Structural and immunological principles leading to chemically synthesized, multiantigenic, multistage, minimal subunit-based vaccine development

ME Patarroyo, A Bermúdez, MA Patarroyo - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
Dedicated to the memory of Professors Henry G. Kunkel and Bruce Merrifield (Rockefeller
University, New York), who introduced us to the fascinating worlds of immunology and …

What Is Known about the Immune Response Induced by Plasmodium vivax Malaria Vaccine Candidates?

C López, Y Yepes-Pérez, N Hincapié-Escobar… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax continues being one of the most important infectious
diseases around the world; P. vivax is the second most prevalent species and has the …

Specific Interaction between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lipoprotein‐derived Peptides and Target Cells Inhibits Mycobacterial Entry In Vitro

M Ocampo, H Curtidor, M Vanegas… - Chemical biology & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) continues being one of the diseases having the greatest mortality rates
around the world, 8.7 million cases having been reported in 2011. An efficient vaccine …

IMPIPS: The Im mune P rotection-I nducing P rotein S tructure Concept in the Search for Steric-Electron and Topochemical Principles for Complete Fully-Protective …

ME Patarroyo, A Bermúdez, MP Alba, M Vanegas… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Determining immune protection-inducing protein structures (IMPIPS) involves defining the
stereo-electron and topochemical characteristics which are essential in MHC-p-TCR …

Mce4F Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein peptides can inhibit invasion of human cell lines

DC Rodríguez, M Ocampo, Y Varela… - Pathogens and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This work was aimed at studying the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv Rv3494c protein,
taking into account that it belongs to the mammalian cell entry family (mce) which is thought …

[HTML][HTML] Immune protection-inducing protein structures (IMPIPS) against malaria: the weapons needed for beating Odysseus

ME Patarroyo, MA Patarroyo, L Pabón, H Curtidor… - Vaccine, 2015 - Elsevier
The review covers the functional and structural approach followed by our group for more
than 34 years in the search for a methodology that allows the rational design of chemically …

Recent advances in the development of a chemically synthesised anti-malarial vaccine

H Curtidor, ME Patarroyo… - Expert Opinion on …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Obtaining an effective antimalarial vaccine has represented one of the biggest
public health challenges over the last 50 years. Despite efforts by many laboratories around …

Functional, immunological and three-dimensional analysis of chemically synthesised sporozoite peptides as components of a fully-effective antimalarial vaccine

H Curtidor, M Vanegas, MP Alba… - Current medicinal …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Our ongoing search for a fully-effective vaccine against the Plasmodium falciparum parasite
(causing the most lethal form of human malaria) has been focused on identifying and …

Conserved binding regions provide the clue for peptide-based vaccine development: a chemical perspective

H Curtidor, C Reyes, A Bermúdez, M Vanegas… - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Synthetic peptides have become invaluable biomedical research and medicinal chemistry
tools for studying functional roles, ie, binding or proteolytic activity, naturally-occurring …

Biological and structural characteristics of the binding peptides from the sporozoite proteins essential for cell traversal (SPECT)-1 and-2

ME Patarroyo, MP Alba, H Curtidor - Peptides, 2011 - Elsevier
The sporozoite microneme proteins essential for cell traversal, SPECT-1 and SPECT-2, are
considered attractive pre-erythrocytic immune targets due to the key role they play in …