Erschienen in:
01.02.2006 | Review
DNA vaccines for cancer too
verfasst von:
Min Yu, Olivera J. Finn
Erschienen in:
Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
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Ausgabe 2/2006
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Excerpt
Vaccines based on DNA encoding the antigens, rather than antigenic proteins or peptides, is a recently developed approach that has the potential to elicit strong and long-lasting immunity while also having several practical advantages over other vaccines [
1]. DNA vaccines can be conveniently and cheaply produced and purified. They do not require special handling or storage conditions. Also, unlike viral vectors that can elicit immune responses to the vector proteins as well as to the immunizing DNA, naked DNA vaccines elicit immune responses only to the encoded antigen of interest. This allows their repeated use to boost immune responses without loosing immunogenicity by provoking an immune attack against the vector-encoded proteins [
2]. …