Special Issue "Virus-Like Particles in Vaccine and Cancer Immunotherapy"

Dear Colloquies,

Virus-like particles (VLPs) are replication-incompetent vaccines that represent an intact, non-replicative virion lacking a genome but maintaining the original antigenic composition of the surface proteins incorporated into the virion’s outer membrane. VLPs have unique properties as particulate immunogens due to their size and pseudoviral structure, which may correctly present linear and conformational epitopes to the immune system to elicit both humoral and cellular immune responses.  Therefore, it is an attractive approach and has been widely used for infectious disease vaccines and for cancer immunotherapies.

This Special Issue focuses on “Virus-like Particles in Vaccine and Cancer Immunotherapy”.  Submissions of original articles, systematic reviews, short communications, and other types of articles on related topics are welcome. All manuscripts will follow standard journal peer-review practices, and those accepted for publication will appear in the issue “Virus-like Particles in Vaccine and Cancer Immunotherapy”. We look forward to receiving your contributions to the Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Qizhi Cathy Yao
Guest Editor

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