East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise

The mRNA vaccine platform should help research on East Coast fever subunit vaccines, but it remains unexplored. A theoretical strength of this platform, namely its capacity to prime cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses, is appealing as these, rather than antibodies, are the major mediators of immunity i...

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Autor principal: Nene, Vishvanath
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175623
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description The mRNA vaccine platform should help research on East Coast fever subunit vaccines, but it remains unexplored. A theoretical strength of this platform, namely its capacity to prime cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses, is appealing as these, rather than antibodies, are the major mediators of immunity induced by a live parasite-based vaccine. Here, I highlight knowledge on functionally relevant bovine adaptive cellular and antibody immune responses to <i>Theileria parva</i> and antigens targeted by them that could help to assess this vaccine platform, and in the design of a broad-spectrum subunit vaccine. The view that N-glycosylated parasite antigens may exist is unlikely as the pathogen does not encode genomic capacity to catalyze this post-translational modification.
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spelling CGSpace1756232025-10-26T12:56:46Z East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise Nene, Vishvanath east coast fever vaccines The mRNA vaccine platform should help research on East Coast fever subunit vaccines, but it remains unexplored. A theoretical strength of this platform, namely its capacity to prime cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses, is appealing as these, rather than antibodies, are the major mediators of immunity induced by a live parasite-based vaccine. Here, I highlight knowledge on functionally relevant bovine adaptive cellular and antibody immune responses to <i>Theileria parva</i> and antigens targeted by them that could help to assess this vaccine platform, and in the design of a broad-spectrum subunit vaccine. The view that N-glycosylated parasite antigens may exist is unlikely as the pathogen does not encode genomic capacity to catalyze this post-translational modification. 2025-08 2025-07-14T03:57:10Z 2025-07-14T03:57:10Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175623 en Limited Access Elsevier Nene, V. 2025. East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise. Trends in Parasitology 41(8): 620–627.
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East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise
title East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise
title_full East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise
title_fullStr East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise
title_full_unstemmed East Coast fever mRNA vaccines – sweetening the promise
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