Burkhard Peter, Lanar David E
a Institute of Materials, Science and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology , University of Connecticut , Storrs , CT 06269 , USA.
b Malaria Vaccine Branch , Walter Reed Army Institute of Research , Silver Spring , MD 20910 , USA.
Expert Rev Vaccines. 2015;14(12):1525-7. doi: 10.1586/14760584.2015.1096781. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
Despite recent progress with GSK's RTS,S malaria vaccine, there remains a desperate need for an efficient malaria vaccine. We have used a repetitive antigen display technology to display malaria specific B cell and T cell epitopes in an effort to design a vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Our protein sequence when assembled into a nanoparticle induces strong, long-lived and protective immune responses against infection with the parasite. We are confident that the clinical trials with our most developed vaccine candidate will show good protection in a controlled human malaria infection trial.
尽管葛兰素史克公司的RTS,S疟疾疫苗最近取得了进展,但仍然迫切需要一种高效的疟疾疫苗。我们使用了一种重复抗原展示技术来展示疟疾特异性B细胞和T细胞表位,以期设计一种针对恶性疟原虫疟疾的疫苗。我们的蛋白质序列组装成纳米颗粒后,能诱导针对该寄生虫感染产生强烈、持久且具有保护性的免疫反应。我们相信,对我们研发程度最高的候选疫苗进行的临床试验,将在受控人体疟疾感染试验中显示出良好的保护效果。