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  • American Society for Microbiology  (2)
  • 1
    In: Journal of Virology, American Society for Microbiology, Vol. 88, No. 20 ( 2014-10-15), p. 11802-11810
    Abstract: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading infectious cause of severe respiratory disease in infants and a major cause of respiratory illness in the elderly. There remains an unmet vaccine need despite decades of research. Insufficient potency, homogeneity, and stability of previous RSV fusion protein (F) subunit vaccine candidates have hampered vaccine development. RSV F and related parainfluenza virus (PIV) F proteins are cleaved by furin during intracellular maturation, producing disulfide-linked F1 and F2 fragments. During cell entry, the cleaved Fs rearrange from prefusion trimers to postfusion trimers. Using RSV F constructs with mutated furin cleavage sites, we isolated an uncleaved RSV F ectodomain that is predominantly monomeric and requires specific cleavage between F1 and F2 for self-association and rearrangement into stable postfusion trimers. The uncleaved RSV F monomer is folded and homogenous and displays at least two key RSV-neutralizing epitopes shared between the prefusion and postfusion conformations. Unlike the cleaved trimer, the uncleaved monomer binds the prefusion-specific monoclonal antibody D25 and human neutralizing immunoglobulins that do not bind to postfusion F. These observations suggest that the uncleaved RSV F monomer has a prefusion-like conformation and is a potential prefusion subunit vaccine candidate. IMPORTANCE RSV is the leading infectious cause of severe respiratory disease in infants and a major cause of respiratory illness in the elderly. Development of an RSV vaccine was stymied when a clinical trial using a formalin-inactivated RSV virus made disease, following RSV infection, more severe. Recent studies have defined the structures that the RSV F envelope glycoprotein adopts before and after virus entry (prefusion and postfusion conformations, respectively). Key neutralization epitopes of prefusion and postfusion RSV F have been identified, and a number of current vaccine development efforts are focused on generating easily produced subunit antigens that retain these epitopes. Here we show that a simple modification in the F ectodomain results in a homogeneous protein that retains critical prefusion neutralizing epitopes. These results improve our understanding of RSV F protein folding and structure and can guide further vaccine design efforts.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0022-538X , 1098-5514
    Language: English
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
    Publication Date: 2014
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    In: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, American Society for Microbiology, Vol. 66, No. 9 ( 2022-09-20)
    Abstract: Corrected QT duration (QTc) interval prolongation is the most frequent adverse event associated with bedaquiline (BDQ) use. It may affect the safety of antituberculosis therapy, which leads to the consequent demands of needing to monitor during therapy. Our objective was to establish and validate a prediction model for estimating the risk of QTc prolongation after initiation of BDQ-containing regimens to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients. We constructed an individualized nomogram model based on baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of each patient within a Chinese cohort during BDQ treatment. The generalizability of this model was further validated through use of externally acquired data obtained from Beijing Chest Hospital from 2019 to 2020. Overall, 1,215 and 165 patients were included in training and external validation cohorts, respectively, whereby during anti-TB drug treatment, QTc prolongation was observed in 273 (22.5%) and 29 (17.6%) patients within these respective cohorts, for whom QTc values were 〉 500 ms in 86 (31.5%) and 10 (34.7%) patients, respectively. Next, a total of four Cox proportional hazards models were created and assessed; then, nomograms derived from the models were plotted based on independent predictors of clofazimine, baseline QTc interval, creatinine, extensive drug-resistance (XDR), moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, and sex. Nomogram analysis revealed concordance index values of 0.723 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.695 to 0.750) for the training cohort and 0.710 (95% CI, 0.627 to 0.821) for the external validation cohort, thus indicating relatively fair agreement between predicted and observed probabilities of QTc prolongation occurrence based on data obtained during 8-week, 16-week, and 24-week anti-TB treatment of both cohorts. Taken together, results obtained using these models demonstrated that coadministration of clofazimine and abnormal baseline QTc interval significantly contributed to QTc prolongation development during MDR-TB patient treatment with a BDQ-containing anti-TB treatment regimen.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0066-4804 , 1098-6596
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    Language: English
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
    Publication Date: 2022
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    SSG: 15,3
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