Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Development
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Attenuated/Inactivated/Live and Vectored Vaccines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 97
Special Issue Editor
Interests: protein production; virology; vaccine; virus-like particle; liposome; experimental evolution
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Viruses are now recognized as important resources for studying diseases and producing recombinant proteins. Virus-like particles (VLPs), which imitate viruses but do not possess genetic material, are a safe and powerful tool for vaccine development. There has already been some licensed VLP vaccines available in the commercial market against various infectious pathogens. While VLP subunit vaccines have succeeded, there are still challenges to overcome before the VLP surface display system can be widely employed as an effective vaccine strategy for many infectious diseases.
This Special Issue highlights how the leading researchers design, produce, and approve their VLP vaccines using diverse protein expression systems. We also share various perspectives and discuss the future of the VLP-based vaccine strategy.
Dr. Jian Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vaccine
- virus-like particle
- display
- protein production
- immunogenicity
