Vaccine-enhancing plant extract could be mass produced in yeast

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Nett, Ryan
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-4287
• DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-01210-5
• 发表日期: 2024-05-23
• 页码: 760-761
• 关键词: adjuvants

摘要

The Chilean soapbark tree is the source of QS-21 - a valuable but hard-to-obtain vaccine additive. Yeast strains engineered to express all components of the QS-21 biosynthetic pathway provide an alternative route to this therapeutic.