UNLABELLED Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract infection can result in inflammation and mucus plugging of airways. RSV strain A2-line19F induces relatively high viral load and mucus in mice. The line 19 fusion (F) protein harbors five unique residues compared to the non-mucus-inducing strains A2 and Long, at positions 79, 191, 357, 371, and 557. We hypothesized that ...

BACKGROUND Although therapeutic cancer vaccines have been mostly disappointing in the clinic, the advent of novel immunotherapies and the future promise of neoantigen-based therapies have created the need for new vaccine modalities that can easily adapt to current and future developments in cancer immunotherapy. One such novel platform is a DNA vaccine fusing the chemokine Macrophage Inflammato...

This study was conducted to optimize a fusion protein vaccine for translational development as against the human tropical parasitic infection, lymphatic filariasis (LF). The candidate, His-tagged r Bm HAXT developed previously in our laboratory and tested various animal models including mouse, gerbils Rhesus macaque where it exhibited significant levels of vaccine-induced protection. However, c...

BACKGROUND Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis causes systemic infection and chronic intestinal inflammation in many species including primates. Humans are exposed through milk and from sources of environmental contamination. Hitherto, the only vaccines available against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis have been limited to veterinary use and comprised attenuated or k...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Stress protein families and their immunological properties 3.1. Chaperoning properties 3.2. Peptide binding properties 3.3. Hsps interact with APCs 4. Immunogenicity of hsps 4.1. Tumor-derived hsp vaccines 4.2. Hsp-peptide based vaccines 4.3. Hsp-protein based vaccines 4.4. Hsp-based DNA vaccines 4.5. Hsp fusion protein vaccines 4.6. Cell-based vaccines 5. Improve...

OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a recombinant vaccine to attenuate inflammation in arthritis by sustained neutralization of the anaphylatoxin C5a. METHODS We constructed and expressed fusion protein of C5a and maltose binding protein. Efficacy of specific C5a neutralization was tested using the fusion protein as vaccine in three different arthritis mouse models: collagen induced arthritis ...

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) causes a devastating poultry disease worldwide. Frequent outbreaks of NDV in chickens vaccinated with conventional live vaccines suggest a need to develop new vaccines that are genetically matched against circulating NDV strains, such as the genotype V virulent strains currently circulating in Mexico and Central America. In this study, a reverse genetics system was...

BACKGROUND Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) pollinosis is the most prevalent seasonal rhinitis in Japan. A standardized Japanese cedar pollen extract (CPE) containing 1.5-4.2 μg of Cry j 1 is currently the highest-concentration extract available for allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) against this pollinosis. Therefore, we developed a PEGylated fusion protein as a more effective SIT vacc...