Cargando…
Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of technologies that allow a fast setup and production of biopharmaceuticals in emergency situations. The plant factory system can provide a fast response to epidemics/pandemics. Thanks to their scalability and genome plasticity, plants represen...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34579360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10091828 |
_version_ | 1784573352134836224 |
---|---|
author | Citiulo, Francesco Crosatti, Cristina Cattivelli, Luigi Biselli, Chiara |
author_facet | Citiulo, Francesco Crosatti, Cristina Cattivelli, Luigi Biselli, Chiara |
author_sort | Citiulo, Francesco |
collection | PubMed |
description | The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of technologies that allow a fast setup and production of biopharmaceuticals in emergency situations. The plant factory system can provide a fast response to epidemics/pandemics. Thanks to their scalability and genome plasticity, plants represent advantageous platforms to produce vaccines. Plant systems imply less complicated production processes and quality controls with respect to mammalian and bacterial cells. The expression of vaccines in plants is based on transient or stable transformation systems and the recent progresses in genome editing techniques, based on the CRISPR/Cas method, allow the manipulation of DNA in an efficient, fast, and easy way by introducing specific modifications in specific sites of a genome. Nonetheless, CRISPR/Cas is far away from being fully exploited for vaccine expression in plants. In this review, an overview of the potential conjugation of the renewed vaccine technologies (i.e., virus-like particles—VLPs, and industrialization of the production process) with genome editing to produce vaccines in plants is reported, illustrating the potential advantages in the standardization of the plant platforms, with the overtaking of constancy of large-scale production challenges, facilitating regulatory requirements and expediting the release and commercialization of the vaccine products of genome edited plants. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8467261 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | MDPI |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-84672612021-09-27 Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines Citiulo, Francesco Crosatti, Cristina Cattivelli, Luigi Biselli, Chiara Plants (Basel) Review The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of technologies that allow a fast setup and production of biopharmaceuticals in emergency situations. The plant factory system can provide a fast response to epidemics/pandemics. Thanks to their scalability and genome plasticity, plants represent advantageous platforms to produce vaccines. Plant systems imply less complicated production processes and quality controls with respect to mammalian and bacterial cells. The expression of vaccines in plants is based on transient or stable transformation systems and the recent progresses in genome editing techniques, based on the CRISPR/Cas method, allow the manipulation of DNA in an efficient, fast, and easy way by introducing specific modifications in specific sites of a genome. Nonetheless, CRISPR/Cas is far away from being fully exploited for vaccine expression in plants. In this review, an overview of the potential conjugation of the renewed vaccine technologies (i.e., virus-like particles—VLPs, and industrialization of the production process) with genome editing to produce vaccines in plants is reported, illustrating the potential advantages in the standardization of the plant platforms, with the overtaking of constancy of large-scale production challenges, facilitating regulatory requirements and expediting the release and commercialization of the vaccine products of genome edited plants. MDPI 2021-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8467261/ /pubmed/34579360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10091828 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Citiulo, Francesco Crosatti, Cristina Cattivelli, Luigi Biselli, Chiara Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines |
title | Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines |
title_full | Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines |
title_fullStr | Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines |
title_full_unstemmed | Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines |
title_short | Frontiers in the Standardization of the Plant Platform for High Scale Production of Vaccines |
title_sort | frontiers in the standardization of the plant platform for high scale production of vaccines |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34579360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10091828 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT citiulofrancesco frontiersinthestandardizationoftheplantplatformforhighscaleproductionofvaccines AT crosatticristina frontiersinthestandardizationoftheplantplatformforhighscaleproductionofvaccines AT cattivelliluigi frontiersinthestandardizationoftheplantplatformforhighscaleproductionofvaccines AT bisellichiara frontiersinthestandardizationoftheplantplatformforhighscaleproductionofvaccines |