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Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods
Pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major bacterial disease responsible for many deaths worldwide each year and is particularly dangerous in children under 5 years old and adults over 50. The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) constitutes the outermost layer of the bacterial cell and is the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30370268 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00145 |
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description | Pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major bacterial disease responsible for many deaths worldwide each year and is particularly dangerous in children under 5 years old and adults over 50. The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) constitutes the outermost layer of the bacterial cell and is the main virulence factor. Regardless of whether pharmaceutical agents are composed of CPS alone or protein-conjugated CPS, CPS purification is essential for the development of vaccines against S. pneumoniae. These vaccines are effective and safe but remain quite expensive. This review describes the methods currently available for CPS purification. Advances in CPS purification methods are aimed at improvements in quality and yield and, above all, process simplification. |
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spelling | pubmed-61941952018-10-26 Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods Morais, Victor Dee, Valerie Suárez, Norma Front Bioeng Biotechnol Bioengineering and Biotechnology Pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major bacterial disease responsible for many deaths worldwide each year and is particularly dangerous in children under 5 years old and adults over 50. The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) constitutes the outermost layer of the bacterial cell and is the main virulence factor. Regardless of whether pharmaceutical agents are composed of CPS alone or protein-conjugated CPS, CPS purification is essential for the development of vaccines against S. pneumoniae. These vaccines are effective and safe but remain quite expensive. This review describes the methods currently available for CPS purification. Advances in CPS purification methods are aimed at improvements in quality and yield and, above all, process simplification. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6194195/ /pubmed/30370268 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00145 Text en Copyright © 2018 Morais, Dee and Suárez. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Bioengineering and Biotechnology Morais, Victor Dee, Valerie Suárez, Norma Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods |
title | Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods |
title_full | Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods |
title_fullStr | Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods |
title_full_unstemmed | Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods |
title_short | Purification of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Traditional and New Methods |
title_sort | purification of capsular polysaccharides of streptococcus pneumoniae: traditional and new methods |
topic | Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30370268 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00145 |
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