is to design influenza vaccine immunogens based on conserved amino acid sequences or conformational epitopes, rather than strain-specific ones of influenza viruses. Such vaccines can elicit broadly reactive humoral and cellular immunity. Universal influenza vaccine development has intensively employed nanotechnology because the structural and morphological properties of nanoparticles dramatically improve vaccine immunogenicity and induced immunity duration. Layered protein nanoparticles can eliminate the possibility of off-target immune responses, integrate epitopes into different regions of the particles for differentiated antigen-recognition and processing, and facilitate comprehensive immune response induction. Herein, we reviewed the designs of effective nanoparticle universal influenza vaccines, the recent discoveries of specific nanoparticle features that contribute to immunogenicity enhancement, and recent progress in clinical trials.