Vaccine-mediated protection against merbecovirus and sarbecovirus challenge in mice

Autor: David R. Martinez, Alexandra Schaefer, Tyler D. Gavitt, Michael L. Mallory, Esther Lee, Nicholas J. Catanzaro, Haiyan Chen, Kendra Gully, Trevor Scobey, Pooja Korategere, Alecia Brown, Lena Smith, Rob Parks, Maggie Barr, Amanda Newman, Cindy Bowman, John M. Powers, Katayoun Mansouri, Robert J. Edwards, Ralph S. Baric, Barton F. Haynes, Kevin O. Saunders
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.22.540829
Popis: SUMMARYThe emergence of three distinct highly pathogenic human coronaviruses – SARS-CoV in 2003, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 – underlines the need to develop broadly active vaccines against theMerbecovirusandSarbecovirusbetacoronavirus subgenera. While SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are highly protective against severe COVID-19 disease, they do not protect against other sarbecoviruses or merbecoviruses. Here, we vaccinate mice with a trivalent sortase-conjugate nanoparticle (scNP) vaccine containing the SARS-CoV-2, RsSHC014, and MERS-CoV receptor binding domains (RBDs), which elicited live-virus neutralizing antibody responses and broad protection. Specifically, a monovalent SARS-CoV-2 RBD scNP vaccine only protected against sarbecovirus challenge, whereas the trivalent RBD scNP vaccine protected against both merbecovirus and sarbecovirus challenge in highly pathogenic and lethal mouse models. Moreover, the trivalent RBD scNP elicited serum neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 live viruses. Our findings show that a trivalent RBD nanoparticle vaccine displaying merbecovirus and sarbecovirus immunogens elicits immunity that broadly protects mice against disease. This study demonstrates proof-of-concept for a single pan-betacoronavirus vaccine to protect against three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses spanning two betacoronavirus subgenera.
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