Production and purification of chimeric HBc virus-like particles carrying influenza virus LAH domain as vaccine candidates.
Andris KazaksI-Na LuSophie FarinelleAlex RamirezVincenzo CrescenteBenjamin BlahaOlotu OgonahTarit MukhopadhyayMapi Perez de ObanosAlejandro KrimerInara AkopjanaJanis BogansVelta OseAnna KirsteinaTatjana KazakaNicola J StonehouseDavid J RowlandsClaude P MullerKaspars TarsWilliam M RosenbergPublished in: BMC biotechnology (2017)
Our results indicate that the tandem core technology is a useful tool for incorporation of highly hydrophobic LAH domain into HBc VLPs. Chimeric VLPs can be successfully produced in bioreactor using yeast expression system. Immunologic data indicate that HBc VLPs carrying the LAH antigen represent a promising universal influenza vaccine component.