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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
January 2025
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive success in modeling proteins. However, general-purpose "foundational" PLMs have limited performance in modeling antibodies due to the latter's hypervariable regions, which do not conform to the evolutionary conservation principles that such models rely on. In this study, we propose a transfer learning framework called Antibody Mutagenesis-Augmented Processing (AbMAP), which fine-tunes foundational models for antibody-sequence inputs by supervising on antibody structure and binding specificity examples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo live attenuated vaccines (LAVs), LMA and LMP, were evaluated alone or in combination with a trivalent adenoviral vector-based vaccine (Ad5-YFV) for their efficacy and immune responses in wild type (WT) and interferon gamma (IFNγ) knockout (KO) mice in a C57BL/6 background. While LMA and LMP are triple deletion mutants of CO92 strain, Ad5-YFV incorporates three protective plague immunogens. An impressive 80-100% protection was observed in all vaccinated animals against highly lethal intranasal challenge doses of parental CO92.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLimited protective immunologic responses to natural infection and a lack of knowledge about mechanisms of protection have hampered development of an effective vaccine. Recent studies in humans and mice have found meningococcal outer membrane vesicle-containing vaccines (OMV) induce cross species immune responses against gonococci and are associated with protection. The exact mechanisms or how humoral and cellular immunity are related to protection, remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Control Release
December 2024
School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou International Campus, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511442, China; National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China; Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China. Electronic address:
RNA-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have demonstrated promising protective immunity against the global COVID-19 epidemic. Enhancing the intensity and duration of mRNA antigen expression is anticipated to markedly boost antiviral immune responses. Self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) represents a next-generation platform for RNA-based vaccines, amplifying transcripts in situ to augment the expression of encoded immunogens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Virol
December 2024
Department of Pathogen Biology, Basic Medical College, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Norovirus (NoV) virus-like particles (VLPs) adjuvanted with aluminum hydroxide (Alum) are common vaccine candidates in clinical studies. Alum adjuvants usually inefficiently assist recombinant proteins to induce cellular immune responses. Thus, novel adjuvants are required to develop NoV vaccines that could induce both efficient humoral and robust cellular immune responses.
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