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. 2021 Jun 4;105(12):4855–4878. doi: 10.1007/s00253-021-11331-w

Table 2.

An overview of vaccines produced using various yeast models

S. No Yeast model Virus Vaccine Reference
1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae Coxsackie virus

VLP

P1 and 3CD

Zhao et al. 2013

VLP

ChiEV-A71

Zhao et al. 2015
Dengue virus

PP

Envelope domain III (scEDIII)

Nguyen et al. 2013
Enterovirus 71

VLP

EV71 structural protein

Li et al. 2013

VLP

ChiEV-A71

Zhao et al. 2015
Hepatitis B virus

PP

Hepatitis B surface antigen

Jacobs et al. 1989

VLP

HBsAg

Pleckaityte et al. 2015
Hepatitis C virus

WRY

NS3-Core fusion protein

Haller et al. 2007
HIV-1

YSD

Envelope (Env) glycoprotein

Wang et al. 2018
Japanese encephalitis virus

YSD

Envelope protein (mannoprotein)

Upadhyaya and Manjunath 2009
New castle disease virus

PP

Hemagglutinin-neuraminidase

Khulape et al. 2015
Papillomavirus

PP

L1 protein

Park et al. 2008

VLP

Capsid proteins L1 or L1 plus L2

Lowe et al. 1997

PP

Recombinant capsid protein

Kim et al. 2014
Parvovirus B19

VLP

VP1 and VP2

Penkert et al. 2017
Polyoma virus

YCP

VP1, a major capsid protein

Tipper and Szomolanyi-Tsuda 2016
Porcine circovirus type 2

VLP

Capsid protein

Chen et al. 2018

Red-spotted grouper NNV

(RGNNV)/Nervous

necrosis

WRY

Capsid protein

Nguyet et al. 2013
2 Pichia pastoris Avian influenza virus

PP

Influenza A/H5N1 Neuraminidase

Yongkiettrakul et al. 2009
Avian leucosis virus

PP

ALV-J gp85 protein

Jing et al. 2018
Bursal disease virus (IBDV)

PP

VP2 gene of the Edgar strain of IBDV,

hypervariable region of the VP2 gene (hvVP2)

Villegas et al. 2008
Chikungunia virus

VLP

Structural polyprotein

Saraswat et al. 2016
Classical swine fever virus

PP

Glycoprotein E2

Cheng et al. 2014
Coxsackie virus A

VLP

P1 and 3CD proteins of CA6

Zhou et al. 2016

VLP

P1 and 3CD proteins of CA16

Zhang et al. 2016a
Dengue virus

VLP

Envelope Glycoprotein

Khetarpal et al. 2017

VLP

Envelope protein domain III (EDIII)

Ramasamy et al. 2018

VLP

Envelope protein (E1-E4)

Rajpoot et al. 2018
Hepatitis B virus

PP

Recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen

Hardy et al. 2000
Hepatitis C virus

PP

Core E1E2 protein

Fazlalipour et al. 2015

VLP

Core protein (HCcAg)

Acosta-Rivero et al. 2001
Human papillomavirus

VLP

L1 proteins (16L1 and 18L1)

Gupta et al. 2017

PP

HPV type 16 L1-L2

Chimeric SAF protein

Bredell et al. 2018
Influenza virus

PP

Hemagglutinin (HA) protein

Wang et al. 2019

YSD

Alpha agglutinin

Wasilenko et al. 2010

PP

H5 haemagglutinin

Pietrzak et al. 2016
Norovirus

VLP

recombinant capsid protein

Xia et al. 2007
SARS-CoV

PP

Recombinant receptor binding domain of Spike protein

Chen et al. 2020
SARS-CoV-2

PP

Recombinant receptor binding protein

Pollet et al. 2020
3 Hansenula polymorpha Bovine viral diarrhoea virus

VLP

Chimera of membrane integral small surface protein (dS) of the duck hepatitis B virus fused with E2-BVDV

Wetzel et al. 2018
Classical swine fever virus

VLP

Chimera of membrane integral small surface protein (dS) of the duck hepatitis B virus fused with E2-CFSV

Wetzel et al. 2018
Feline leukemia virus

VLP

Chimera of membrane integral small surface protein (dS) of the duck hepatitis B virus fused with FeLVenv

Wetzel et al. 2018
West nile virus

VLP

Chimera of membrane integral small surface protein (dS) of the duck hepatitis B virus fused with WNVE

Wetzel et al. 2018
Hepatitis B virus

PP

VrHB-IB

Caetano et al. 2017

PP

Recombinant HBsAg

Caetano et al. 2017
Human Papillomavirus

VLP

Type 52 L1 Protein

Liu et al. 2015
Porcine circovirus type 2b

VLP

NLS-deleted capsid protein (ΔCP)

Xiao et al. 2018
4 Schizosaccharomyces pombe Human papillomavirus type 6 & 16

VLP

Capsid protein

Sasagawa et al. 1995
5 Kluyveromyces marxianus Porcine circovirus type 2

VLP

Capsid protein

Duan et al. 2019
6 Yarrowia lipolytica Red spotted grouper Nervous necrosis virus

VLP

Capsid protein

Luu et al. 2017

The table lists various yeast models such as S. cerevisiae, P. pastoris, H. polymorpha, K. lactis, S. pombe extensively used for the expression and production of vaccines. PP purified protein, VLP virus-like particle, WRY whole recombinant yeast, YSD yeast surface display