Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Rational design of a triple-type human papillomavirus vaccine by compromising viral-type specificity

  • Zhihai Li,
  • Shuo Song,
  • Maozhou He,
  • Daning Wang,
  • Jingjie Shi,
  • Xinlin Liu,
  • Yunbing Li,
  • Xin Chi,
  • Shuangping Wei,
  • Yurou Yang,
  • Zhiping Wang,
  • Jinjin Li,
  • Huilian Qian,
  • Hai Yu,
  • Qingbing Zheng,
  • Xiaodong Yan,
  • Qinjian Zhao,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Ying Gu,
  • Shaowei Li,
  • Ningshao Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07199-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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More than 18 human papillomaviruses (HPV) are associated with cervical cancer, and ideally vaccines should protect from all of them. Here, the authors engineer a triple-type, chimeric HPV vaccine, using loop swapping, that elicits robust neutralizing antibody titers in mice and non-human primates.