• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.718-724
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• 2017

The combination of rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) with a vaccine is currently effective against rabies infections, but improvements are needed. Genetic engineering antibody technology is an attractive approach for developing novel antibodies to replace RIG. In our previous study, a single-chain variable fragment, scFv57R, against rabies virus glycoprotein was constructed. However, its inherent weak stability and short half-life compared with the parent RIG may limit its diagnostic and therapeutic application. Therefore, an acidic tail of synuclein (ATS) derived from the C-terminal acidic tail of human alpha-synuclein protein was fused to the C-terminus of scFv57R in order to help it resist adverse stress and improve the stability and half-life. The tail showed no apparent effect on the preparation procedure and affinity of the protein, nor did it change the neutralizing potency in vitro. In the ELISA test of molecular stability, the ATS fusion form of the protein, scFv57R-ATS, showed an increase in thermal stability and longer half-life in serum than scFv57R. The protection against fatal rabies virus challenge improved after fusing the tail to the scFv, which may be attributed to the improved stability. Thus, the ATS fusion approach presented here is easily implemented and can be used as a new strategy to improve the stability and half-life of engineered antibody proteins for practical applications.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.345-353
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• 2017

Plant expression systems have been developed to produce anti-cancer vaccines. Plants have several advantages as bioreactors for the production of subunit vaccines: they are considered safe, and may be used to produce recombinant proteins at low production cost. However, several technical issues hinder large-scale production of anti-cancer vaccines in plants. The present review covers design strategies to enhance the immunogenicity and therapeutic potency of anti-cancer vaccines, methods to increase vaccine-expressing plant biomass, and challenges facing the production of anti-cancer vaccines in plants. Specifically, the issues such as low expression levels and plant-specific glycosylation are described, along with their potential solutions.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2015

Vaccines are the most effective and cost-efficient method for preventing diseases caused by infectious pathogens. Despite the great success of vaccines, development of safe and strong vaccines is still required for emerging new pathogens, re-emerging old pathogens, and in order to improve the inadequate protection conferred by existing vaccines. One of the most important strategies for the development of effective new vaccines is the selection and usage of a suitable adjuvant. Immunologic adjuvants are essential for enhancing vaccine potency by improvement of the humoral and/or cell-mediated immune response to vaccine antigens. Thus, formulation of vaccines with appropriate adjuvants is an attractive approach towards eliciting protective and long-lasting immunity in humans. However, only a limited number of adjuvants is licensed for human vaccines due to concerns about safety and toxicity. We summarize current knowledge about the potential benefits of adjuvants, the characteristics of adjuvants and the mechanisms of adjuvants in human vaccines. Adjuvants have diverse modes of action and should be selected for use on the basis of the type of immune response that is desired for a particular vaccine. Better understanding of current adjuvants will help exploring new adjuvant formulations and facilitate rational design of vaccines against infectious diseases.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.269-274
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• 2016

The potency of influenza vaccine is determined based on its hemagglutinin (HA) content. In general, single radial immunodiffusion (SRID) assay has been utilized as the standard method to measure HA content. However, preparation of reagents for SRID such as antigen and antibody takes approximately 2~3 months, which causes delays in the development of influenza vaccine. Therefore, quantification of HA content by other alternative methods is required. In this study, we measured HA contents of H1N1 antigen and H1N1 influenza vaccine by reverse phase-high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) methods. The presence of HA1 and HA2 was investigated by silver staining and Western blot assay. In addition, accuracy and repeatability of HA measurement by RP-HPLC were evaluated. Comparison of HA concentration by SRID and RP-HPLC revealed a precise correlation between the two methods. Our results suggest that RP-HPLC assay can replace SRID in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak for rapid vaccine development.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.285-288
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• 2019

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) causes economic problems in livestock industry because of fast spread and inducing low productivity. FMD outbreaks occurred in South Korea over the period from 2000 to 2019. Vaccination is the most practical and effective means of controlling or preventing these outbreaks, and a national vaccination policy has been in place for all FMD-susceptible animals since 2010. To prevent and control of FMD, South Korea has been using vaccines imported from the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Russia. The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency of South Korea oversees continuous quality control of imported FMD vaccines. FMD vaccines were evaluated characteristics, sterility, pH, inactivation, safety, potency test by Korean FMD vaccine standard assay (Test for National Lot Release). The 6 company vaccines (A~F) were used Test for National Lot Release by each method. We evaluated quality of each FMD vaccine from 2015 to 2019. All batch of vaccine showed good quality control and were passed the Test for National Lot Release. The serotypes of vaccine are increasingly changing to multiple vaccine because the FMD was outbreak by various serotype virus in South Korea. Furthermore, this data may be useful as a basis for ensuring the quality of FMD vaccines and for base data to manage them. Additional study is required to simple approach for rapid evaluation of quality and antigen content identification in vaccines.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제42권12호
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• pp.869-883
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• 2019

Interleukin (IL)-15 is an essential immune-modulator with high potential for use in cancer treatment. Natural IL-15 has a low biological potency because of its short half-life and difficulties in mass-production. IL-15Rα, a member of the IL-15 receptor complex, is famous for its high affinity to IL-15 and its ability to lengthen the half-life of IL-15. We have double-transfected IL-15 and its truncated receptor IL-15Rα into CT26 colon cancer cells to target them for intracellular assembly. The secreted IL-15:IL-15Rα complexes were confirmed in ELISA and Co-IP experiments. IL-15:IL-15Rα secreting clones showed a higher anti-tumor effect than IL-15 secreting clones. Furthermore, we also evaluated the vaccine and therapeutic efficacy of the whole cancer-cell vaccine using mitomycin C (MMC)-treated IL-15:IL-15Rα secreting CT26 clones. Three sets of experiments were evaluated; (1) therapeutics, (2) vaccination, and (3) long-term protection. Wild-type CT26-bearing mice treated with a single dose of MMC-inactivated secreted IL-15:IL-15Rα clones prolonged survival compared to the control group. Survival of MMC-inactivated IL-15:IL-15Rα clone-vaccinated mice (without any further adjuvant) exceeded up to 100%. This protection effect even lasted for at least three months after the immunization. Secreted IL-15:IL-15Rα clones challenging trigger anti-tumor response via CD4⁺ T, CD8⁺ T, and natural killer (NK) cell-dependent cytotoxicity. Our result suggested that cell-based vaccine secreting IL-15:IL-15Rα, may offer the new tools for immunotherapy to treat cancer.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.248-254
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 디프테리아 toxin을 정제한 후 무독화하여 toxid를 생산하기 위하여 crude toxin을 2중 U.F를 통해 분자량 100.000이상의 단백질과 30.000이하의 배지 유래 단백질 및 색소를 제거한 결과 순도 1,300 Lf/mg PN의 toxin을 정제하였다. 이를 다시 DEAE-ion exehange chromatography를 통해 toxin을 정제한 후 무독화하여 순도 2,560 Lf/mg PN의 toxoid를 얻을 수 있었다. 이와 같이 생산된 디프테리아 toxoid는 동물 실험 결과 toxin으로 reversion이 발견되지 않았으며, 역가에 있어서도 crude toxin을 무독화한 후 정제한 toxoid와 비교하여 더 우수하였고 대한민국 생물학적 제제 기준에 규정된 성인용 디프테리아 백신 순도 기준 2,500 Lf/mg PN 이상에 적합하였다. 따라서 본 연구를 통해 성인용 디프테리아 백신의 생산 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2006

본 연구는 Streptococcus iniae 포르말린 불활화 백신을 냉장 보관한 후 보존 기간별로 넙치에 접종하여 면역 효능 및 안정성을 조사하였다. 그 결과 6, 12, 15개월 보존한 후에도 면역 효능의 감소가 확인되지 않아 백신으로서의 높은 안정성을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한, 1회 접종구에 비해 2회 접종구에서 높은 항체가가 유도되었으며 방어력도 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 특히, 1회 접종만으로도 낮은 항체가에도 불구하고 60% 이상의 방어 효과가 나타남에 따라 항체 이외의 세포성 면역이 방어력 형성에서 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 추정되었다.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 1973

For the preparation of non-infective vaccine against typhoid fever, the authors had carried out an investigation on the possibilities of using $^{60}Co\;{\gamma}$-ray irradiation for the inactivation of Salmonella typhi Ty 2. The following results were obtained. 1) Chicks shortly after hatching were higher susceptible than mice to intracerebral injection with S. typhi. 2) In safety test on experimental animal, $^{60}Co\;{\gamma}$-ray irradiated vaccines demonstrated no clinical symptom while the phenol treated vaccines revealed several cases of narcosis by intraperitoneal injection in chicks. 3) The rabbit antisera immunized with $^{60}Co\;{\gamma}$-ray irradiated and phenol treated vaccine revealed almost same agglutinin titers to each other. 4) In potency test in chicks, there was no significance in the protective capacity between $^{60}Co\;{\gamma}$-ray irradiated and phenol treated vaccines.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.572-576
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• 2010

수두 생바이러스 백신과 같은 생물의약품은 다양한 물질이 복합적으로 구성되어 있어 단순한 물리 화학적 분석방법만으로는 그 특성을 규명할 수 없다. 따라서 이러한 생물의 약품의 품질을 평가하기 위해서는 표준품이 필수적이다. 2002년과 2003년에 제조 및 확립한 1차 국가표준품의 재고량 소진 및 역가 감소에 따라 식품의약품안전평가원에서는 수두 생바이러스 백신의 2차 국가표준품을 확립하기 위하여 2008년 용역연구사업을 통해 국내의 수두 생바이러스 백신 제조회사에서 표준품 후보물질을 제조하였으며, 국가표준품 후보물질의 역가산정을 위하여 국내 제조사 및 식품의약품 안전평가원에서 공동연구를 수행하였다. 국내제조사를 포함한 3개의 공동연구 시험소에서 7회 이상의 반복시험을 수행하여 얻은 공동연구 결과를 통계학적으로 분석한 결과 3곳의 공동연구 시험소의 통합역가에 대한 변이계수 (coefficient variation, CV)는 1.24%로 각 시험소간의 기하평균 (GMT) 변동 수준이 매우 낮음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한, 수두 생바이러스 백신의 2차 국가표준품의 표시역가는 $4.26\;log_{10}\;PFU$/0.5 mL로 산정하였다.