(PDF) Vaccine Adjuvants – Methods and Protocols by Christopher B. Fox

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Table of Contents

1. Overview of Vaccine Adjuvants: Introduction, History, and Current Status

Ruchi R. Shah, Kimberly J. Hassett, and Luis A. Brito

2. Development of the CpG Adjuvant 1018: A Case Study

John D. Campbell

3. Syntheses of Human TLR8-Specific Small-Molecule Agonists

Mallesh Beesu, Hari Prasad Kokatla, and Sunil A. David

4. Semisynthesis of Analogues of the Saponin Immunoadjuvant QS-21

Alberto Fernández-Tejada, William E. Walkowicz, Derek S. Tan, and David Y. Gin

5. QS-21 Adjuvant: Laboratory-Scale Purification Method and Formulation into Liposomes

Livia Brunner, Christophe Barnier-Quer, and Nicolas Collin

6. Purification of an Immunoadjuvant Saponin Fraction from Quillaja brasiliensis Leaves by Reverse-Phase Silica Gel Chromatography

Anna C.A. Yendo, Fernanda de Costa, Carla Kauffmann, Juliane D. Fleck, Grace Gosmann, and Arthur G. Fett-Neto

7. Biosynthetic Approaches to Squalene Production: The Case of Yeast

Martin Valachovic and Ivan Hapala

8. In Silico Adjuvant Design and Validation

Matthew N. Davies, Helene Pere, Iris Bosschem, Freddy Haesebrouck, Bram Flahou, Eric Tartour, Darren R. Flower, David F. Tough, and Jagadeesh Bayry

9. <Manufacturing Methods for Liposome Adjuvants

Yvonne Perrie, Elisabeth Kastner, Swapnil Khadke, Carla B. Roces, and Peter Stone

10. Synthesis of Lymph Node-Targeting Adjuvants

Melissa C. Hanson and Darrell J. Irvine

11. Preparing an Adjuvanted Thermoresponsive Gel Formulation for Sublingual Vaccination

Manjari Lal, Jessica White, and Changcheng Zhu

12. Manufacture of Oil-in-Water Emulsion Adjuvants

Jean Haensler

13. Methods to Prepare Aluminum Salt-Adjuvanted Vaccines

Sachin G. Thakkar and Zhengrong Cui

14. Production of Adjuvant-Loaded Biodegradable Particles for Use in Cancer Vaccines

Cristina Maria de Barros, Emad Ibrahim Wafa, Khanidtha Chitphet, Kawther Ahmed, Sean M Geary, and Aliasger K. Salem

15. Lyophilization of Adjuvanted Vaccines: Methods for Formulation of a Thermostable Freeze Dried Product

Michelle Y. Chan, Timothy S. Dutill, and Ryan M. Kramer

16. Stressed Stability Techniques for Adjuvant Formulations

Manvi Hasija, Anthony Sheung, Nausheen Rahman, and Salvador F. Ausar

17. Particle Sizing of Nanoparticle Adjuvant Formulations by Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) and Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA)

Michelle Y. Chan, Quinton M. Dowling, Sandra J. Sivananthan, and Ryan M. Kramer

18. Quantification of Multiple Components of Complex Aluminum-Based Adjuvant Mixtures by Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Modeling

Quinton M. Dowling and Ryan M. Kramer
19. Determination of Protein Content in Alhydrogelâ-Based Vaccines by O-Phthalaldehyde Assay

Kelly M. Rausch and Daming Zhu

20. Staining and Transfer Techniques for SDS-PAGE Gels to Minimize Oil-in-Water Emulsion Adjuvant Interference

Alicia M. Schwartz, Michelle Y. Chan, Dawn M. Fedor, Sandra J. Sivananthan, and Ryan M. Kramer

21. Interactions Between Antigens and Nanoemulsion Adjuvants: Separation and Characterization Techniques

Michelle Y. Chan, Dawn M. Fedor, Tony Phan, Lucien Barnes V, and Ryan M. Kramer

22. Screening Vaccine Formulations in Fresh Human Whole Blood

Jalil Hakimi, Sepideh Aboutorabian, Frederick To, Salvador F. Ausar, Nausheen Rahman, and Roger H. Brookes

23. Analysis of the Innate Response to Adjuvants: Characterization of the Draining Lymph Node by Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting

Anthony L. Desbien
24. Assessment of Antigen-Specific Cellular Immunogenicity Using Intracellular Cytokine Staining, ELISpot, and Culture Supernatants

Elyse A. Beebe and Mark T. Orr

25. Eliciting Epitope-Specific CD8 T Cell Response by Immunization with Microbial Protein Antigens Formulated with a-Galactosylceramide: Theory, Practice, and Prools

Pavlo Gilchuk, Frances C. Knight, John T. Wilson, and Sebastian Joyce

26. Molecular Methods and Bioinformatic Tools for Adjuvant Characterization by High-Throughput Sequencing

Steven R. Wiley and Vanitha S. Raman