Hepatitis B virus core antigen as a carrier for virus-like partical vaccine: a review / 病毒学报
Chinese Journal of Virology
;
(6): 311-316, 2012.
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em Chinês
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ABSTRACT
Hepatitis B virus core antigen (HBcAg) is a major viral nucleocapsid protein of HBV. It is a 21-22kD protein consisting of 183-185 amino acids. Because of its easy purification, strong immunogenicity, high expression level, and self-assembles into the virus-like particles (VLP), HBcAg could be an efficient and safe VLP carrier for developing vaccines for various pathogens. Up to now, HBcAg VLP carrier has been an important system to develop novel vaccines and many antigen epitope genes from viruses, bacteria and parasites were expressed successfully using the system.
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Assunto principal:
Vacinas
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Expressão Gênica
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Vírus Defeituosos
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Alergia e Imunologia
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Genética
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Antígenos do Núcleo do Vírus da Hepatite B
Limite:
Animais
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Humanos
Idioma:
Chinês
Revista:
Chinese Journal of Virology
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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