Insect cell technology is a versatile and robust vaccine manufacturing platform

JA Mena, AA Kamen - Expert review of vaccines, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Baculovirus and insect cell culture technologies have mostly been limited to research
laboratories for the transient expression of target proteins for drug development purposes …

Swine influenza virus vaccines: to change or not to change—that's the question

K Van Reeth, W Ma - Swine Influenza, 2013 - Springer
Commercial vaccines currently available against swine influenza virus (SIV) are inactivated,
adjuvanted, whole virus vaccines, based on H1N1 and/or H3N2 and/or H1N2 SIVs. In …

Self-assembling influenza nanoparticle vaccines elicit broadly neutralizing H1N1 antibodies

M Kanekiyo, CJ Wei, HM Yassine, PM McTamney… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Influenza viruses pose a significant threat to the public and are a burden on global health
systems,. Each year, influenza vaccines must be rapidly produced to match circulating …

Structural and genetic basis for development of broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies

D Lingwood, PM McTamney, HM Yassine, JRR Whittle… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Influenza viruses take a yearly toll on human life despite efforts to contain them with
seasonal vaccines. These viruses evade human immunity through the evolution of variants …

Glycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune response

CC Wang, JR Chen, YC Tseng… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Recent cases of avian influenza H5N1 and the swine-origin 2009 H1N1 have caused a
great concern that a global disaster like the 1918 influenza pandemic may occur again. Viral …

Cross-neutralization of 1918 and 2009 influenza viruses: role of glycans in viral evolution and vaccine design

CJ Wei, JC Boyington, K Dai, KV Houser… - Science translational …, 2010 - science.org
New strains of H1N1 influenza virus have emerged episodically over the last century to
cause human pandemics, notably in 1918 and recently in 2009. Pandemic viruses typically …

Glycosylation at 158N of the hemagglutinin protein and receptor binding specificity synergistically affect the antigenicity and immunogenicity of a live attenuated H5N1 …

W Wang, B Lu, H Zhou, AL Suguitan Jr… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A live attenuated influenza A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (H5N1) vaccine virus (VN04
ca) has receptor binding specificity to α2, 3-linked sialosides (α2, 3SAL), and a single dose …

Expression of functional recombinant hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins from the novel H7N9 influenza virus using the baculovirus expression system

I Margine, P Palese, F Krammer - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2013 - jove.com
The baculovirus expression system is a powerful tool for expression of recombinant proteins.
Here we use it to produce correctly folded and glycosylated versions of the influenza A virus …

A carboxy-terminal trimerization domain stabilizes conformational epitopes on the stalk domain of soluble recombinant hemagglutinin substrates

F Krammer, I Margine, GS Tan, N Pica, JC Krause… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Recently, a new class of broadly neutralizing anti-influenza virus antibodies that target the
stalk domain of the viral hemagglutinin was discovered. As such, induction, isolation …

Prime-boost interval matters: a randomized phase 1 study to identify the minimum interval necessary to observe the H5 DNA influenza vaccine priming effect

JE Ledgerwood, K Zephir, Z Hu, CJ Wei… - The Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background. H5 DNA priming was previously shown to improve the antibody response to
influenza A (H5N1) monovalent inactivated vaccine (MIV) among individuals for whom there …