Taxonomic group: fungi / Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Basidiomycota)
Associated disease: infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans [ICD11:
XN3EH 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 36234967Publication DOI: 10.3390/molecules27196432Journal NLM ID: 100964009Publisher: Basel, Switzerland: MDPI
Correspondence: G. Srtefanetti <giuseppe.stefanetti
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Institutions: Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029 Urbino, Italy, Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 500 5th Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA, The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK, The Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK, GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health, 53100 Siena, Italy
Glycoconjugate vaccines have contributed enormously to reducing and controlling encapsulated bacterial infections for over thirty years. Glycoconjugate vaccines are based on a carbohydrate antigen that is covalently linked to a carrier protein; this is necessary to cause T cell responses for optimal immunogenicity, and to protect young children. Many interdependent parameters affect the immunogenicity of glycoconjugate vaccines, including the size of the saccharide antigen. Here, we examine and discuss the impact of glycan chain length on the efficacy of glycoconjugate vaccines and report the methods employed to size polysaccharide antigens, while highlighting the underlying reaction mechanisms. A better understanding of the impact of key parameters on the immunogenicity of glycoconjugates is critical to developing a new generation of highly effective vaccines.
glycoconjugates, vaccine, immunogenicity, fragmentation of polysaccharides, sugar length
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: Fig. 1(M), S. aureus 8 CPS
Trivial name: glucuronoxylomannan (GXM)
Compound class: CPS, EPS
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_114701,IEDB_115136,IEDB_115576,IEDB_130701,IEDB_140116,IEDB_140630,IEDB_144983,IEDB_145668,IEDB_152206,IEDB_164174,IEDB_167188,IEDB_174332,IEDB_2270799,IEDB_423153,IEDB_76933,IEDB_983930,SB_197,SB_44,SB_67,SB_72
Comments, role: review;
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 178876
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