High protection and transmission-blocking immunity elicited by single-cycle SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in hamsters.


Journal

NPJ vaccines
ISSN: 2059-0105
Titre abrégé: NPJ Vaccines
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101699863

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
30 Oct 2024
Historique:
received: 05 03 2024
accepted: 10 10 2024
medline: 30 10 2024
pubmed: 30 10 2024
entrez: 30 10 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Vaccines have played a central role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, but newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants are increasingly evading first-generation vaccine protection. To address this challenge, we designed "single-cycle infection SARS-CoV-2 viruses" (SCVs) that lack essential viral genes, possess distinctive immune-modulatory features, and exhibit an excellent safety profile in the Syrian hamster model. Animals intranasally vaccinated with an Envelope-gene-deleted vaccine candidate were fully protected against an autologous challenge with the SARS-CoV-2 virus through systemic and mucosal humoral immune responses. Additionally, the deletion of immune-downregulating viral genes in the vaccine construct prevented challenge virus transmission to contact animals. Moreover, vaccinated animals displayed neither tissue inflammation nor lung damage. Consequently, SCVs hold promising potential to induce potent protection against COVID-19, surpassing the immunity conferred by natural infection, as demonstrated in human immune cells.

Identifiants

pubmed: 39472701
doi: 10.1038/s41541-024-00992-z
pii: 10.1038/s41541-024-00992-z
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

206

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Martin Joseph Lett (MJ)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Fabian Otte (F)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

David Hauser (D)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Jacob Schön (J)

Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Enja Tatjana Kipfer (ET)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Donata Hoffmann (D)

Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Nico J Halwe (NJ)

Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Angele Breithaupt (A)

Department of Experimental Animal Facilities and Biorisk Management, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Lorenz Ulrich (L)

Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Tobias Britzke (T)

Department of Experimental Animal Facilities and Biorisk Management, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Jana Kochmann (J)

Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Björn Corleis (B)

Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Yuepeng Zhang (Y)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Lorena Urda (L)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Vladimir Cmiljanovic (V)

RocketVax AG, Basel, Switzerland.

Christopher Lang (C)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Martin Beer (M)

Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald - Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Germany.

Christian Mittelholzer (C)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
RocketVax AG, Basel, Switzerland.

Thomas Klimkait (T)

Molecular Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. thomas.klimkait@unibas.ch.

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