Cong Sun, Yin-Feng Kang, Xin-Yan Fang, Yi-Na Liu, Guo-Long Bu, Ao-Jie Wang, Yan Li, Qian-Ying Zhu, Hua Zhang, Chu Xie, Xiang-Wei Kong, Yong-Jian Peng, Wen-Jie Lin, Ling Zhou, Xin-Chun Chen, Zheng-Zhou Lu, Hui-Qin Xu, Dong-Chun Hong, Xiao Zhang, Ling Zhong, Guo-Kai Feng, Yi-Xin Zeng, Miao Xu, Qian Zhong, Zheng Liu, Mu-Sheng Zeng
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a global public health concern, as it is known to cause multiple diseases while also being etiologically associated with a wide range of epithelial and lymphoid malignancies. Currently, there is no available prophylactic vaccine against EBV. gB is the EBV fusion protein that mediates viral membrane fusion and participates in host recognition, making it critical for EBV infection in both B cells and epithelial cells. Here, we present a gB nanoparticle, gB-I53-50 NP, that displays multiple copies of gB...
October 6, 2023: Cell Host & Microbe