Virus-like particles: Revolutionary platforms for developing vaccines against emerging infectious diseases

H Tariq, S Batool, S Asif, M Ali, BH Abbasi - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are nanostructures that possess diverse applications in
therapeutics, immunization, and diagnostics. With the recent advancements in biomedical …

Bacterial biopolymers: from pathogenesis to advanced materials

MF Moradali, BHA Rehm - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Bacteria are prime cell factories that can efficiently convert carbon and nitrogen sources into
a large diversity of intracellular and extracellular biopolymers, such as polysaccharides …

Challenges Associated With the Formation of Recombinant Protein Inclusion Bodies in Escherichia coli and Strategies to Address Them for Industrial Applications

A Bhatwa, W Wang, YI Hassan, N Abraham… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recombinant proteins are becoming increasingly important for industrial applications, where
Escherichia coli is the most widely used bacterial host for their production. However, the …

Polymeric nanoparticle vaccines to combat emerging and pandemic threats

D Wibowo, SHT Jorritsma, ZJ Gonzaga, B Evert… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Subunit vaccines are more advantageous than live attenuated vaccines in terms of safety
and scale-up manufacture. However, this often comes as a trade-off to their efficacy. Over …

Unravelling cytosolic delivery of cell penetrating peptides with a quantitative endosomal escape assay

SLY Teo, JJ Rennick, D Yuen, H Al-Wassiti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cytosolic transport is an essential requirement but a major obstacle to efficient delivery of
therapeutic peptides, proteins and nucleic acids. Current understanding of cytosolic delivery …

PHEIGES: all-cell-free phage synthesis and selection from engineered genomes

A Levrier, I Karpathakis, B Nash, SD Bowden… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteriophages constitute an invaluable biological reservoir for biotechnology and
medicine. The ability to exploit such vast resources is hampered by the lack of methods to …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology as driver for the biologization of materials sciences

O Burgos-Morales, M Gueye, L Lacombe, C Nowak… - Materials Today Bio, 2021 - Elsevier
Materials in nature have fascinating properties that serve as a continuous source of
inspiration for materials scientists. Accordingly, bio-mimetic and bio-inspired approaches …

Polymeric epitope-based vaccine induces protective immunity against group A Streptococcus

S Chen, V Ozberk, G Sam, ZJC Gonzaga, A Calcutt… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Group A Streptococcus (Strep A) is a life-threatening human pathogen with no
licensed vaccine. Here, we used a biopolymer particle (BP) approach to display repeats of …

In situ expansion and reprogramming of Kupffer cells elicit potent tumoricidal immunity against liver metastasis

W Liu, X Zhou, Q Yao, C Chen, Q Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Liver metastasis represents one of the most frequent malignant diseases with no effective
treatment. Functional reprogramming of Kupffer cells (KCs), the largest population of hepatic …

Bacterial vesicles block viral replication in macrophages via TLR4-TRIF-axis

J Bierwagen, M Wiegand, K Laakmann… - Cell Communication and …, 2023 - Springer
Gram-negative bacteria naturally secrete nano-sized outer membrane vesicles (OMVs),
which are important mediators of communication and pathogenesis. OMV uptake by host …