Department of Biology, Pharmaceutical Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
FAU NeW-Research Center New Bioactive Compounds, Erlangen, Germany.
Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2843:163-175. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4055-5_11.
Extracellular vesicles are nanosized lipid-bilayered spheres secreted from every living cell and they serve physiological and pathophysiological functions. Bacterial membrane vesicles are shed from both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and harbor many virulence factors, nuclear material, polysaccharides, proteins, and antigenic determinants, which are essential for immune recognition and evasion. Hence, bacterial membrane vesicles are very promising vaccine candidates. Spray drying is a well-established pharmaceutical technique to produce inhalable dry powders with enhanced stability for formulations of vaccines. In this chapter, we illustrate general guidelines for spray drying of bacterial extracellular vesicles to improve their stability without compromising their immunogenic protective effect. We discuss some of the most important experiments to characterize the generated spray-dried bacterial membrane vesicle powder vaccine.
细胞外囊泡是从每个活细胞分泌的纳米级脂质双层球体,它们具有生理和病理生理功能。细菌膜泡从革兰氏阴性和革兰氏阳性细菌中脱落,含有许多毒力因子、核材料、多糖、蛋白质和抗原决定簇,这些对于免疫识别和逃避至关重要。因此,细菌膜泡是很有前途的疫苗候选物。喷雾干燥是一种成熟的制药技术,可生产具有增强稳定性的可吸入干粉,适用于疫苗制剂。在本章中,我们说明了喷雾干燥细菌细胞外囊泡的一般指南,以提高其稳定性而不影响其免疫原性保护作用。我们讨论了一些最重要的实验,以表征所产生的喷雾干燥细菌膜泡粉末疫苗。