Protection against mouse and avian influenza A strains via vaccination with a combination of conserved proteins NP, M1 and NS1
Autor: | Irina I. Akopova, Oleg P. Zhirnov, Elena I. Isaeva, Petr O. Ilyinskii, Anatoly D. Altstein, Lyudmila M. Piskareva, T. E. Konakova, Alexander M. Shneider, Galini Thoidis, Alex Kartashov |
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Rok vydání: | 2007 |
Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Epidemiology viruses Biology Viral Nonstructural Proteins medicine.disease_cause Virus DNA vaccination Animal Diseases Birds Viral Matrix Proteins 03 medical and health sciences Mice Orthomyxoviridae Infections medicine Influenza A virus Vaccines DNA Animals 030304 developmental biology cross‐strain protection 0303 health sciences Viral matrix protein 030306 microbiology Immunogenicity Viral Core Proteins conserved proteins Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health virus diseases RNA-Binding Proteins Original Articles biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Nucleocapsid Proteins vaccination Virology Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 3. Good health Vaccination Infectious Diseases Immunization Influenza Vaccines Influenza in Birds influenza |
Zdroj: | Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses |
ISSN: | 1750-2659 |
Popis: | Background Experimental data accumulated over more than a decade indicate that cross-strain protection against influenza may be achieved by immunization with conserved influenza proteins. At the same time, the efficacy of immunization schemes designed along these lines and involving internal influenza proteins, mostly NP and M1, has not been sufficient. Objective To test the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of DNA vaccination with a combination of NP, M1 and NS1 genes of influenza virus. Methods The immunogenicity and protective efficacy of DNA vaccination with NP, M1 and NS1 was tested in mice and chickens. Mice were challenged with mouse-adapted viral strains H3N2 and H5N2 and chicken challenged with avian H5N3 virus. Results In these settings, wild-type NS1 did not impede the cellular and humoral response to NP/M1 immunization in vivo. Moreover, addition of NS1-encoding plasmid to the NP/M1 immunization protocol resulted in a significantly increased protective efficacy in vivo. Conclusions The addition of NS1 to an influenza immunization regimen based on conserved proteins bears promise. It is feasible that upon further genetic modification of these and additional conserved influenza proteins, providing for their higher safety, expression and immunogenicity, a recombinant vaccine based on several structural and non-structural proteins or their epitopes will offer broad anti-influenza protection in a wide range of species. |
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