Protection against dengue disease by synthetic nucleic acid antibody prophylaxis/immunotherapy.

ABSTRACT: Dengue virus (DENV) is the most important mosquito-borne viral infection in humans. In recent years, the number of cases and outbreaks has dramatically increased worldwide. While vaccines are being developed, none are currently available that provide balanced protection against all DENV serotypes. Advances in human antibody isolation have uncovered DENV neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) that are capable of preventing infection from multiple serotypes. Yet delivering monoclonal antibodies using conventional methods is impractical due to high costs. Engineering novel methods of delivering monoclonal antibodies could tip the scale in the fight against DENV. Here we demonstrate that simple intramuscular delivery by electroporation of synthetic DNA plasmids engineered to express modified human nAb

SUBMITTER: Flingai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4518257 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature