Prospects for developing an hepatitis C virus E1E2‐based nanoparticle vaccine

EA Toth, AK Andrianov… - Reviews in Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, more than 58 million people are chronically infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
with 1.5 million new infections occurring each year. An effective vaccine for HCV is therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Induction of cross-neutralizing antibodies by a permuted hepatitis C virus glycoprotein nanoparticle vaccine candidate

K Sliepen, L Radić, J Capella-Pujol… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects approximately 58 million people and causes~
300,000 deaths yearly. The only target for HCV neutralizing antibodies is the highly …

Structure of the hepatitis C virus E1E2 glycoprotein complex

A Torrents de la Peña, K Sliepen, L Eshun-Wilson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and
hepatocellular carcinoma in humans and afflicts more than 58 million people worldwide. The …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis C virus envelope protein dynamics and the link to hypervariable region 1

EH Augestad, J Bukh, J Prentoe - Current opinion in virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Conformational dynamics of viral envelope proteins seem to be involved in mediating
evasion from neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) by mechanisms that limit exposure of …

Optimized cell systems for the investigation of hepatitis C virus E1E2 glycoproteins

MD Kalemera, J Capella-Pujol… - Journal of General …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Great strides have been made in understanding and treating hepatitis C virus (HCV) thanks
to the development of various experimental systems including cell-culture-proficient HCV …

Intra-host analysis of hepaciviral glycoprotein evolution reveals signatures associated with viral persistence and clearance

A Gömer, RJP Brown, S Pfaender, K Deterding… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Even 30 years after the discovery of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in humans there is still no
vaccine available. Reasons for this include the high mutation rate of HCV, which allows the …

Structure-based design of hepatitis C virus E2 glycoprotein improves serum binding and cross-neutralization

BG Pierce, ZY Keck, R Wang, P Lau… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
An effective vaccine for hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major unmet need, and it requires an
antigen that elicits immune responses to key conserved epitopes. Based on structures of …

Polyvalent immunization elicits a synergistic broadly neutralizing immune response to hypervariable region 1 variants of hepatitis C virus

AI Mosa, DS Campo, Y Khudyakov… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
A hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine is urgently needed. Vaccine development has been
hindered by HCV's genetic diversity, particularly within the immunodominant hypervariable …

[HTML][HTML] From structural studies to HCV vaccine design

I Yechezkel, M Law, N Tzarum - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a serious and growing public health problem despite recent
developments of antiviral therapeutics. To achieve global elimination of HCV, an effective …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis C virus hypervariable region 1 antibodies interrupt E2-SR-B1 interaction to suppress viral infection

K Deng, Q Zhou, Z Xu, Y Yang, X Liu, C Li, M Chen… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Whether hypervariable region 1 (HVR1)-targeting antibodies elicited during
natural hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection contribute to virus clearance and what is the …