Self-amplifying mRNA bicistronic influenza vaccines raise cross-reactive immune responses in mice and prevent infection in ferrets

Autor: Cheng Chang, Nedzad Music, Michael Cheung, Evan Rossignol, Sukhmani Bedi, Harsh Patel, Mohammad Safari, Changkeun Lee, Gillis R. Otten, Ethan C. Settembre, Giuseppe Palladino, Yingxia Wen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, Vol 27, Iss , Pp 195-205 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2329-0501
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2022.09.013
Popis: Vaccines are the primary intervention against influenza. Currently licensed inactivated vaccines focus immunity on viral hemagglutinin (HA). Self-amplifying mRNA (sa-mRNA) vaccines offer an opportunity to generate immunity to multiple viral proteins, including additional neuraminidase (NA). This evaluation of a bicistronic approach for sa-mRNA vaccine development compared subgenomic promoter and internal ribosome entry site strategies and found consistent and balanced expression of both HA and NA proteins in transfected cells. In mice, sa-mRNA bicistronic A/H5N1 vaccines raised potent anti-HA and anti-NA neutralizing antibody responses and HA- or NA-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses. The addition of NA also boosted the cross-neutralizing response to heterologous A/H1N1. Similar immunogenicity results were obtained for bicistronic seasonal A/H3N2 and B/Yamagata vaccines. In ferrets, sa-mRNA bicistronic A/H1N1 vaccine fully protected lung from infection by homologous virus and showed significant reduction of viral load in upper respiratory tract, warranting further evaluation of sa-mRNA bicistronic vaccine in humans.
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