Publications by authors named "Stephanie Anguiano-Zarate"

causes nearly 500,000 infections and nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the U.S., which is estimated to cost $4.

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Most human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infections begin at mucosal surfaces. Providing a barrier of protection at these may assist in combating the earliest events in infection. Systemic immunization by intramuscular (i.

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HIV-1 infections occur during sexual contact at mucosal surfaces. Vaccines need to provide mucosal barrier protection and stimulate systemic immune responses to control HIV spread. Most vaccines are delivered by systemic immunization via intramuscular (IM) injection route.

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Recent West African Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemics have led to testing different anti-EBOV vaccines, including a replication-defective adenovirus (RD-Ad) vector (ChAd3-EBOV) and an infectious, replication-competent recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus expressing the EBOV glycoprotein (rVSV-EBOV; also known as rVSV-ZEBOV). While RD-Ads elicit protection, when scaled up to human trials, the level of protection may be much lower than that of vaccines containing viruses that can replicate. Although a replication-competent Ad (RC-Ad) vaccine might generate a level of protection approximating that of rVSV, this infectious vector would also risk causing adenovirus disease.

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We previously selected muscle binding peptides 12.51 and 12.52 from "context-specific" phage display libraries for introduction into adenovirus (Ad) vectors.

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Unlabelled: Head-to-head comparisons of conventional influenza vaccines with adenovirus (Ad) gene-based vaccines demonstrated that these viral vectors can mediate more potent protection against influenza virus infection in animal models. In most cases, Ad vaccines are engineered to be replication-defective (RD-Ad) vectors. In contrast, replication-competent Ad (RC-Ad) vaccines are markedly more potent but risk causing adenovirus diseases in vaccine recipients and health care workers.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study presents a collection of about 7,434 MiMIC insertions, with 2,854 located in coding introns, leading to the creation of a library with 400 GFP-tagged genes.
  • Results show that 72% of the internally tagged proteins are functional, and over 90% of them can be visualized in living tissues.
  • The methods developed allow for effective knocking down of tagged mRNAs and proteins, demonstrating significant manipulation capabilities in fruit flies, which may also be applicable to vertebrate studies.
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