Induction of a Protective Heterosubtypic Immune Response Against the Influenza Virus by using Recombinant Adenoviral Vectors Expressing Hemagglutinin of the Influenza H5 Virus.

Autor: Shmarov MM; Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences., Sedova ES, Verkhovskaya LV, Rudneva IA, Bogacheva EA, Barykova YA, Shcherbinin DN, Lysenko AA, Tutykhina IL, Logunov DY, Smirnov YA, Naroditsky BS, Gintsburg AL
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Acta naturae [Acta Naturae] 2010 Apr; Vol. 2 (1), pp. 111-8.
Abstrakt: Influenza viruses are characterized by a high degree of antigenic variability, which causes the annual emergence of flu epidemics and irregularly timed pandemics caused by viruses with new antigenic and biological traits. Novel approaches to vaccination can help circumvent this problem. One of these new methods incorporates genetic vaccines based on adenoviral vectors. Recombinant adenoviral vectors which contain hemagglutinin-encoding genes from avian H5N1 and H5N2 (Ad-HA5-1 and Ad-HA5-2) influenza viruses were obtained using the AdEasy Adenoviral Vector System (Stratagene). Laboratory mice received a double intranasal vaccination with Ad-HA5-1 and Ad-HA5-2. This study demonstrates that immunization with recombinant adenoviruses bearing the Н 5 influenza virus hemagglutinin gene induces a immune response which protects immunized mice from a lethal dose of the H5 influenza virus. Moreover, it also protects the host from a lethal dose of the H1 virus, which belongs to the same clade as H5, but does not confer protection from the subtype H3 influenza virus, which belongs to a different clade.
Databáze: MEDLINE