@article{violo2023site,

title = {Site-Selective Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation at Single or Multiple Positions to Control Sugar-Protein Connectivity in Glycoconjugate Vaccine Candidates},

author = {Typhaine Violo and Annie Lambert and Aline Pillot and Mathieu Fanuel and Jessica Mac-Béar and Cédric Broussard and Cyrille Grandjean and Emilie Camberlein},

url = {https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/chem.202203497},

doi = {10.1002/chem.202203497},

isbn = {1521-3765},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-03-13},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Chemistry--A European Journal},

volume = {29},

number = {15},

pages = {e202203497},

publisher = {Wiley Online Library},

abstract = {In cellulo site-specific unnatural amino acid incorporation based on amber stop codon reassignment is a powerful tool to modify proteins at defined positions. This technique is herein applied to the selective functionalization of the Pneumococcal surface adhesin A protein at three distinct positions. Nϵ-propargyloxycarbonyl-l-lysine residues were incorporated and their alkyne groups reacted using click-chemistry with a synthetic azido-functionalized tetrasaccharide representative of one repeat unit of the Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 capsular polysaccharide. Anti-PsaA antibody response induced in mice by the trivalent glycoconjugate was determined in comparison with corresponding monovalent and randomly functionalized conjugates. Our results suggest that controlled was superior to random conjugation for preserving antigenicity. In definitive, the reported strategy offers a unique opportunity to study the impact of carbohydrate antigen-carrier protein connectivity on immunogenicity.},

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tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Pillot2019,

title = {Site-Specific Conjugation for Fully Controlled Glycoconjugate Vaccine Preparation},

author = {Aline Pillot and Alain Defontaine and Amina Fateh and Annie Lambert and Maruthi Prasanna and Mathieu Fanuel and Muriel Pipelier and Noemi Csaba and Typhaine Violo and Emilie Camberlein and Cyrille Grandjean},

doi = {10.3389/fchem.2019.00726},

issn = {22962646},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Frontiers in Chemistry},

volume = {7},

number = {November},

pages = {1--9},

abstract = {Glycoconjugate vaccines are formed by covalently link a carbohydrate antigen to a carrier protein whose role is to achieve a long lasting immune response directed against the carbohydrate antigen. The nature of the sugar antigen, its length, its ratio per carrier protein and the conjugation chemistry impact on both structure and the immune response of a glycoconjugate vaccine. In addition it has long been assumed that the sites at which the carbohydrate antigen is attached can also have an impact. These important issue can now be addressed owing to the development of novel chemoselective ligation reactions as well as techniques such as site-selective mutagenesis, glycoengineering, or extension of the genetic code. The preparation and characterization of homogeneous bivalent pneumococcal vaccines is reported. The preparation and characterization of homogeneous bivalent pneumococcal vaccines is reported. A synthetic tetrasaccharide representative of the serotype 14 capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae has been linked using the thiol/maleimide coupling chemistry to four different Pneumococcal surface adhesin A (PsaA) mutants, each harboring a single cysteine mutation at a defined position. Humoral response of these 1 to 1 carbohydrate antigen/PsaA conjugates have been assessed in mice. Our results showed that the carbohydrate antigen-PsaA connectivity impacts the anti-carrier response and raise questions about the design of glycoconjugate vaccine whereby the protein plays the dual role of immunogen and carrier.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}