Novel Vaccine Approaches for Emerging RNA Viruses

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).

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Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine and Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Interests: Flaviviruses; Neuroinflammation; attenuated vaccines; RNA viruses

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Dear Colleagues,

Emerging RNA viruses continue to pose a unique threat to global human health. Since the turn of the century, we have witnessed new and on-going global pandemics due to influenza viruses, chikungyna virus, West Nile virus, Zika virus, dengue virus, SARS coronaviruses, and many more. With continued population growth and international connections, we need to focus on development of unique and novel vaccine approaches to address this ongoing global health problem. This special issue seeks manuscripts that evaluate new approaches to develop vaccine technology in the field of emerging RNA viruses. These approaches can include basic proof-of-concept approaches for vaccine development, novel adjuvant approaches, immunology of vaccine approaches, and translational efforts to evaluate immunogenicity and efficacy of a vaccine approach for emerging RNA viruses. We are particulary interested in manuscripts that evaluate novel platforms for rapid vaccine development. A continued and persistent effort to develop novel vaccine candidates and approaches for a variety of RNA viruses will provide an important pipeline of data as new RNA viruses emerge and threaten global human health in the future.   

Dr. David Beckham
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • RNA virus
  • vaccines
  • emerging viruses
  • immunogenicity

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Flavivirus NS1 and Its Potential in Vaccine Development
by Kassandra L. Carpio and Alan D. T. Barrett
Vaccines 2021, 9(6), 622; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060622 - 9 Jun 2021
Cited by 35 | Viewed by 5939
Abstract
The Flavivirus genus contains many important human pathogens, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis (JE), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), West Nile (WN), yellow fever (YF) and Zika (ZIK) viruses. While there are effective vaccines for a few flavivirus diseases (JE, TBE and YF), the majority do [...] Read more.
The Flavivirus genus contains many important human pathogens, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis (JE), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), West Nile (WN), yellow fever (YF) and Zika (ZIK) viruses. While there are effective vaccines for a few flavivirus diseases (JE, TBE and YF), the majority do not have vaccines, including WN and ZIK. The flavivirus nonstructural 1 (NS1) protein has an unusual structure–function because it is glycosylated and forms different structures to facilitate different roles intracellularly and extracellularly, including roles in the replication complex, assisting in virus assembly, and complement antagonism. It also plays a role in protective immunity through antibody-mediated cellular cytotoxicity, and anti-NS1 antibodies elicit passive protection in animal models against a virus challenge. Historically, NS1 has been used as a diagnostic marker for the flavivirus infection due to its complement fixing properties and specificity. Its role in disease pathogenesis, and the strong humoral immune response resulting from infection, makes NS1 an excellent target for inclusion in candidate flavivirus vaccines. Full article
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