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The development of new oral vaccines using porous silica

Journal

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 34, Issue 26, Pages -

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ac6559

Keywords

oral vaccine; silica; SAXS; x-ray tomography; hepatitis B; diphtheria anatoxin

Funding

  1. CNPq, Brazil
  2. FAPESP, Brazil [2017/17844-80, 2018/19546-7]
  3. Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland, for beamtime at PolLux of SLS (German Minister fur Bildung und Forschung) [05KS4WE1/6, 05KS7WE1]
  4. [5132-00054B]

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Ordered mesoporous silica is an efficient oral adjuvant for delivering a variety of antigens. It has shown promising results in inducing immune response for different antigens without toxicity. Physics methods have been used to characterize the material and determine the ideal antigen load and release rate for developing proper oral vaccines.
Ordered mesoporous silica (OMS) was proved to be an efficient oral adjuvant capable to deliver a wide in size variety of different antigens, promoting efficient immunogenicity. This material can be used in single or polivalent vaccines, which have been developed by a group of Brazilian scientists. The experiments performed with the model protein Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) gave the first promissing results, that were also achieved by testing the virus like particle surface antigen of hepatitis B (HBsAg) and diphtheria anatoxin (dANA). Nanostructured OMS, SBA-15 type, with bi-dimensional hexagonal porous symmetry was used to encapsulate the antigens either in the mesoporous (pore diameter similar to 10 nm) or macroporous (pore diameter > 50 nm) regions. This silica vehicle proved to be capable to create an inflammatory response, did not exhibit toxicity, being effective to induce immunity in high and low responder mice towards antibody production. The silica particles are in the range of micrometer size, leaving no trace in mice organs due to its easy expulsion by faeces. The methods of physics, usually employed to characterize the structure, composition and morphology of materials are of fundamental importance to develop proper oral vaccines in order to state the ideal antigen load to avoid clustering and to determine the rate of antigen release in different media mimicking body fluids.

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