Scientists in France and Germany have shown that a simplified version of an anthrax polysaccharide can be used as a potential vaccine against Bacillus anthracis. The disaccharide analogue of the anthrax tetrasaccharide is conjugated to bovine serum albumin, with the aim to obtain an antigen able to induce specific antibodies.
Link to journal article:
Organic: Potential new anthrax vaccine
Cyrille Grandjean, Ophélie Milhomme, Suzanne M Köhler, David Ropartz, David Lesur, Serge Pilard, Florence Djedaïni-Pilard and Wolfgang Beyer
Org. Biomol. Chem., Accepted Manuscript, 2012
DOI: 10.1039/c2ob26131f
