COH04S1 and beta sequence-modified vaccine protect hamsters from SARS-CoV-2 variants

Autor: Felix Wussow, Mindy Kha, Katelyn Faircloth, Vu H. Nguyen, Angelina Iniguez, Joy Martinez, Yoonsuh Park, Jenny Nguyen, Swagata Kar, Hanne Andersen, Mark G. Lewis, Flavia Chiuppesi, Don J. Diamond
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: iScience, Vol 25, Iss 6, Pp 104457- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2589-0042
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104457
Popis: Summary: COVID-19 vaccine efficacy is threatened by emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) with the capacity to evade protective neutralizing antibody responses. We recently developed clinical vaccine candidate COH04S1, a synthetic modified vaccinia Ankara vector (sMVA) co-expressing spike and nucleocapsid antigens based on the Wuhan-Hu-1 reference strain that showed potent efficacy to protect against ancestral SARS-CoV-2 in Syrian hamsters and non-human primates and was safe and immunogenic in healthy volunteers. Here, we demonstrate that intramuscular immunization of Syrian hamsters with COH04S1 and an analogous Beta variant-adapted vaccine candidate (COH04S351) elicits potent cross-reactive antibody responses and protects against weight loss, lower respiratory tract infection, and lung pathology following challenge with major SARS-CoV-2 VOC, including Beta and the highly contagious Delta variant. These results demonstrate efficacy of COH04S1 and a variant-adapted vaccine analog to confer cross-protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its emerging VOC, supporting clinical investigation of these sMVA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
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