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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

Recombinant vaccines

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

Subunit vaccines contain only specific protein from a pathogenic organism. For a virus, this protein is often the coat protein.

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

For subunit vaccine, a eukaryotic cloning host is always used because the recombinant proteins produced by bacteria are nonglycosylated, and glycosylation is necessary for the proteins to be immunologically active.

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

The first recombinant subunit vaccine approved for use in humans (against hepatitis B) was made in yeast.

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

DNA vaccines use the DNA of a pathogen to elicit an immune response.