Enhancing protein activity and stability via scaffold engineering
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Authors
Basore, Danielle Anna
Issue Date
2018-05
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Biochemistry and biophysics
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Abstract
In a similar vein, a chimeric VLP vaccine antigen has been designed to provide universal protection from the dengue virus. 350 million people are infected with this virus every year, and while a vaccine from Sanofi-Pasteur has just been approved, it does not offer complete and universal protection against all serotypes of the virus. We have proposed a construct composed of the fusion loop of the envelope protein of dengue virus, a highly conserved region of the protein known to stimulate a neutralizing antibody response.
Description
May 2018
School of Science
School of Science
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY