mRNA vaccines: The future of prevention of viral infections?

P Rzymski, A Szuster‐Ciesielska… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines against COVID‐19 are the first authorized biological
preparations developed using this platform. During the pandemic, their administration has …

Evolution of drug delivery systems: From 1950 to 2020 and beyond

H Park, A Otte, K Park - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern drug delivery technology began in 1952 with the advent of the Spansule® sustained-
release capsule technology, which can deliver a drug for 12 h after oral administration …

[HTML][HTML] Infectious RNA: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) biology, therapeutic intervention, and the quest for a vaccine

Y van Heuvel, S Schatz, JF Rosengarten, J Stitz - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
Different mechanisms mediate the toxicity of RNA. Genomic retroviral mRNA hijacks infected
host cell factors to enable virus replication. The viral genomic RNA of the human …

Low protease activity in B cell follicles promotes retention of intact antigens after immunization

A Aung, A Cui, L Maiorino, AP Amini, JR Gregory… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The structural integrity of vaccine antigens is critical to the generation of protective antibody
responses, but the impact of protease activity on vaccination in vivo is poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-resident memory T cells trigger rapid exudation and local antibody accumulation

PC Rosato, S Lotfi-Emran, V Joag, S Wijeyesinghe… - Mucosal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adaptive immunity is didactically partitioned into humoral and cell-mediated effector
mechanisms, which may imply that each arm is separate and does not function together …

[PDF][PDF] Membrane-bound mRNA immunogens lower the threshold to activate HIV Env V2 apex-directed broadly neutralizing B cell precursors in humanized mice

E Melzi, JR Willis, KM Ma, YC Lin, S Kratochvil… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is the core of HIV vaccine design. bnAbs
specific to the V2-apex region of the HIV envelope acquire breadth and potency with modest …

[HTML][HTML] Two centuries of vaccination: historical and conceptual approach and future perspectives

DA Montero, RM Vidal, J Velasco, LJ Carreño… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Over the past two centuries, vaccines have been critical for the prevention of infectious
diseases and are considered milestones in the medical and public health history. The World …

[HTML][HTML] Current status of HIV-1 vaccines

A Hargrave, AS Mustafa, A Hanif, JH Tunio, SNM Hanif - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
HIV-1 infection and its progression to AIDS remains a significant global health challenge,
particularly for low-income countries. Developing a vaccine to prevent HIV-1 infections has …

A reverse vaccinology approach to design an mRNA-based vaccine to provoke a robust immune response against HIV-1

M Naveed, U Ali, T Aziz, MJ Rasool, A Ijaz… - Acta Biochimica …, 2023 - abp.ptbioch.edu.pl
There have been substantial advances in HIV research over the past three decades, but we
are still far from our goal of eliminating HIV-1 infection entirely. Numerous ever-evolving …

[HTML][HTML] New approaches to dendritic cell-based therapeutic vaccines against HIV-1 infection

M Espinar-Buitrago, MA Muñoz-Fernández - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Due to the success of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) in recent years, the
pathological outcome of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection has …