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| Sean P McBurneySummaryAffiliation: University of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Viral sequence diversity: challenges for AIDS vaccine designsSean P McBurney
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Research, Program in Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 7:1405-17. 2008..In this review, the state of vaccine development to address envelope diversity will be presented, focusing on the use of centralized and polyvalent sequence design as mechanisms to elicit broadly reactive immune responses...
Lentivirus-like particles without reverse transcriptase elicit efficient immune responsesSean P McBurney
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Curr HIV Res 4:475-84. 2006..Therefore, the lack of RT enhances the safety of these VLPs for use in future human clinical trials without a significant reduction in the overall immunogenicity of these VLP immunogens...
Membrane embedded HIV-1 envelope on the surface of a virus-like particle elicits broader immune responses than soluble envelopesSean P McBurney
Center for Vaccine Research for Emerging Diseases and Biodefense, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 9047 Biomedical Sciences Tower 3, 3501 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Virology 358:334-46. 2007..These lentiviral VLPs are effective mucosal immunogens that elicit broader immunity against Env determinants in both the systemic and mucosal immune compartments than soluble forms of Env...
Human immunodeficiency virus-like particles with consensus envelopes elicited broader cell-mediated peripheral and mucosal immune responses than polyvalent and monovalent Env vaccinesSean P McBurney
Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Vaccine 27:4337-49. 2009..This is the first study to directly compare the breadth of cell-mediated immune responses elicited by consensus and polyvalent Env vaccines...
Developing broadly reactive HIV-1/AIDS vaccines: a review of polyvalent and centralized HIV-1 vaccinesSean P McBurney
Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Curr Pharm Des 13:1957-64. 2007..This review will summarize the current uses of polyvalent and centralized vaccines to increase immune breadth that may determine future directions for HIV-1 vaccine development...
Virus-like particles: designing an effective AIDS vaccineKelly R Young
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15261, USA
Methods 40:98-117. 2006..A variety of VLPs for lentiviruses are currently in preclinical and clinical trials. This review focuses on our current status of VLP-based AIDS vaccines, regarding issues of purification and immune design for animal and clinical trials...
