Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Rational design of a multi-valent human papillomavirus vaccine by capsomere-hybrid co-assembly of virus-like particles

  • Daning Wang,
  • Xinlin Liu,
  • Minxi Wei,
  • Ciying Qian,
  • Shuo Song,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Zhiping Wang,
  • Qin Xu,
  • Yurou Yang,
  • Maozhou He,
  • Xin Chi,
  • Shiwen Huang,
  • Tingting Li,
  • Zhibo Kong,
  • Qingbing Zheng,
  • Hai Yu,
  • Yingbin Wang,
  • Qinjian Zhao,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Ningshao Xia,
  • Ying Gu,
  • Shaowei Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16639-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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An effective vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) needs to protect from several genotypes. Here, Wang et al. provide a strategy to produce single capsomere-hybrid virus-like particle (chVLP) composed of capsomers of different genotypes and show that a nona-type chVLP induces similar levels of neutralizing antibodies as an approved HPV vaccine.