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Šimičić P, Batović M, Stojanović Marković A, Židovec-Lepej S. Deciphering the Role of Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Membrane Protein 1 in Immune Modulation: A Multifaced Signalling Perspective. Viruses 2024; 16:564. [PMID: 38675906 PMCID: PMC11054855 DOI: 10.3390/v16040564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
Abstract
The disruption of antiviral sensors and the evasion of immune defences by various tactics are hallmarks of EBV infection. One of the EBV latent gene products, LMP1, was shown to induce the activation of signalling pathways, such as NF-κB, MAPK (JNK, ERK1/2, p38), JAK/STAT and PI3K/Akt, via three subdomains of its C-terminal domain, regulating the expression of several cytokines responsible for modulation of the immune response and therefore promoting viral persistence. The aim of this review is to summarise the current knowledge on the EBV-mediated induction of immunomodulatory molecules by the activation of signal transduction pathways with a particular focus on LMP1-mediated mechanisms. A more detailed understanding of the cytokine biology molecular landscape in EBV infections could contribute to the more complete understanding of diseases associated with this virus.
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- Petra Šimičić
- Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Vinogradska cesta 29, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Hospital Infections, Dubrava University Hospital, Avenija Gojka Šuška 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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- Department of Immunological and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases “Dr. Fran Mihaljević”, Mirogojska 8, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Immunological and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases “Dr. Fran Mihaljević”, Mirogojska 8, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Rijnink WF, Stadlbauer D, Puente-Massaguer E, Okba NMA, Kirkpatrick Roubidoux E, Strohmeier S, Mudd PA, Schmitz A, Ellebedy A, McMahon M, Krammer F. Characterization of non-neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies that target the M1 and NP of influenza A viruses. J Virol 2023; 97:e0164622. [PMID: 37916834 PMCID: PMC10688359 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01646-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Currently, many groups are focusing on isolating both neutralizing and non-neutralizing antibodies to the mutation-prone hemagglutinin as a tool to treat or prevent influenza virus infection. Less is known about the level of protection induced by non-neutralizing antibodies that target conserved internal influenza virus proteins. Such non-neutralizing antibodies could provide an alternative pathway to induce broad cross-reactive protection against multiple influenza virus serotypes and subtypes by partially overcoming influenza virus escape mediated by antigenic drift and shift. Accordingly, more information about the level of protection and potential mechanism(s) of action of non-neutralizing antibodies targeting internal influenza virus proteins could be useful for the design of broadly protective and universal influenza virus vaccines.
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Center for Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness (C-VaRPP), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Center for Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness (C-VaRPP), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Center for Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness (C-VaRPP), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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de Brito RCF, Holtham K, Roser J, Saunders JE, Wezel Y, Henderson S, Mauch T, Sanz-Bernardo B, Frossard JP, Bernard M, Lean FZX, Nunez A, Gubbins S, Suárez NM, Davison AJ, Francis MJ, Huether M, Benchaoui H, Salt J, Fowler VL, Jarvis MA, Graham SP. An attenuated herpesvirus vectored vaccine candidate induces T-cell responses against highly conserved porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus M and NSP5 proteins that are unable to control infection. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1201973. [PMID: 37600784 PMCID: PMC10436000 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1201973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) remains a leading cause of economic loss in pig farming worldwide. Existing commercial vaccines, all based on modified live or inactivated PRRSV, fail to provide effective immunity against the highly diverse circulating strains of both PRRSV-1 and PRRSV-2. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop more effective and broadly active PRRSV vaccines. In the absence of neutralizing antibodies, T cells are thought to play a central role in controlling PRRSV infection. Herpesvirus-based vectors are novel vaccine platforms capable of inducing high levels of T cells against encoded heterologous antigens. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the immunogenicity and efficacy of an attenuated herpesvirus-based vector (bovine herpesvirus-4; BoHV-4) expressing a fusion protein comprising two well-characterized PRRSV-1 T-cell antigens (M and NSP5). Prime-boost immunization of pigs with BoHV-4 expressing the M and NSP5 fusion protein (vector designated BoHV-4-M-NSP5) induced strong IFN-γ responses, as assessed by ELISpot assays of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated with a pool of peptides representing PRRSV-1 M and NSP5. The responses were closely mirrored by spontaneous IFN-γ release from unstimulated cells, albeit at lower levels. A lower frequency of M and NSP5 specific IFN-γ responding cells was induced following a single dose of BoHV-4-M-NSP5 vector. Restimulation using M and NSP5 peptides from PRRSV-2 demonstrated a high level of cross-reactivity. Vaccination with BoHV-4-M-NSP5 did not affect viral loads in either the blood or lungs following challenge with the two heterologous PRRSV-1 strains. However, the BoHV-4-M-NSP5 prime-boost vaccination showed a marked trend toward reduced lung pathology following PRRSV-1 challenge. The limited effect of T cells on PRRSV-1 viral load was further examined by analyzing local and circulating T-cell responses using intracellular cytokine staining and proliferation assays. The results from this study suggest that vaccine-primed T-cell responses may have helped in the control of PRRSV-1 associated tissue damage, but had a minimal, if any, effect on controlling PRRSV-1 viral loads. Together, these results indicate that future efforts to develop effective PRRSV vaccines should focus on achieving a balanced T-cell and antibody response.
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- The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom
- Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- The Vaccine Group Ltd., Plymouth, United Kingdom
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- The Vaccine Group Ltd., Plymouth, United Kingdom
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- Pathology and Animal Sciences Department, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Addlestone, United Kingdom
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- Pathology and Animal Sciences Department, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Addlestone, United Kingdom
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- Pathology and Animal Sciences Department, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Addlestone, United Kingdom
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- MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- The Vaccine Group Ltd., Plymouth, United Kingdom
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- The Vaccine Group Ltd., Plymouth, United Kingdom
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
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Brunet de Courssou JB, Testard P, Sallansonnet-Froment M, Brechemier ML, Ricard D, Psimaras D, Ferrand M, Maillet T, Depierre P, Ohlmann C, Capron J, Arnulf I, Gales A. Narcolepsy secondary to anti-Ma2 encephalitis: two case reports. J Clin Sleep Med 2023; 19:837-841. [PMID: 36708258 PMCID: PMC10071386 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.10448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Recent studies suggest that sleep disorders are present in two-thirds of patients with autoimmune encephalitis. In anti-Ma2 encephalitis, hypersomnia appears to be frequent. However, only few cases of type 1 narcolepsy have been reported to date with anti-Ma2 encephalitis. We report 2 new cases of patients with narcolepsy secondary to anti-Ma2 encephalitis. Patient 1, a 68-year-old man, had narcolepsy type 1, including sleep attacks, cataplexy, abnormal Multiple Sleep Latency Tests and hypocretin-1 deficiency (< 50 ng/L) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), associated with a cerebellar syndrome. Anti-Ma2 antibodies were present in the serum and CSF and antivoltage-gated potassium channel antibodies in the serum. He benefited from a treatment with pitolisant. Patient 2, a 42-year-old man, had narcolepsy type 2, including hypersomnolence, no cataplexy, intermediate CSF levels of hypocretin-1 (138 ng/L), abnormal Multiple Sleep Latency Tests, and a limbic encephalitis presentation. Anti-Ma2 antibodies were present in the serum and CSF, and anti-Ma1 antibodies were in the CSF. For both, repeated polysomnographies were necessary to establish the precise diagnosis of central hypersomnia, emphasizing the importance of carrying out sleep investigations in a tertiary neurology center with sleep medicine expertise in patients with anti-Ma2 encephalitis. CITATION Brunet de Courssou J-B, Testard P, Sallansonnet-Froment M, et al. Narcolepsy secondary to anti-Ma2 encephalitis: two case reports. J Clin Sleep Med. 2023;19(4):837-841.
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- Sleep Disorders Unit, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Neurology Department, Hôpital d’Instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart, France
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- Neurology Department, Onco-Neurology Service, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Neurology Department, Hôpital Central - CHRU de Nancy, Nancy, France
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- Internal Medicine Department, Centre Hospitalier de Mâcon, Mâcon, France
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- Radiology Department, Hôpital d’Instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart, France
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- Neurology Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
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- Sleep Disorders Unit, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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- Sleep Disorders Unit, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2, an RNA coronavirus has impacted the health and economy of all the countries. The virus has wide host adaptability and causes severe diseases in humans and animals. The major structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2 include spike (S), envelop (E), membrane (M), and nucleocapsid (N). The current vaccines are based on the S protein. The emergence of variants of SARS-CoV-2 has renewed interest in the use of additional structural proteins for the development of diagnostics and vaccines. Knowledge of B cell epitopes and MHC-I binding regions of the structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2 is essential in the development of effective diagnostics and therapies. This chapter provides information on the epitopes of the structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2.
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- Sunil Thomas
- Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA, USA.
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Trimpert J, Herwig S, Stein J, Vladimirova D, Adler JM, Abdelgawad A, Firsching TC, Thoma T, Sehouli J, Osterrieder K, Gruber AD, Sawitzki B, Sander LE, Cichon G. Deciphering the Role of Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses in Different COVID-19 Vaccines-A Comparison of Vaccine Candidate Genes in Roborovski Dwarf Hamsters. Viruses 2021; 13:2290. [PMID: 34835096 PMCID: PMC8625836 DOI: 10.3390/v13112290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
With the exception of inactivated vaccines, all SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently used for clinical application focus on the spike envelope glycoprotein as a virus-specific antigen. Compared to other SARS-CoV-2 genes, mutations in the spike protein gene are more rapidly selected and spread within the population, which carries the risk of impairing the efficacy of spike-based vaccines. It is unclear to what extent the loss of neutralizing antibody epitopes can be compensated by cellular immune responses, and whether the use of other SARS-CoV-2 antigens might cause a more diverse immune response and better long-term protection, particularly in light of the continued evolution towards new SARS-CoV-2 variants. To address this question, we explored immunogenicity and protective effects of adenoviral vectors encoding either the full-length spike protein (S), the nucleocapsid protein (N), the receptor binding domain (RBD) or a hybrid construct of RBD and the membrane protein (M) in a highly susceptible COVID-19 hamster model. All adenoviral vaccines provided life-saving protection against SARS-CoV-2-infection. The most efficient protection was achieved after exposure to full-length spike. However, the nucleocapsid protein, which triggered a robust T-cell response but did not facilitate the formation of neutralizing antibodies, controlled early virus replication efficiently and prevented severe pneumonia. Although the full-length spike protein is an excellent target for vaccines, it does not appear to be the only option for future vaccine design.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/blood
- Antibodies, Viral/blood
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- COVID-19/immunology
- COVID-19/pathology
- COVID-19/prevention & control
- COVID-19/virology
- COVID-19 Vaccines/immunology
- Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins/genetics
- Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins/immunology
- Cricetinae
- Female
- Immunity, Cellular
- Immunity, Humoral
- Immunogenicity, Vaccine
- Inflammation
- Lung/pathology
- Lung/virology
- Male
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Phosphoproteins/genetics
- Phosphoproteins/immunology
- SARS-CoV-2/immunology
- SARS-CoV-2/physiology
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/chemistry
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/genetics
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/immunology
- Viral Matrix Proteins/genetics
- Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
- Mice
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Affiliation(s)
- Jakob Trimpert
- Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany; (J.T.); (D.V.); (J.M.A.); (A.A.)
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- Department of Gynecology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (S.H.); (J.S.)
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- Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (J.S.); (T.T.); (B.S.)
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- Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany; (J.T.); (D.V.); (J.M.A.); (A.A.)
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- Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany; (J.T.); (D.V.); (J.M.A.); (A.A.)
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- Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany; (J.T.); (D.V.); (J.M.A.); (A.A.)
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- Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany; (T.C.F.); (A.D.G.)
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- Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (J.S.); (T.T.); (B.S.)
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- Department of Gynecology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (S.H.); (J.S.)
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- Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong;
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- Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany; (T.C.F.); (A.D.G.)
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- Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (J.S.); (T.T.); (B.S.)
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany;
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- Department of Gynecology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (S.H.); (J.S.)
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Shu Q, Kenny T, Fan J, Lyon CJ, Cazares LH, Hu TY. Species-specific quantification of circulating ebolavirus burden using VP40-derived peptide variants. PLoS Pathog 2021; 17:e1010039. [PMID: 34748613 PMCID: PMC8601621 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Six ebolavirus species are reported to date, including human pathogens Bundibugyo virus (BDBV), Ebola virus (EBOV), Sudan virus (SUDV), and Taï Forest virus (TAFV); non-human pathogen Reston virus (RESTV); and the plausible Bombali virus (BOMV). Since there are differences in the disease severity caused by different species, species identification and viral burden quantification are critical for treating infected patients timely and effectively. Here we developed an immunoprecipitation-coupled mass spectrometry (IP-MS) assay for VP40 antigen detection and quantification. We carefully selected two regions of VP40, designated as peptide 8 and peptide12 from the protein sequence that showed minor variations among Ebolavirus species through MS analysis of tryptic peptides and antigenicity prediction based on available bioinformatic tools, and generated high-quality capture antibodies pan-specific for these variant peptides. We applied this assay to human plasma spiked with recombinant VP40 protein from EBOV, SUDV, and BDBV and virus-like particles (VLP), as well as EBOV infected NHP plasma. Sequence substitutions between EBOV and SUDV, the two species with highest lethality, produced affinity variations of 2.6-fold for p8 and 19-fold for p12. The proposed IP-MS assay differentiates four of the six known EBV species in one assay, through a combination of p8 and p12 data. The IP-MS assay limit of detection (LOD) using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) as signal readout was determined to be 28 ng/mL and 7 ng/mL for EBOV and SUDV respectively, equivalent to ~1.625-6.5×105 Geq/mL, and comparable to the LOD of lateral flow immunoassays currently used for Ebola surveillance. The two peptides of the IP-MS assay were also identified by their tandem MS spectra using a miniature MALDI-TOF MS instrument, greatly increasing the feasibility of high specificity assay in a decentralized laboratory.
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- Qingbo Shu
- Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Systems and Structural Biology Division, Protein Sciences Branch, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Systems and Structural Biology Division, Protein Sciences Branch, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Polyiam K, Phoolcharoen W, Butkhot N, Srisaowakarn C, Thitithanyanont A, Auewarakul P, Hoonsuwan T, Ruengjitchatchawalya M, Mekvichitsaeng P, Roshorm YM. Immunodominant linear B cell epitopes in the spike and membrane proteins of SARS-CoV-2 identified by immunoinformatics prediction and immunoassay. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20383. [PMID: 34650130 PMCID: PMC8516869 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99642-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 continues to infect an ever-expanding number of people, resulting in an increase in the number of deaths globally. With the emergence of new variants, there is a corresponding decrease in the currently available vaccine efficacy, highlighting the need for greater insights into the viral epitope profile for both vaccine design and assessment. In this study, three immunodominant linear B cell epitopes in the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) were identified by immunoinformatics prediction, and confirmed by ELISA with sera from Macaca fascicularis vaccinated with a SARS-CoV-2 RBD subunit vaccine. Further immunoinformatics analyses of these three epitopes gave rise to a method of linear B cell epitope prediction and selection. B cell epitopes in the spike (S), membrane (M), and envelope (E) proteins were subsequently predicted and confirmed using convalescent sera from COVID-19 infected patients. Immunodominant epitopes were identified in three regions of the S2 domain, one region at the S1/S2 cleavage site and one region at the C-terminus of the M protein. Epitope mapping revealed that most of the amino acid changes found in variants of concern are located within B cell epitopes in the NTD, RBD, and S1/S2 cleavage site. This work provides insights into B cell epitopes of SARS-CoV-2 as well as immunoinformatics methods for B cell epitope prediction, which will improve and enhance SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development against emergent variants.
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- Kanokporn Polyiam
- Division of Biotechnology, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Research Unit for Plant-Produced Pharmaceuticals and Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Division of Biotechnology, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- B.F. Feed Company Limited, Prachachuen Road, Thung Song Hong, Lak Si, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Division of Biotechnology, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Pilot Plant Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Division of Biotechnology, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Ishiguro N, Akutsu Y, Azuma K, Yonekawa M, Sato D, Ishizaka A, Tsuchida A, Nagano N, Kakuya F, Tame A, Yamanaka T, Morita K, Okamura A, Odagawa Y, Ishizu K, Yasoshima K, Kikuta H, Togashi T, Tohmoto T, Sakai N, Manabe A. Evaluation of a Novel Immunochromatographic Assay Using Monoclonal Antibodies against the Matrix Protein of Human Metapneumovirus. Clin Lab 2021; 67. [PMID: 34655208 DOI: 10.7754/clin.lab.2021.210232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of a novel immunochromatographic (IC) assay (APD1806) using monoclonal antibodies against the matrix (M) protein of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) for detection of hMPV from nasopharyngeal swab samples based on the results of real-time RT-PCR. METHODS Nasopharyngeal swab samples taken from 189 patients aged 0 - 5 years who were suspected of having respiratory tract infections associated with hMPV were used in this study. The samples were tested both by the IC assay and by real-time RT-PCR for detection of hMPV. RESULTS The sensitivity and specificity of the IC assay for detection of hMPV were 88.8% (95/107) and 92.7% (76/82), respectively. CONCLUSIONS The IC assay using monoclonal antibodies against the M protein of hMPV is an accurate and fast assay that is suitable as a diagnostic tool for hMPV infection. The optimal timing of the IC assay is 12 hours or more after the onset of fever due to hMPV infection.
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Heide J, Schulte S, Kohsar M, Brehm TT, Herrmann M, Karsten H, Marget M, Peine S, Johansson AM, Sette A, Lütgehetmann M, Kwok WW, Sidney J, Schulze zur Wiesch J. Broadly directed SARS-CoV-2-specific CD4+ T cell response includes frequently detected peptide specificities within the membrane and nucleoprotein in patients with acute and resolved COVID-19. PLoS Pathog 2021; 17:e1009842. [PMID: 34529740 PMCID: PMC8445433 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
The aim of this study was to define the breadth and specificity of dominant SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell epitopes using a comprehensive set of 135 overlapping 15-mer peptides covering the SARS-CoV-2 envelope (E), membrane (M) and nucleoprotein (N) in a cohort of 34 individuals with acute (n = 10) and resolved (n = 24) COVID-19. Following short-term virus-specific in vitro cultivation, the single peptide-specific CD4+ T cell response of each patient was screened using enzyme linked immuno spot assay (ELISpot) and confirmed by single-peptide intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) for interferon-γ (IFN-γ) production. 97% (n = 33) of patients elicited one or more N, M or E-specific CD4+ T cell responses and each patient targeted on average 21.7 (range 0-79) peptide specificities. Overall, we identified 10 N, M or E-specific peptides that showed a response frequency of more than 36% and five of them showed high binding affinity to multiple HLA class II binders in subsequent in vitro HLA binding assays. Three peptides elicited CD4+ T cell responses in more than 55% of all patients, namely Mem_P30 (aa146-160), Mem_P36 (aa176-190), both located within the M protein, and Ncl_P18 (aa86-100) located within the N protein. These peptides were further defined in terms of length and HLA restriction. Based on this epitope and restriction data we developed a novel DRB*11 tetramer (Mem_aa145-164) and examined the ex vivo phenotype of SARS-CoV-2-specific CD4+ T cells in one patient. This detailed characterization of single T cell peptide responses demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 infection universally primes a broad T cell response directed against multiple specificities located within the N, M and E structural protein.
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- Janna Heide
- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Department of Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Department of Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany
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Van den Hoecke S, Ballegeer M, Vrancken B, Deng L, Job ER, Roose K, Schepens B, Van Hoecke L, Lemey P, Saelens X. In Vivo Therapy with M2e-Specific IgG Selects for an Influenza A Virus Mutant with Delayed Matrix Protein 2 Expression. mBio 2021; 12:e0074521. [PMID: 34253060 PMCID: PMC8406285 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00745-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The ectodomain of matrix protein 2 (M2e) of influenza A viruses is a universal influenza A vaccine candidate. Here, we report potential evasion strategies of influenza A viruses under in vivo passive anti-M2e IgG immune selection pressure in severe combined immune-deficient (SCID) mice. A/Puerto Rico/8/34-infected SCID mice were treated with the M2e-specific mouse IgG monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) MAb 65 (IgG2a) or MAb 37 (IgG1), which recognize amino acids 5 to 15 in M2e, or with MAb 148 (IgG1), which binds to the invariant N terminus of M2e. Treatment of challenged SCID mice with any of these MAbs significantly prolonged survival compared to isotype control IgG treatment. Furthermore, M2e-specific IgG2a protected significantly better than IgG1, and even resulted in virus clearance in some of the SCID mice. Deep sequencing analysis of viral RNA isolated at different time points after treatment revealed that the sequence variation in M2e was limited to P10H/L and/or I11T in anti-M2e MAb-treated mice. Remarkably, in half of the samples isolated from moribund MAb 37-treated mice and in all MAb 148-treated mice, virus was isolated with a wild-type M2 sequence but with nonsynonymous mutations in the polymerases and/or the hemagglutinin genes. Some of these mutations were associated with delayed M2 and other viral gene expression and with increased resistance to anti-M2e MAb treatment of SCID mice. Treatment with M2e-specific MAbs thus selects for viruses with limited variation in M2e. Importantly, influenza A viruses may also undergo an alternative escape route by acquiring mutations that result in delayed wild-type M2 expression. IMPORTANCE Broadly protective influenza vaccine candidates may have a higher barrier to immune evasion compared to conventional influenza vaccines. We used Illumina MiSeq deep sequence analysis to study the mutational patterns in A/Puerto Rico/8/34 viruses that evolve in chronically infected SCID mice that were treated with different M2e-specific MAbs. We show that under these circumstances, viruses emerged in vivo with mutations in M2e that were limited to positions 10 and 11. Moreover, we discovered an alternative route for anti-M2e antibody immune escape, in which a virus is selected with wild-type M2e but with mutations in other gene segments that result in delayed M2 and other viral protein expression. Delayed expression of the viral antigen that is targeted by a protective antibody thus represents an influenza virus immune escape mechanism that does not involve epitope alterations.
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- Silvie Van den Hoecke
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
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- KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Mytle N, Leyrer S, Inglefield JR, Harris AM, Hickey TE, Minang J, Lu H, Ma Z, Andersen H, Grubaugh ND, Guina T, Skiadopoulos MH, Lacy MJ. Influenza Antigens NP and M2 Confer Cross Protection to BALB/c Mice against Lethal Challenge with H1N1, Pandemic H1N1 or H5N1 Influenza A Viruses. Viruses 2021; 13:1708. [PMID: 34578289 PMCID: PMC8473317 DOI: 10.3390/v13091708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Influenza hemagglutinin (HA) is considered a major protective antigen of seasonal influenza vaccine but antigenic drift of HA necessitates annual immunizations using new circulating HA versions. Low variation found within conserved non-HA influenza virus (INFV) antigens may maintain protection with less frequent immunizations. Conserved antigens of influenza A virus (INFV A) that can generate cross protection against multiple INFV strains were evaluated in BALB/c mice using modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA)-vectored vaccines that expressed INFV A antigens hemagglutinin (HA), matrix protein 1 (M1), nucleoprotein (NP), matrix protein 2 (M2), repeats of the external portion of M2 (M2e) or as tandem repeats (METR), and M2e with transmembrane region and cytoplasmic loop (M2eTML). Protection by combinations of non-HA antigens was equivalent to that of subtype-matched HA. Combinations of NP and forms of M2e generated serum antibody responses and protected mice against lethal INFV A challenge using PR8, pandemic H1N1 A/Mexico/4108/2009 (pH1N1) or H5N1 A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (H5N1) viruses, as demonstrated by reduced lung viral burden and protection against weight loss. The highest levels of protection were obtained with NP and M2e antigens delivered as MVA inserts, resulting in broadly protective immunity in mice and enhancement of previous natural immunity to INFV A.
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- Nutan Mytle
- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Nonnenwald 2, 82377 Penzberg, Germany
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 20814, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- Optimal Health Care, 11377 Robinwood Dr, Hagerstown, MD 21742, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
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- BIOQUAL, Inc., 12301 Parklawn Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, USA;
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Emergent BioSolutions, 300 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, USA; (N.M.); (S.L.); (J.R.I.); (A.M.H.); (T.E.H.); (J.M.); (H.L.); (Z.M.); (N.D.G.); (T.G.); (M.H.S.)
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Wang HI, Chuang ZS, Kao YT, Lin YL, Liang JJ, Liao CC, Liao CL, Lai MMC, Yu CY. Small Structural Proteins E and M Render the SARS-CoV-2 Pseudovirus More Infectious and Reveal the Phenotype of Natural Viral Variants. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22169087. [PMID: 34445789 PMCID: PMC8396568 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22169087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus is a commonly used strategy that mimics certain biological functions of the authentic virus by relying on biological legitimacy at the molecular level. Despite the fact that spike (S), envelope (E), and membrane (M) proteins together wrap up the SARS-CoV-2 virion, most of the reported pseudotype viruses consist of only the S protein. Here, we report that the presence of E and M increased the virion infectivity by promoting the S protein priming. The S, E, and M (SEM)-coated pseudovirion is spherical, containing crown-like spikes on the surface. Both S and SEM pseudoviruses packaged the same amounts of viral RNA, but the SEM virus bound more efficiently to cells stably expressing the viral receptor human angiotensin-converting enzyme II (hACE2) and became more infectious. Using this SEM pseudovirus, we examined the infectivity and antigenic properties of the natural SARS-CoV-2 variants. We showed that some variants have higher infectivity than the original virus and that some render the neutralizing plasma with lower potency. These studies thus revealed possible mechanisms of the dissemination advantage of these variants. Hence, the SEM pseudovirion provides a useful tool to evaluate the viral infectivity and capability of convalescent sera in neutralizing specific SARS-CoV-2 S dominant variants.
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- Hsin-I Wang
- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan; (H.-I.W.); (Z.-S.C.); (Y.-T.K.); (C.-L.L.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan; (H.-I.W.); (Z.-S.C.); (Y.-T.K.); (C.-L.L.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan; (H.-I.W.); (Z.-S.C.); (Y.-T.K.); (C.-L.L.)
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan; (Y.-L.L.); (J.-J.L.); (C.-C.L.)
- Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan; (Y.-L.L.); (J.-J.L.); (C.-C.L.)
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan; (Y.-L.L.); (J.-J.L.); (C.-C.L.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan; (H.-I.W.); (Z.-S.C.); (Y.-T.K.); (C.-L.L.)
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- Research Center for Emerging Viruses, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 404, Taiwan
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
- Correspondence: (M.M.C.L.); (C.-Y.Y.)
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan; (H.-I.W.); (Z.-S.C.); (Y.-T.K.); (C.-L.L.)
- Correspondence: (M.M.C.L.); (C.-Y.Y.)
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Choi KY, McGregor A. A Fully Protective Congenital CMV Vaccine Requires Neutralizing Antibodies to Viral Pentamer and gB Glycoprotein Complexes but a pp65 T-Cell Response Is Not Necessary. Viruses 2021; 13:v13081467. [PMID: 34452332 PMCID: PMC8402731 DOI: 10.3390/v13081467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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A vaccine against congenital cytomegalovirus infection is a high priority. Guinea pig cytomegalovirus (GPCMV) is the only congenital CMV small animal model. GPCMV encodes essential glycoprotein complexes for virus entry (gB, gH/gL/gO, gM/gN) including a pentamer complex (gH/gL/GP129/GP131/GP133 or PC) for endocytic cell entry. The cohorts for protection against congenital CMV are poorly defined. Neutralizing antibodies to the viral glycoprotein complexes are potentially more important than an immunodominant T-cell response to the pp65 protein. In GPCMV, GP83 (pp65 homolog) is an evasion factor, and the GP83 mutant GPCMV has increased sensitivity to type I interferon. Although GP83 induces a cell-mediated response, a GP83-only-based vaccine strategy has limited efficacy. GPCMV attenuation via GP83 null deletion mutant in glycoprotein PC positive or negative virus was evaluated as live-attenuated vaccine strains (GP83dPC+/PC-). Vaccinated animals induced antibodies to viral glycoprotein complexes, and PC+ vaccinated animals had sterilizing immunity against wtGPCMV challenge. In a pre-conception vaccine (GP83dPC+) study, dams challenged mid-2nd trimester with wtGPCMV had complete protection against congenital CMV infection without detectable virus in pups. An unvaccinated control group had 80% pup transmission rate. Overall, gB and PC antibodies are key for protection against congenital CMV infection, but a response to pp65 is not strictly necessary.
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Wang Y, Li S, Dong C, Ma Y, Song Y, Zhu W, Kim J, Deng L, Denning TL, Kang SM, Prausnitz MR, Wang BZ. Skin vaccination with dissolvable microneedle patches incorporating influenza neuraminidase and flagellin protein nanoparticles induces broad immune protection against multiple influenza viruses. ACS Appl Bio Mater 2021; 4:4953-4961. [PMID: 34179728 PMCID: PMC8232372 DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.1c00240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We generated self-adjuvanted protein nanoparticles of conserved influenza antigens and immunized mice via skin vaccination with dissolvable microneedle patches (MNPs) to increase the strength and breadth of immune responses. We produced M2e nanoparticles via ethanol desolvation, and double-layered NA1/M2e (shell/core), NA1-FliC/M2e, NA2/M2e, and NA2-FliC/M2e protein nanoparticles by chemically crosslinking influenza NA and flagellin (FliC) onto the surfaces of the M2e nanoparticles. The resulting nanoparticles retained FliC TLR5 innate signaling activity and significantly increased antigen-uptake and dendritic cell maturation in vitro. We incorporated the nanoparticles into MNPs for skin vaccination in mice. The nanoparticle MNPs significantly increased M2e and NA-specific antibody levels, the numbers of germinal center B cells, and IL-4 positive splenocytes. Double-layered nanoparticle MNP skin vaccination protected mice against homologous and heterosubtypic influenza viruses. Our results demonstrated that MNP skin vaccination of NA-FliC/M2e nanoparticles could be developed into a standalone or synergistic component of a universal influenza vaccine strategy.
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- Ye Wang
- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 100 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA
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Kim J, Bu W, Mine S, Tariq Z, Nguyen H, Wang Y, Tolman C, Mond J, Cohen JI. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) hyperimmune globulin isolated from donors with high gp350 antibody titers protect humanized mice from challenge with EBV. Virology 2021; 561:80-86. [PMID: 34171765 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2021.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Primary infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease and severe disease in patients with X-linked lymphoproliferative disease; no therapies are approved to prevent EBV infection in these patients. Hyperimmune globulin has been used to prevent some virus infections in immunocompromised persons. Here, we identified plasma donors with high titers of EBV gp350 and EBV B cell neutralizing antibodies. Pooled IgG isolated from these donors was compared to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) for its ability to reduce viral load in the blood in humanized mice challenged with EBV. Mice that received EBV hyperimmune globulin had significantly reduced EBV DNA copy numbers compared to animals that received saline control; however, while animals that received EBV hyperimmune globulin had lower EBV DNA copies than those that received IVIG, the difference was not significant. Thus, while EBV hyperimmune globulin reduced viral load compared to IVIG, the effect was modest.
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- JungHyun Kim
- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA; Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20740, USA
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- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Clinical Services Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA
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- ADMA Biologics, Boca Raton, FL, 33487, USA
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- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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Sui L, Zhao Y, Wang W, Wu P, Wang Z, Yu Y, Hou Z, Tan G, Liu Q. SARS-CoV-2 Membrane Protein Inhibits Type I Interferon Production Through Ubiquitin-Mediated Degradation of TBK1. Front Immunol 2021; 12:662989. [PMID: 34084167 PMCID: PMC8168463 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.662989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative pathogen of current COVID-19 pandemic, and insufficient production of type I interferon (IFN-I) is associated with the severe forms of the disease. Membrane (M) protein of SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to suppress host IFN-I production, but the underlying mechanism is not completely understood. In this study, SARS-CoV-2 M protein was confirmed to suppress the expression of IFNβ and interferon-stimulated genes induced by RIG-I, MDA5, IKKϵ, and TBK1, and to inhibit IRF3 phosphorylation and dimerization caused by TBK1. SARS-CoV-2 M could interact with MDA5, TRAF3, IKKϵ, and TBK1, and induce TBK1 degradation via K48-linked ubiquitination. The reduced TBK1 further impaired the formation of TRAF3-TANK-TBK1-IKKε complex that leads to inhibition of IFN-I production. Our study revealed a novel mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 M for negative regulation of IFN-I production, which would provide deeper insight into the innate immunosuppression and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2.
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- Liyan Sui
- Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Disease, Institute of Translational Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Disease, Institute of Translational Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- College of Basic Medical Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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- Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Disease, Institute of Translational Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Hospital of Stomatology, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Translational Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Disease, Institute of Translational Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
- School of Life Sciences and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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Ding P, Zhang G, Chen Y, Liu H, Liu Y, Jia R, Wang Y, Li G, Wang A. Reasonable permutation of M2e enhances the effect of universal influenza nanovaccine. Int J Biol Macromol 2021; 173:244-250. [PMID: 33485888 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.01.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2020] [Revised: 10/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Influenza A virus (IAV) occasionally cross-species transmission among humans, swine and avian. The ectodomain of matrix protein 2 (M2e) is highly conserved in IAV, and multi-copy M2e from different species are usually displayed on the surface of nanoparticles to improve immunogenicity and constitute universal IAV nanovaccines. In our previous study, three M2e were inserted into the C-terminal of Cap protein of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) to form a universal nanovaccine that provides protection against PCV2 and different subtypes of IAV. However, M2e adopts at least two converted conformations, and the intermolecular linker of M2e enhances the conformational instability, which limits the recognition by B cell receptors and production of high-level antibodies. Here, we report that the permutation of M2e affects effectiveness of nanovaccines. Three M2e derived from humans, swine and avian IAV were inserted into the C-terminal of Cap protein to form nanovaccines. Immunoprotective effects of different M2e arrangements were explored in mice. Results showed that the M2e closest to the surface of nanoparticle induced the most efficient protection against IAV derived from corresponding species. The results will contribute to develop more effective PCV2 and universal IAV bivalent nanovaccines for pigs, as well as species-specific universal IAV vaccines.
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- Peiyang Ding
- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; Henan Zhongze Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; Henan Zhongze Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Henan Zhongze Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Henan Zhongze Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; Henan Zhongze Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Henan Zhongze Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
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Lee SY, Ko DH, Son MJ, Kim JA, Jung K, Kim YS. Affinity Maturation of a T-Cell Receptor-Like Antibody Specific for a Cytomegalovirus pp65-Derived Peptide Presented by HLA-A*02:01. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22052349. [PMID: 33652936 PMCID: PMC7956451 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22052349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is widespread among adults (60–90%) and is usually undetected in healthy individuals without symptoms but can cause severe diseases in immunocompromised hosts. T-cell receptor (TCR)-like antibodies (Abs), which recognize complex antigens (peptide–MHC complex, pMHC) composed of MHC molecules with embedded short peptides derived from intracellular proteins, including pathogenic viral proteins, can serve as diagnostic and/or therapeutic agents. In this study, we aimed to engineer a TCR-like Ab specific for pMHC comprising a CMV pp65 protein-derived peptide (495NLVPMVATV503; hereafter, CMVpp65495-503) in complex with MHC-I molecule human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*02:01 (CMVpp65495-503/HLA-A*02:01) to increase affinity by sequential mutagenesis of complementarity-determining regions using yeast surface display technology. Compared with the parental Ab, the final generated Ab (C1-17) showed ~67-fold enhanced binding affinity (KD ≈ 5.2 nM) for the soluble pMHC, thereby detecting the cell surface-displayed CMVpp65495-503/HLA-A*02:01 complex with high sensitivity and exquisite specificity. Thus, the new high-affinity TCR-like Ab may be used for the detection and treatment of CMV infection.
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- Se-Young Lee
- Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (S.-Y.L.); (D.-H.K.); (M.-J.S.); (J.-A.K.)
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- Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (S.-Y.L.); (D.-H.K.); (M.-J.S.); (J.-A.K.)
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- Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (S.-Y.L.); (D.-H.K.); (M.-J.S.); (J.-A.K.)
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- Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (S.-Y.L.); (D.-H.K.); (M.-J.S.); (J.-A.K.)
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- Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Korea;
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- Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (S.-Y.L.); (D.-H.K.); (M.-J.S.); (J.-A.K.)
- Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Korea;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-31-219-2662; Fax: +82-31-219-1610
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Lehmann AA, Zhang T, Reche PA, Lehmann PV. Discordance Between the Predicted Versus the Actually Recognized CD8+ T Cell Epitopes of HCMV pp65 Antigen and Aleatory Epitope Dominance. Front Immunol 2021; 11:618428. [PMID: 33633736 PMCID: PMC7900545 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.618428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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CD8+ T cell immune monitoring aims at measuring the size and functions of antigen-specific CD8+ T cell populations, thereby providing insights into cell-mediated immunity operational in a test subject. The selection of peptides for ex vivo CD8+ T cell detection is critical because within a complex antigen exists a multitude of potential epitopes that can be presented by HLA class I molecules. Further complicating this task, there is HLA class I polygenism and polymorphism which predisposes CD8+ T cell responses towards individualized epitope recognition profiles. In this study, we compare the actual CD8+ T cell recognition of a well-characterized model antigen, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) pp65 protein, with its anticipated epitope coverage. Due to the abundance of experimentally defined HLA-A*02:01-restricted pp65 epitopes, and because in silico epitope predictions are most advanced for HLA-A*02:01, we elected to focus on subjects expressing this allele. In each test subject, every possible CD8+ T cell epitope was systematically covered testing 553 individual peptides that walk the sequence of pp65 in steps of single amino acids. Highly individualized CD8+ T cell response profiles with aleatory epitope recognition patterns were observed. No correlation was found between epitopes' ranking on the prediction scale and their actual immune dominance. Collectively, these data suggest that accurate CD8+ T cell immune monitoring may necessitate reliance on agnostic mega peptide pools, or brute force mapping, rather than electing individual peptides as representative epitopes for tetramer and other multimer labeling of surface antigen receptors.
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- Alexander A. Lehmann
- Research and Development, Cellular Technology Ltd., Shaker Heights, OH, United States
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- Research and Development, Cellular Technology Ltd., Shaker Heights, OH, United States
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- Laboratorio de Inmunomedicina & Inmunoinformatica, Departamento de Immunologia & O2, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Research and Development, Cellular Technology Ltd., Shaker Heights, OH, United States
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Munroe ME, Anderson JR, Gross TF, Stunz LL, Bishop GA, James JA. Epstein-Barr Functional Mimicry: Pathogenicity of Oncogenic Latent Membrane Protein-1 in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Autoimmunity. Front Immunol 2021; 11:606936. [PMID: 33613527 PMCID: PMC7886997 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.606936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other autoimmune diseases are propelled by immune dysregulation and pathogenic, disease-specific autoantibodies. Autoimmunity against the lupus autoantigen Sm is associated with cross-reactivity to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1). Additionally, EBV latent membrane protein-1 (LMP1), initially noted for its oncogenic activity, is an aberrantly active functional mimic of the B cell co-stimulatory molecule CD40. Mice expressing a transgene (Tg) for the mCD40-LMP1 hybrid molecule (containing the cytoplasmic tail of LMP1) have mild autoantibody production and other features of immune dysregulation by 2-3 months of age, but no overt autoimmune disease. This study evaluates whether exposure to the EBV molecular mimic, EBNA-1, stimulates antigen-specific and concurrently-reactive humoral and cellular immunity, as well as lupus-like features. After immunization with EBNA-1, mCD40-LMP1 Tg mice exhibited enhanced, antigen-specific, cellular and humoral responses compared to immunized WT congenic mice. EBNA-1 specific proliferative and inflammatory cytokine responses, including IL-17 and IFN-γ, were significantly increased (p<0.0001) in mCD40-LMP1 Tg mice, as well as antibody responses to amino- and carboxy-domains of EBNA-1. Of particular interest was the ability of mCD40-LMP1 to drive EBNA-1 associated molecular mimicry with the lupus-associated autoantigen, Sm. EBNA-1 immunized mCD40-LMP1 Tg mice exhibited enhanced proliferative and cytokine cellular responses (p<0.0001) to the EBNA-1 homologous epitope PPPGRRP and the Sm B/B' cross-reactive sequence PPPGMRPP. When immunized with the SLE autoantigen Sm, mCD40-LMP1 Tg mice again exhibited enhanced cellular and humoral immune responses to both Sm and EBNA-1. Cellular immune dysregulation with EBNA-1 immunization in mCD40-LMP1 Tg mice was accompanied by enhanced splenomegaly, increased serum blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine levels, and elevated anti-dsDNA and antinuclear antibody (ANA) levels (p<0.0001 compared to mCD40 WT mice). However, no evidence of immune-complex glomerulonephritis pathology was noted, suggesting that a combination of EBV and genetic factors may be required to drive lupus-associated renal disease. These data support that the expression of LMP1 in the context of EBNA-1 may interact to increase immune dysregulation that leads to pathogenic, autoantigen-specific lupus inflammation.
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- Melissa E. Munroe
- Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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- Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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- Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
- Department of Medicine and Pathology, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
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Wong NA, Saier MH. The SARS-Coronavirus Infection Cycle: A Survey of Viral Membrane Proteins, Their Functional Interactions and Pathogenesis. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:1308. [PMID: 33525632 PMCID: PMC7865831 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22031308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel epidemic strain of Betacoronavirus that is responsible for the current viral pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a global health crisis. Other epidemic Betacoronaviruses include the 2003 SARS-CoV-1 and the 2009 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the genomes of which, particularly that of SARS-CoV-1, are similar to that of the 2019 SARS-CoV-2. In this extensive review, we document the most recent information on Coronavirus proteins, with emphasis on the membrane proteins in the Coronaviridae family. We include information on their structures, functions, and participation in pathogenesis. While the shared proteins among the different coronaviruses may vary in structure and function, they all seem to be multifunctional, a common theme interconnecting these viruses. Many transmembrane proteins encoded within the SARS-CoV-2 genome play important roles in the infection cycle while others have functions yet to be understood. We compare the various structural and nonstructural proteins within the Coronaviridae family to elucidate potential overlaps and parallels in function, focusing primarily on the transmembrane proteins and their influences on host membrane arrangements, secretory pathways, cellular growth inhibition, cell death and immune responses during the viral replication cycle. We also offer bioinformatic analyses of potential viroporin activities of the membrane proteins and their sequence similarities to the Envelope (E) protein. In the last major part of the review, we discuss complement, stimulation of inflammation, and immune evasion/suppression that leads to CoV-derived severe disease and mortality. The overall pathogenesis and disease progression of CoVs is put into perspective by indicating several stages in the resulting infection process in which both host and antiviral therapies could be targeted to block the viral cycle. Lastly, we discuss the development of adaptive immunity against various structural proteins, indicating specific vulnerable regions in the proteins. We discuss current CoV vaccine development approaches with purified proteins, attenuated viruses and DNA vaccines.
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- Nicholas A. Wong
- Department of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA
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Kostolanský F, Tomčíková K, Briestenská K, Mikušová M, Varečková E. Universal anti-influenza vaccines based on viral HA2 and M2e antigens. Acta Virol 2020; 64:417-426. [PMID: 33151738 DOI: 10.4149/av_2020_408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Aquatic birds are the main reservoir of influenza A viruses (IAVs). These viruses can infect humans repeatedly and cause acute respiratory disease with potential of spread in the form of epidemics. In addition, avian influenza viruses that overcome the interspecies barrier and adapt to humans can cause a world-wide pandemic with severe consequences to human health. Therefore, scientists are focused on the development of a "universal" vaccine with a broad protective efficacy, i.e. against different subtypes of influenza A viruses and not only against the currently co-circulating human epidemic strains. Nowadays, several new vaccine design strategies have been described. Most of them utilize the conserved stem part of influenza surface glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA) or the ectodomain of M2 (M2e) protein with proton-channel activity. A comparison of the efficacy of novel vaccines and their protective mechanisms against influenza infection is discussed in this review and should be considered for the construction of the most effective broadly protective vaccine with minimal side effects. This is the essential goal in influenza virus research today, especially when the infection with new human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can interfere with the course of influenza virus infection. Keywords: influenza A virus; HA2 gp; M2 ectodomain; universal vaccine.
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Hwang SU, Lee JH, Choi SY, Lee YT, Park SY, Lee HS, Jae JW, Jung NC, Wang Y, Lim DS. A simple and efficient method of generating HCMV pp65-specific T cells using overlapping peptides. Acta Virol 2020; 64:470-479. [PMID: 33151741 DOI: 10.4149/av_2020_414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The methods for expansion of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-specific T lymphocytes are limited due to the complex culture process, long culture duration, and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) restriction. Here, we report that in vitro stimulation with pp65 kDa phosphoprotein (pp65)-derived overlapping synthetic peptides rapidly generates large numbers of HCMV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) regardless of HLA type. Treatment of PBMCs from healthy volunteers expressing HLA-A*02:01 or HLA-A*24:02 with 138 pp65 overlapping peptides (OLP) resulted in an expansion of HCMV pp65 NLVPMVATV (NLV) pentamer-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes that expressed interferon (IFN)-γ, but the pp65 NLV peptide did not generate HCMV-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes in PBMCs obtained from an HLA-A*24:02 donor due to HLA restriction. The OLP-induced T lymphocytes specific for HCMV derived from PBMCs of HLA-A*02:01- and HLA-A*24:02-expressing donors showed effective cytolytic responses against target cells loaded with OLP or the NLV epitope, but pp65 NLV peptide-induced T lymphocytes did not. Phenotypic analyses demonstrated that OLP increased the frequency of CD3+ CD8+ cells, but not CD3+ CD4+, CD14+, or CD56+ cells, in donor PBMCs. Thus, this study provides evidence that in vitro stimulation with OLP efficiently generates sufficient numbers of HCMV pp65-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes for adoptive cell therapy. Keywords: human cytomegalovirus; cytotoxic T lymphocyte; overlapping peptides; pp65; cytotoxicity.
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DeMers HL, He S, Pandit SG, Hannah EE, Zhang Z, Yan F, Green HR, Reyes DF, Hau D, McLarty ME, Altamura L, Taylor-Howell C, Gates-Hollingsworth MA, Qiu X, AuCoin DP. Development of an antigen detection assay for early point-of-care diagnosis of Zaire ebolavirus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2020; 14:e0008817. [PMID: 33141837 PMCID: PMC7608863 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The 2013–2016 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa and the ongoing cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have spurred development of a number of medical countermeasures, including rapid Ebola diagnostic tests. The likelihood of transmission increases as the disease progresses due to increasing viral load and potential for contact with others. Early diagnosis of EBOV is essential for halting spread of the disease. Polymerase chain reaction assays are the gold standard for diagnosing Ebola virus disease (EVD), however, they rely on infrastructure and trained personnel that are not available in most resource-limited settings. Rapid diagnostic tests that are capable of detecting virus with reliable sensitivity need to be made available for use in austere environments where laboratory testing is not feasible. The goal of this study was to produce candidate lateral flow immunoassay (LFI) prototypes specific to the EBOV glycoprotein and viral matrix protein, both targets known to be present during EVD. The LFI platform utilizes antibody-based technology to capture and detect targets and is well suited to the needs of EVD diagnosis as it can be performed at the point-of-care, requires no cold chain, provides results in less than twenty minutes and is low cost. Monoclonal antibodies were isolated, characterized and evaluated in the LFI platform. Top performing LFI prototypes were selected, further optimized and confirmed for sensitivity with cultured live EBOV and clinical samples from infected non-human primates. Comparison with a commercially available EBOV rapid diagnostic test that received emergency use approval demonstrates that the glycoprotein-specific LFI developed as a part of this study has improved sensitivity. The outcome of this work presents a diagnostic prototype with the potential to enable earlier diagnosis of EVD in clinical settings and provide healthcare workers with a vital tool for reducing the spread of disease during an outbreak. Ebola virus (EBOV) causes a severe hemorrhagic fever and has an extremely high fatality rate that ranges from 60%-90%. There is no approved treatment or vaccine for this infectious disease and halting spread of the virus relies on identifying and isolating infected patients quickly. The current gold standard, polymerase chain reaction assay, requires patient samples be transported to regional reference laboratories where it often takes days to get results. A handful of Ebola rapid diagnostic tests have been developed, but lack the sensitivity required to detect the virus in earlier stages of the disease. There is great need for more sensitive rapid diagnostic tests that can identify the EBOV infected patients when they first become symptomatic. This study focused on production of high affinity mAbs to two target EBOV proteins for development of a more sensitivity rapid diagnostic test. Efforts have resulted in production of prototype detecting the EBOV glycoprotein that shows a notable improvement in sensitivity and offers the potential for earlier diagnosis of infection.
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- Haley L. DeMers
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Diagnostic Systems Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America
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- Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- * E-mail: (XQ); (DPA)
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America
- * E-mail: (XQ); (DPA)
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BACKGROUND In order to obtain antibodies that recognize natural proteins, it is possible to predict the antigenic determinants of natural proteins, which are eventually embodied as polypeptides. The polypeptides can be coupled with corresponding vectors to stimulate the immune system to produce corresponding antibodies, which is also a simple and effective vaccine development method. The discovery of epitopes is helpful to the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. METHODS The analyses were related to epitopes on 3 proteins, including spike (S), envelope (E) and membrane (M) proteins, which are located on the lipid envelope of the SARS-CoV-2. Based on the NCBI Reference Sequence: NC_045512.2, the conformational and linear B cell epitopes of the surface protein were predicted separately by various prediction methods. Furthermore, the conservation of the epitopes, the adaptability and other evolutionary characteristics were also analyzed, the sequences of the whole genome of SARS-CoV-2 were obtained from the GISAID. RESULTS 7 epitopes were predicted, including 6 linear epitopes and 1 conformational epitope. One of the linear and one of the conformational consist of identical sequence, but represent different forms of epitopes. It is worth mentioning that all 6 identified epitopes were conserved in nearly 3500 SARS-CoV-2 genomes, showing that it is helpful to obtain stable and long-acting epitopes under the condition of high frequency of amino acid mutation, which deserved further study at the experiment level. CONCLUSION The findings would facilitate the vaccine development, had the potential to be directly applied on the prevention in this disease, but also have the potential to prevent the possible threats caused by other types of coronavirus.
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- Jerome Rumdon Lon
- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
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Khairkhah N, Aghasadeghi MR, Namvar A, Bolhassani A. Design of novel multiepitope constructs-based peptide vaccine against the structural S, N and M proteins of human COVID-19 using immunoinformatics analysis. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0240577. [PMID: 33057358 PMCID: PMC7561160 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control (China CDC) has been identified as a novel Betacoronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). A computational approach was adopted to identify multiepitope vaccine candidates against SARS-CoV-2 based on S, N and M proteins being able to elicit both humoral and cellular immune responses. In this study, the sequence of the virus was obtained from NCBI database and analyzed with in silico tools such as NetMHCpan, IEDB, BepiPred, NetCTL, Tap transport/proteasomal cleavage, Pa3P, GalexyPepDock, I-TASSER, Ellipro and ClusPro. To identify the most immunodominant regions, after analysis of population coverage and epitope conservancy, we proposed three different constructs based on linear B-cell, CTL and HTL epitopes. The 3D structure of constructs was assessed to find discontinuous B-cell epitopes. Among CTL predicted epitopes, S257-265, S603-611 and S360-368, and among HTL predicted epitopes, N167-181, S313-330 and S1110-1126 had better MHC binding rank. We found one putative CTL epitope, S360-368 related to receptor-binding domain (RBD) region for S protein. The predicted epitopes were non-allergen and showed a high quality of proteasomal cleavage and Tap transport efficiency and 100% conservancy within four different clades of SARS-CoV-2. For CTL and HTL epitopes, the highest population coverage of the world's population was calculated for S27-37 with 86.27% and for S196-231, S303-323, S313-330, S1009-1030 and N328-349 with 90.33%, respectively. We identified overall 10 discontinuous B-cell epitopes for three multiepitope constructs. All three constructs showed strong interactions with TLRs 2, 3 and 4 supporting the hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility to TLRs 2, 3 and 4 like other Coronaviridae families. These data demonstrated that the novel designed multiepitope constructs can contribute to develop SARS-CoV-2 peptide vaccine candidates. The in vivo studies are underway using several vaccination strategies.
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- Niloofar Khairkhah
- Department of Hepatitis, AIDS and Blood-borne diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
- Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Hepatitis, AIDS and Blood-borne diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Zykova AA, Blokhina EA, Kotlyarov RY, Stepanova LA, Tsybalova LM, Kuprianov VV, Ravin NV. Highly Immunogenic Nanoparticles Based on a Fusion Protein Comprising the M2e of Influenza A Virus and a Lipopeptide. Viruses 2020; 12:E1133. [PMID: 33036278 PMCID: PMC7601894 DOI: 10.3390/v12101133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Revised: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The highly conserved extracellular domain of the transmembrane protein M2 (M2e) of the influenza A virus is a promising target for the development of broad-spectrum vaccines. However, M2e is a poor immunogen by itself and must be linked to an appropriate carrier to induce an efficient immune response. In this study, we obtained recombinant mosaic proteins containing tandem copies of M2e fused to a lipopeptide from Neisseria meningitidis surface lipoprotein Ag473 and alpha-helical linkers and analyzed their immunogenicity. Six fusion proteins, comprising four or eight tandem copies of M2e flanked by alpha-helical linkers, lipopeptides, or a combination of both of these elements, were produced in Escherichia coli. The proteins, containing both alpha-helical linkers and lipopeptides at each side of M2e repeats, formed nanosized particles, but no particulate structures were observed in the absence of lipopeptides. Animal study results showed that proteins with lipopeptides induced strong M2e-specific antibody responses in the absence of external adjuvants compared to similar proteins without lipopeptides. Thus, the recombinant M2e-based proteins containing alpha-helical linkers and N. meningitidis lipopeptide sequences at the N- and C-termini of four or eight tandem copies of M2e peptide are promising vaccine candidates.
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- Anna A. Zykova
- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.Z.); (E.A.B.); (R.Y.K.)
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.Z.); (E.A.B.); (R.Y.K.)
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.Z.); (E.A.B.); (R.Y.K.)
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- Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 23805 St. Petersburg, Russia; (L.A.S.); (L.M.T.)
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- Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 23805 St. Petersburg, Russia; (L.A.S.); (L.M.T.)
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.Z.); (E.A.B.); (R.Y.K.)
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.Z.); (E.A.B.); (R.Y.K.)
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Tahir Ul Qamar M, Shahid F, Aslam S, Ashfaq UA, Aslam S, Fatima I, Fareed MM, Zohaib A, Chen LL. Reverse vaccinology assisted designing of multiepitope-based subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Infect Dis Poverty 2020; 9:132. [PMID: 32938504 PMCID: PMC7492789 DOI: 10.1186/s40249-020-00752-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) linked with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cause severe illness and life-threatening pneumonia in humans. The current COVID-19 pandemic demands an effective vaccine to acquire protection against the infection. Therefore, the present study was aimed to design a multiepitope-based subunit vaccine (MESV) against COVID-19. METHODS Structural proteins (Surface glycoprotein, Envelope protein, and Membrane glycoprotein) of SARS-CoV-2 are responsible for its prime functions. Sequences of proteins were downloaded from GenBank and several immunoinformatics coupled with computational approaches were employed to forecast B- and T- cell epitopes from the SARS-CoV-2 highly antigenic structural proteins to design an effective MESV. RESULTS Predicted epitopes suggested high antigenicity, conserveness, substantial interactions with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) binding alleles, and collective global population coverage of 88.40%. Taken together, 276 amino acids long MESV was designed by connecting 3 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), 6 helper T lymphocyte (HTL) and 4 B-cell epitopes with suitable adjuvant and linkers. The MESV construct was non-allergenic, stable, and highly antigenic. Molecular docking showed a stable and high binding affinity of MESV with human pathogenic toll-like receptors-3 (TLR3). Furthermore, in silico immune simulation revealed significant immunogenic response of MESV. Finally, MEV codons were optimized for its in silico cloning into the Escherichia coli K-12 system, to ensure its increased expression. CONCLUSION The MESV developed in this study is capable of generating immune response against COVID-19. Therefore, if designed MESV further investigated experimentally, it would be an effective vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 to control and prevent COVID-19.
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MESH Headings
- Betacoronavirus/immunology
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 Vaccines
- Coronavirus Infections/genetics
- Coronavirus Infections/immunology
- Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control
- Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/chemistry
- Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/chemistry
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Humans
- Immunogenicity, Vaccine/immunology
- Molecular Docking Simulation
- Pandemics/prevention & control
- Pneumonia, Viral/immunology
- Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control
- SARS-CoV-2
- Sequence Analysis, Protein
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/chemistry
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/genetics
- Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/immunology
- Toll-Like Receptor 3/chemistry
- Toll-Like Receptor 3/genetics
- Toll-Like Receptor 3/immunology
- Vaccines, Subunit/chemistry
- Vaccines, Subunit/genetics
- Vaccines, Subunit/immunology
- Vaccinology/methods
- Viral Matrix Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Matrix Proteins/genetics
- Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
- Viral Vaccines/chemistry
- Viral Vaccines/genetics
- Viral Vaccines/immunology
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Healthcare Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, P. R. China.
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Choi KY, El-Hamdi NS, McGregor A. Convalescent Immunity to Guinea Pig Cytomegalovirus Induces Limited Cross Strain Protection against Re-Infection but High-Level Protection against Congenital Disease. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21175997. [PMID: 32825429 PMCID: PMC7504201 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21175997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 08/12/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The guinea pig is the only small animal model for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) but requires guinea pig cytomegalovirus (GPCMV). Current GPCMV research utilizes prototype strain 22122, which limits the translational impact of GPCMV as numerous human CMV strains exist and cCMV is possible in the setting of re-infection. A novel strain of GPCMV (TAMYC) exhibited differences to 22122 in various glycoproteins with GP74 (gO homolog) the most variable (25% difference). Antibody ELISAs for TAMYC-convalescent animals evoked similar immune response to viral glycoprotein complexes (gB, gH/gL, gM/gN, pentamer) and cell-mediated response to pp65 homolog (GP83). Convalescent sera from TAMYC-infected animals neutralized GPCMV infection on fibroblasts but was less effective on epithelial cells. TAMYC-convalescent animals were not protected from dissemination of heterogenous virus challenge (22122). However, in a cCMV protection study, TAMYC-convalescent animals challenged mid-pregnancy (22122) exhibited high-level protection against cCMV compared to seronegative animals with pup transmission reduced from 80% (control) to 12%. Overall, pre-existing immunity in guinea pigs provides limited ability to prevent GPCMV re-infection by a different viral strain but provides a high level of protection against cCMV in heterogenous strain challenge. This level of cross protection against cCMV should be a prerequisite of any CMV vaccine.
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Gasanova TV, Koroleva AA, Skurat EV, Ivanov PA. Complexes Formed via Bioconjugation of Genetically Modified TMV Particles with Conserved Influenza Antigen: Synthesis and Characterization. Biochemistry (Mosc) 2020; 85:224-233. [PMID: 32093598 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297920020091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Recently we obtained complexes between genetically modified Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) particles and proteins carrying conserved influenza antigen such as M2e epitope. Viral vector TMV-N-lys based on TMV-U1 genome was constructed by insertion of chemically active lysine into the exposed N-terminal part of the coat protein. Nicotiana benthamiana plants were agroinjected and TMV-N-lys virions were purified from non-inoculated leaves. Preparation was analyzed by SDS-PAGE/Coomassie staining; main protein with electrophoretic mobility of 21 kDa was detected. Electron microscopy confirmed the stability of modified particles. Chemical conjugation of TMV-N-lys virions and target influenza antigen M2e expressed in E. coli was performed using 5 mM 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-carbodiimide and 1 mM N-hydroxysuccinimide. The efficiency of chemical conjugation was confirmed by Western blotting. For additional characterization we used conventional electron microscopy. The diameter of the complexes did not differ significantly from the initial TMV-N-lys virions, but complexes formed highly organized and extensive network with dense "grains" on the surface. Dynamic light scattering demonstrated that the single peaks, reflecting the complexes TMV-N-lys/DHFR-M2e were significantly shifted relative to the control TMV-N-lys virions. The indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with TMV- and DHFR-M2e-specific antibodies showed that the complexes retain stability during overnight adsorption. Thus, the results allow using these complexes for immunization of animals with the subsequent preparation of a candidate universal vaccine against the influenza virus.
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- T V Gasanova
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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Wu F, Zhang S, Zhang Y, Mo R, Yan F, Wang H, Wong G, Chi H, Wang T, Feng N, Gao Y, Xia X, Zhao Y, Yang S. A Chimeric Sudan Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Candidate Produced by a Recombinant Baculovirus System Induces Specific Immune Responses in Mice and Horses. Viruses 2020; 12:v12010064. [PMID: 31947873 PMCID: PMC7019897 DOI: 10.3390/v12010064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2019] [Revised: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Ebola virus infections lead to severe hemorrhagic fevers in humans and nonhuman primates; and human fatality rates are as high as 67%–90%. Since the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976, the only available treatments have been medical support or the emergency administration of experimental drugs. The absence of licensed vaccines and drugs against the Ebola virus impedes the prevention of viral infection. In this study, we generated recombinant baculoviruses (rBV) expressing the Sudan virus (SUDV) matrix structural protein (VP40) (rBV-VP40-VP40) or the SUDV glycoprotein (GP) (rBV-GP-GP), and SUDV virus-like particles (VLPs) were produced by co-infection of Sf9 cells with rBV-SUDV-VP40 and rBV-SUDV-GP. The expression of SUDV VP40 and GP in SUDV VLPs was demonstrated by IFA and Western blot analysis. Electron microscopy results demonstrated that SUDV VLPs had a filamentous morphology. The immunogenicity of SUDV VLPs produced in insect cells was evaluated by the immunization of mice. The analysis of antibody responses showed that mice vaccinated with SUDV VLPs and the adjuvant Montanide ISA 201 produced SUDV GP-specific IgG antibodies. Sera from SUDV VLP-immunized mice were able to block infection by SUDV GP pseudotyped HIV, indicating that a neutralizing antibody against the SUDV GP protein was produced. Furthermore, the activation of B cells in the group immunized with VLPs mixed with Montanide ISA 201 was significant one week after the primary immunization. Vaccination with the SUDV VLPs markedly increased the frequency of antigen-specific cells secreting type 1 and type 2 cytokines. To study the therapeutic effects of SUDV antibodies, horses were immunized with SUDV VLPs emulsified in Freund’s complete adjuvant or Freund’s incomplete adjuvant. The results showed that horses could produce SUDV GP-specific antibodies and neutralizing antibodies. These results showed that SUDV VLPs demonstrate excellent immunogenicity and represent a promising approach for vaccine development against SUDV infection. Further, these horse anti-SUDV purified immunoglobulins lay a foundation for SUDV therapeutic drug research.
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- Fangfang Wu
- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Animal Science and Technology College, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China
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- Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 20031, China;
- Special Pathogens Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB R3E3R2, Canada
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Correspondence: (Y.Z.); (S.Y.)
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; (F.W.); (S.Z.); (Y.Z.); (R.M.); (F.Y.); (H.W.); (H.C.); (T.W.); (N.F.); (Y.G.); (X.X.)
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun 130000, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Correspondence: (Y.Z.); (S.Y.)
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Peptide-based vaccines are an appealing strategy which involves usage of short synthetic peptides to engineer a highly targeted immune response. These short synthetic peptides contain potential T- and B-cell epitopes. Experimental approaches in identifying these epitopes are time-consuming and expensive; hence immunoinformatics approach came into picture. Immuninformatics approach involves epitope prediction tools, molecular docking, and population coverage analysis in design of desired immunogenic peptides. In order to overcome the antigenic variation of viruses, conserved regions are targeted to find the potential epitopes. The present chapter demonstrates the use of immunoinformatics approach to select potential peptide containing multiple T- (CD8+ and CD4+) and B-cell epitopes from Avian H3N2 M1 Protein. Further, molecular docking (to analyse HLA-peptide interaction) and population coverage analysis have been used to verify the potential of peptide to be presented by polymorphic HLA molecules. In silico approach of epitope prediction has proven to be successful methodology in screening the putative epitopes among numerous possible vaccine targets in a given protein.
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- Neha Lohia
- Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India.
- School of Life Sciences, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India
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Ge Y, Zhou Z, Wang X, Zhou Y, Liu W, Teng Z, Zeng Y. In vitro evaluation of the therapeutic effectiveness of EBV-LMP2 recombinant adenovirus vaccine in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Biomed Pharmacother 2019; 121:109626. [PMID: 31743878 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2019.109626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2019] [Revised: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Immunotherapeutic strategies based on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 2 (LMP2) antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) have been proven to boost LMP2-specific CTL responses in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Such strategies can produce clinical benefits in some patients with NPC. Currently, the major challenge limiting the use of immunotherapy for NPC is its low clinical response rate. The efficacy of immunotherapy based on EBV-LMP2 specific CTLs depends mainly on their cytotoxic activity, but no studies have been conducted to elucidate this activity. In this study, laser confocal scanning microscopy (LCSM) and real-time cell analysis (RTCA) were used to evaluate the killing function and its underlying mechanism of LMP2-specific CTLs. LCSM showed that LMP2-specific CTLs recognize and kill target cells expressing viral escape protein LMP2, and that the killing rate is related to the number of CTLs adhering to the target cells. LMP2-specific CTL-mediated cytotoxicity is rate limited by the time required for effective contact and recognition between CTLs and target cells. RTCA showed that the protective effect of LMP2-specific CTLs required an appropriate effector-to-target ratio, and that LMP2-specific CTLs could not eradicate residual target cells at a low effector-to-target ratio. Moreover, our results revealed that LMP2-specific CTL responses involve two independent but complementary mechanisms: the perforin/granzyme and Fas/FasL pathways. Therefore, we have elucidated, for the first time, the selective cytotoxicity and mechanism by which LMP2-specific CTLs induced by the rAd-LMP2 vaccine kill target cells and have explored the killing mode and several key parameters of killing mediated by LMP2-specific CTLs. Our study will contribute to the knowledge of vaccines targeting EBV-LMP2 and to the improvement of immunotherapeutic strategies.
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- Yuyang Ge
- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China; National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.
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Mutsvunguma LZ, Rodriguez E, Escalante GM, Muniraju M, Williams JC, Warden C, Qin H, Wang J, Wu X, Barasa A, Mulama DH, Mwangi W, Ogembo JG. Identification of multiple potent neutralizing and non-neutralizing antibodies against Epstein-Barr virus gp350 protein with potential for clinical application and as reagents for mapping immunodominant epitopes. Virology 2019; 536:1-15. [PMID: 31377598 PMCID: PMC6733660 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Prevention of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has focused on generating neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the major envelope glycoprotein gp350/220 (gp350). In this study, we generated 23 hybridomas producing gp350-specific antibodies. We compared the candidate gp350-specific antibodies to the well-characterized nAb 72A1 by: (1) testing their ability to detect gp350 using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, flow cytometry, and immunoblot; (2) sequencing their heavy and light chain complementarity-determining regions (CDRs); (3) measuring the ability of each monoclonal antibody (mAb) to neutralize EBV infection in vitro; and (4) mapping the gp350 amino acids bound by the mAbs using competitive cell and linear peptide binding assays. We performed sequence analysis to identify 15 mAbs with CDR regions unique from those of murine 72A1 (m72A1). We observed antigen binding competition between biotinylated m72A1, serially diluted unlabeled gp350 nAbs (HB1, HB5, HB11, HB20), and our recently humanized 72A1, but not gp350 non-nAb (HB17) or anti-KSHV gH/gL antibody.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/biosynthesis
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/isolation & purification
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/biosynthesis
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/chemistry
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/isolation & purification
- Antibodies, Neutralizing/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Viral/biosynthesis
- Antibodies, Viral/chemistry
- Antibodies, Viral/isolation & purification
- Antibodies, Viral/pharmacology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/virology
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Binding, Competitive
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Complementarity Determining Regions/chemistry
- Complementarity Determining Regions/immunology
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Epithelial Cells/immunology
- Epithelial Cells/virology
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/immunology
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/prevention & control
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/virology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/drug effects
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
- Humans
- Hybridomas/chemistry
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Immunodominant Epitopes/chemistry
- Immunodominant Epitopes/immunology
- Mice
- Protein Binding
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Viral Matrix Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
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- Lorraine Z Mutsvunguma
- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Integrative Genomics Core, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Integrative Genomics Core, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Integrative Genomics Core, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Integrative Genomics Core, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA; Department of Human Pathology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA.
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Asthagiri Arunkumar G, McMahon M, Pavot V, Aramouni M, Ioannou A, Lambe T, Gilbert S, Krammer F. Vaccination with viral vectors expressing NP, M1 and chimeric hemagglutinin induces broad protection against influenza virus challenge in mice. Vaccine 2019; 37:5567-5577. [PMID: 31399277 PMCID: PMC6717082 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.07.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Revised: 07/06/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Seasonal influenza virus infections cause significant morbidity and mortality every year. Annual influenza virus vaccines are effective but only when well matched with circulating strains. Therefore, there is an urgent need for better vaccines that induce broad protection against drifted seasonal and emerging pandemic influenza viruses. One approach to design such vaccines is based on targeting conserved regions of the influenza virus hemagglutinin. Sequential vaccination with chimeric hemagglutinin constructs can refocus antibody responses towards the conserved immunosubdominant stalk domain of the hemagglutinin, rather than the variable immunodominant head. A complementary approach for a universal influenza A virus vaccine is to induce T-cell responses to conserved internal influenza virus antigens. For this purpose, replication deficient recombinant viral vectors based on Chimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford 1 and Modified Vaccinia Ankara virus are used to express the viral nucleoprotein and the matrix protein 1. In this study, we combined these two strategies and evaluated the efficacy of viral vectors expressing both chimeric hemagglutinin and nucleoprotein plus matrix protein 1 in a mouse model against challenge with group 2 influenza viruses including H3N2, H7N9 and H10N8. We found that vectored vaccines expressing both sets of antigens provided enhanced protection against H3N2 virus challenge when compared to vaccination with viral vectors expressing only one set of antigens. Vaccine induced antibody responses against divergent group 2 hemagglutinins, nucleoprotein and matrix protein 1 as well as robust T-cell responses to the nucleoprotein and matrix protein 1 were detected. Of note, it was observed that while antibodies to the H3 stalk were already boosted to high levels after two vaccinations with chimeric hemagglutinins (cHAs), three exposures were required to induce strong reactivity across subtypes. Overall, these results show that a combinations of different universal influenza virus vaccine strategies can induce broad antibody and T-cell responses and can provide increased protection against influenza.
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- Guha Asthagiri Arunkumar
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
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Yu NT, Zheng XB, Liu ZX. Protective immunity induced by DNA vaccine encoding viral membrane protein against SGIV infection in grouper. Fish Shellfish Immunol 2019; 92:649-654. [PMID: 31265911 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.06.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Revised: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 06/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Singapore grouper iridovirus (SGIV) is the main grouper-infecting virus in southern China that causes serious economic losses. However, there is no effective way to control this viral disease. In this study, SGIV ORF19R (SGIV-19R) encoding a viral membrane protein was constructed into pcDNA3.1-HA and then was used to evaluate the immune protective effects in grouper Epinephelus coioides. Subcellular localization showed that SGIV-19R distributed in the cytoplasm and co-localization analysis indicated the protein partially co-localized with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). RT-PCR and Western blot analyses confirmed the expression of the vaccine plasmids in grouper muscle tissues. Moreover, the transcription levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), myxovirus resistance 1 (Mx1) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) genes were significantly up-regulated in the spleen, liver and kidney of vaccinated groupers. SGIV challenge experiments showed the relative percent survival (RPS) was significantly enhanced in fish with 49.9% at the DNA dose of 45 μg pcDNA3.1-19R, while 75.0% RPS when using 90 μg pcDNA3.1-19R. Meanwhile, vaccination with pcDNA3.1-19R significantly reduced the virus replication, evidenced by a low viral load in the spleen of survivals groupers after SGIV challenge. These results imply that pcDNA3.1-19R could induce protective immunity in grouper, and might be a potential vaccine candidate for controlling SGIV disease.
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- Nai-Tong Yu
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China; Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Microbe Resources, Haikou, 571101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China
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McMahon M, Asthagiri Arunkumar G, Liu WC, Stadlbauer D, Albrecht RA, Pavot V, Aramouni M, Lambe T, Gilbert SC, Krammer F. Vaccination With Viral Vectors Expressing Chimeric Hemagglutinin, NP and M1 Antigens Protects Ferrets Against Influenza Virus Challenge. Front Immunol 2019; 10:2005. [PMID: 31497029 PMCID: PMC6712942 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Seasonal influenza viruses cause significant morbidity and mortality in the global population every year. Although seasonal vaccination limits disease, mismatches between the circulating strain and the vaccine strain can severely impair vaccine effectiveness. Because of this, there is an urgent need for a universal vaccine that induces broad protection against drifted seasonal and emerging pandemic influenza viruses. Targeting the conserved stalk region of the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA), the major glycoprotein on the surface of the virus, results in the production of broadly protective antibody responses. Furthermore, replication deficient viral vectors based on Chimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford 1 (ChAdOx1) and modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus expressing the influenza virus internal antigens, the nucleoprotein (NP) and matrix 1 (M1) protein, can induce strong heterosubtypic influenza virus-specific T cell responses in vaccinated individuals. Here, we combine these two platforms to evaluate the efficacy of a viral vectored vaccination regimen in protecting ferrets from H3N2 influenza virus infection. We observed that viral vectored vaccines expressing both stalk-targeting, chimeric HA constructs, and the NP+M1 fusion protein, in a prime-boost regimen resulted in the production of antibodies toward group 2 HAs, the HA stalk, NP and M1, as well as in induction of influenza virus-specific-IFNγ responses. The immune response induced by this vaccination regime ultimately reduced viral titers in the respiratory tract of influenza virus infected ferrets. Overall, these results improve our understanding of vaccination platforms capable of harnessing both cellular and humoral immunity with the goal of developing a universal influenza virus vaccine.
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- Meagan McMahon
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
- Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
- Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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Pletinckx K, Vaßen S, Schlusche I, Nordhoff S, Bahrenberg G, Dunkern TR. Inhibiting the immunoproteasome's β5i catalytic activity affects human peripheral blood-derived immune cell viability. Pharmacol Res Perspect 2019; 7:e00482. [PMID: 31236277 PMCID: PMC6581949 DOI: 10.1002/prp2.482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Revised: 04/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Small molecule inhibitors selectively targeting the immunoproteasome subunit β5i are currently being developed for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. However, patients carrying loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding β5i (Psmb8) suffer from the proteasome-associated autoinflammatory syndromes (PRAAS) emphasizing the need to study pharmacological inhibition of immunoproteasome function in human cells. Here, we characterized the immunomodulatory potential of the selective β5i inhibitor ONX 0914 and Bortezomib, a pan-proteasome inhibitor, in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Both compounds efficiently blocked pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion in human whole blood and PBMC cultures stimulated with toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists. Furthermore, the compounds inhibited T cell cytokine production induced by recall antigen CMVpp65 or by polyclonal stimulation. The viability of PBMCs, however, was rapidly decreased in the presence of ONX 0914 and Bortezomib demonstrated by decreased residual cytosolic ATP and increased Annexin V surface binding. Interestingly, HLA-DR + monocytes were rapidly depleted from the cultures in the presence of ONX 0914 as a β5i-selective inhibitor and Bortezomib. In conclusion, the anti-inflammatory potential of β5i-selective inhibitors is correlating with a cytotoxicity increase in human PBMC subsets ex vivo. Our results provide important insights into the anti-inflammatory mechanism of action of β5i-inhibitors which currently hold the promise as a novel therapy for autoinflammatory diseases.
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DU HJ, Tong YY, Wang Z, Zhang LX, Zeng Y. Immunological Responses to the Combination of EBNA1 and LMP2 in Mice. Biomed Environ Sci 2019; 32:380-382. [PMID: 31217056 DOI: 10.3967/bes2019.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- Hai Jun DU
- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China; College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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Liu J, Zhao W, He W, Wang N, Su J, Ji S, Chen J, Wang D, Zhou J, Su S. Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies against Variable Epitopes of the M Protein of Rabies Virus. Viruses 2019; 11:v11040375. [PMID: 31018607 PMCID: PMC6520763 DOI: 10.3390/v11040375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Rabies virus (RABV), the causative agent of rabies, is highly neurovirulent for warm-blooded animals with a mortality rate of up to 100%. The RABV matrix protein (M) is required for virus particle assembly and budding. However, little is known about antigenic differences in the M protein. In this study, five monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), designated 3B9, 4A1, 2B11, 2C1, and 4B11, against the RABV M protein were generated using a recombinant M protein. All five mAbs reacted with the CVS-11 strain but showed no reactivity against the HEP-Flury strain in indirect immunofluorescence and western blotting. The epitope targeted by these mAbs was further identified by peptide scanning using GST-fused peptides. The 25PPYDDD30 peptide was defined as the minimal linear epitope. Alignment of amino acid sequences and phylogenetic analysis of different RABV strains indicated that the variable epitope 25PPDGDD30 is only present in the HEP-Flury and variant Flury strains of clade III, while the other strains resembling ERA and SRVA9 within the clade had another variable epitope, 25PLDDDD30. A Y27D mutation within the epitope was found among the rest of the RABV strains distributed in different clades. However, a single D28G mutation eliminated the reactivity of these five mAbs. In addition, the mAbs were able to recognize wildtype RABV strain in indirect immunofluorescence and western blotting and detect RABV-infected brain tissue using immunohistochemistry. The newly established mAbs and identified epitope may facilitate future investigations in the structure and function of the M protein and the development of diagnostic methods for the detection of different RABV strains worldwide. Most importantly, the epitope recognized by the mAbs against M protein might serve as a novel target for the development of a vaccine targeting RABV virulent strains.
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- Jie Liu
- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control, Beijing 100081, China.
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- China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Key laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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Hajam IA, Kim J, Lee JH. Intranasally administered polyethylenimine adjuvanted influenza M2 ectodomain induces partial protection against H9N2 influenza A virus infection in chickens. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2019; 209:78-83. [PMID: 30885310 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2019.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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This study aimed to investigate whether intranasally coadministered four tandem copies of extracellular domains of M2 (M2e) and polyethyleneimine (PEI), a mucosal adjuvant, can protect chickens against H9N2 influenza A virus infection. Groups of chickens were intranasally vaccinated with M2e plus PEI adjuvant, M2e alone or PEI adjuvant, and antibody (serum IgG and mucosal IgA) and cellular (CD4+ T cells and IFN-γ levels) immune responses were measured post-vaccination. We demonstrated that the chickens vaccinated with M2e plus PEI adjuvant showed significantly (p < 0.05) higher M2e-specific systemic IgG and mucosal IgA responses compared to the chickens that received either M2e alone or PEI adjuvant. The IgA responses measured in lungs were almost comparable to that of the serum IgG levels. Upon restimulation of the vaccinated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with M2e antigen, significantly (p < 0.05) higher IFN-γ levels were observed only in M2e plus PEI adjuvant vaccinated group. Lymphoproliferative and CD4+ T cell responses, as measured by MTT-based assay and flow cytometry, respectively, were also observed significantly (p < 0.05) higher in M2e plus PEI adjuvant vaccinated chickens. On challenge with the H9N2 virus (104TCID50) at 28th day post-vaccination, M2e plus PEI adjuvant vaccinated group exhibited lower lung inflammation and viral load compared to the chickens treated with either M2e alone or PEI adjuvant. In summary, we show that intranasally coadministered M2e and PEI adjuvant can elicit humoral and cell-mediated immune responses and can reduce viremia levels in chickens post H9N2 infection in chickens.
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- Irshad Ahmed Hajam
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Iksan, 54596, Republic of Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Iksan, 54596, Republic of Korea
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Iksan, 54596, Republic of Korea.
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Yao Y, Wang H, Chen J, Shao Z, He B, Chen J, Lan J, Chen Q, Chen Z. Protection against homo and hetero-subtypic influenza A virus by optimized M2e DNA vaccine. Emerg Microbes Infect 2019; 8:45-54. [PMID: 30866759 PMCID: PMC6455129 DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2018.1558962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Current influenza vaccines provide hemagglutinin strain-specific protection, but rarely provide cross-protection against divergent strains. It is, therefore, particularly important to develop a universal vaccine against conserved proteins or conserved regions of the virus. In this study, we used N-terminal extracellular region of the influenza virus M2 protein (M2e) as the target antigen and constructed two optimized M2e DNA vaccines (p-tPA-p3M2e and p-p3M2e) with increased antigenic epitope density and enhanced antigen secretion. Both vaccines induced high M2e-specific humoral and cellular immune responses in the vaccinated mice. These two vaccines also conferred protection against a lethal infection of homo-subtypic H1N1 virus, with p-tPA-p3M2e being the most effective. In addition, p-tPA-p3M2e also showed cross-protection against different subtypes of the influenza virus (H9N2, H6N6, and H10N8) at varying rates (80%, 40%, and 20%, respectively). After passive immunization, M2e DNA vaccine-induced antibodies in the sera provided complete protection against homologous virus challenge. An analysis of the mechanism underlying this immunization-mediated protection indicates that M2e-specific IgG and T-cell immune responses may play critical roles in the prevention of infection and viral clearance. Taken together, our results indicate that this optimized M2e DNA vaccine is a promising candidate for the development of a universal, broad-spectrum influenza virus vaccine.
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- Yanfeng Yao
- National Biosafety Laboratory, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Center for Brain Science, Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems and State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China
- Shanghai Institute of Biological Products, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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McLaughlin LP, Rouce R, Gottschalk S, Torrano V, Carrum G, Wu MF, Hoq F, Grilley B, Marcogliese AM, Hanley PJ, Gee AP, Brenner MK, Rooney CM, Heslop HE, Bollard CM. EBV/LMP-specific T cells maintain remissions of T- and B-cell EBV lymphomas after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Blood 2018; 132:2351-2361. [PMID: 30262660 PMCID: PMC6265652 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2018-07-863654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Autologous T cells targeting Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane proteins (LMPs) have shown safety and efficacy in the treatment of patients with type 2 latency EBV-associated lymphomas for whom standard therapies have failed, including high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem-cell rescue. However, the safety and efficacy of allogeneic donor-derived LMP-specific T cells (LMP-Ts) have not been established for patients who have undergone allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). Therefore, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of donor-derived LMP-Ts in 26 patients who had undergone allogeneic HSCT for EBV-associated natural killer/T-cell or B-cell lymphomas. Seven patients received LMP-Ts as therapy for active disease, and 19 were treated with adjuvant therapy for high-risk disease. There were no immediate infusion-related toxicities, and only 1 dose-limiting toxicity potentially related to T-cell infusion was seen. The 2-year overall survival (OS) was 68%. Additionally, patients who received T-cell therapy while in complete remission after allogeneic HSCT had a 78% OS at 2 years. Patients treated for B-cell disease (n = 10) had a 2-year OS of 80%. Patients with T-cell disease had a 2-year OS of 60%, which suggests an improvement compared with published posttransplantation 2-year OS rates of 30% to 50%. Hence, this study shows that donor-derived LMP-Ts are a safe and effective therapy to prevent relapse after transplantation in patients with B cell- or T cell-derived EBV-associated lymphoma or lymphoproliferative disorder and supports the infusion of LMP-Ts as adjuvant therapy to improve outcomes in the posttransplantation setting. These trials were registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT00062868 and #NCT01956084.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/complications
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/immunology
- Female
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/methods
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/isolation & purification
- Humans
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/therapy
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/virology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/therapy
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/virology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/immunology
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/prevention & control
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/transplantation
- Transplantation, Homologous/methods
- Treatment Outcome
- Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
- Young Adult
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- Lauren P McLaughlin
- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Health System and George Washington University, Washington, DC
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Department of Pediatrics
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Department of Immunology
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Health System and George Washington University, Washington, DC
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Health System and George Washington University, Washington, DC
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Department of Pediatrics
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Department of Medicine, and
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Immunology
- Department of Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Department of Medicine, and
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Health System and George Washington University, Washington, DC
- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; and
- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Immunology
- Department of Pathology
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Yang R, Zhu Y, Ma J, Hao YZ, Wang X, Hou ML, Liu LP, Fan LY, Cao YX, Zhang XG, Li XJ. Neutralizing Antibody Titer Test of Ebola Recombinant Protein Vaccine and Gene Vector Vaccine pVR-GP-FC. Biomed Environ Sci 2018; 31:721-728. [PMID: 30423273 DOI: 10.3967/bes2018.097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVE In previous studies, we immunized mice with Ebola recombinant protein vaccine and gene vector vaccine. Both stimulated high levels of humoral immunity. In this work, we constructed a pseudovirus containing Ebola membrane proteins to verify whether the two immunization strategies can induce neutralizing antibodies in mice. METHODS A pseudovirus containing an Ebola virus membrane protein based on the HIV-1 viral gene sequence was constructed and evaluated using a known neutralizing antibody. The titer of the neutralizing antibody in the sera of mice immunized with the recombinant protein and the gene vector vaccine was examined using a neutralization test. RESULTS Ebola pseudovirus was successfully prepared and applied for neutralizing antibody detection. Immunological experiments showed that recombinant protein GP-Fc and gene vaccine pVR-modGP-Fc had good immunogenicity. The titer of the bound antibody in the serum after 8 weeks of immunization in mice was more than 1:105, and the recombinant protein induced greater humoral immunity. The results of the neutralization test based on the Ebola pseudovirus system demonstrated that both vaccines induced production of protective antibodies, while the gene vaccine induced a higher titer of neutralizing antibodies. CONCLUSION An Ebola pseudovirus detection system was successfully established and used to evaluate two Ebola vaccines. Both produced good immunogenicity. The findings lay the foundation for the development of new Ebola vaccines and screening for neutralizing monoclonal antibodies.
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- Ren Yang
- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao 266033, Shandong, China; Qingdao Institute of Preventive Medicine, Qingdao 266033, Shandong, China
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Zhang C, Zhao Z, Liu GY, Li J, Wang GX, Zhu B. Immune response and protective effect against spring viremia of carp virus induced by intramuscular vaccination with a SWCNTs-DNA vaccine encoding matrix protein. Fish Shellfish Immunol 2018; 79:256-264. [PMID: 29777766 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2018.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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To elicit the immune protective of vaccine against the highly contagious and pathogenic disease caused by spring viremia of carp virus (SVCV), a novel functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) were applied as a delivery vehicle for DNA vaccine. In this study, we report a SWCNTs-DNA vaccine encoding matrix protein of SVCV which, when injected in the muscle at a dose of 10 μg SWCNTs-pcDNA-M vaccine, confers up to 51.3% protection against intraperitoneal challenge with SVCV. In addition, SWCNTs as a promising vehicle can enhance about 17.5% of the immune protective effect in SWCNTs-pcDNA-M vaccinated common carp compared with fish injected with naked pcDNA-M DNA vaccine. In addition, serum antibody production, none specific immunity parameters (complement activity, superoxide dismutase activity (SOD), acid phosphatase activity (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase activity (AKP)) and immune-related genes were used to verify the enhancement immune response induced in SWCNTs-pcDNA-M vaccinated fish, herein all these mentioned immune activities were significantly enhanced after immunization. Thereby, it is revealed that the M gene of SVCV could be used as an antigen for DNA vaccine constructs, and SWCNTs could be a candidate DNA vaccine carrier to enhance the immunological response against fish disease.
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- Chen Zhang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China.
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China.
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Fan S, Xu X, Liao Y, Wang Y, Wang J, Feng M, Wang L, Zhang Y, He Z, Yang F, Fraser NW, Li Q. Attenuated Phenotype and Immunogenic Characteristics of a Mutated Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Strain in the Rhesus Macaque. Viruses 2018; 10:E234. [PMID: 29724057 PMCID: PMC5977227 DOI: 10.3390/v10050234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 04/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1) presents a conundrum to public health worldwide because of its specific pathogenicity and clinical features. Some experimental vaccines, such as the recombinant viral glycoproteins, exhibit the viral immunogenicity of a host-specific immune response, but none of these has achieved a valid epidemiological protective efficacy in the human population. In the present study, we constructed an attenuated HSV-1 strain M3 through the partial deletion of UL7, UL41, and the latency-associated transcript (LAT) using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. The mutant strain exhibited lowered infectivity and virulence in macaques. Neutralization testing and ELISpot detection of the specific T-cell responses confirmed the specific immunity induced by M3 immunization and this immunity defended against the challenges of the wild-type strain and restricted the entry of the wild-type strain into the trigeminal ganglion. These results in rhesus macaques demonstrated the potential of the attenuated vaccine for the prevention of HSV-1 in humans.
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- Shengtao Fan
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Vaccine Research and Development on Severe Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Kunming 650118, China.
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Bollard CM, Tripic T, Cruz CR, Dotti G, Gottschalk S, Torrano V, Dakhova O, Carrum G, Ramos CA, Liu H, Wu MF, Marcogliese AN, Barese C, Zu Y, Lee DY, O’Connor O, Gee AP, Brenner MK, Heslop HE, Rooney CM. Tumor-Specific T-Cells Engineered to Overcome Tumor Immune Evasion Induce Clinical Responses in Patients With Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:1128-1139. [PMID: 29315015 PMCID: PMC5891126 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.74.3179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Purpose Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) production in the tumor microenvironment is a potent and ubiquitous tumor immune evasion mechanism that inhibits the expansion and function of tumor-directed responses; therefore, we conducted a clinical study to discover the effects of the forced expression of a dominant-negative TGF-β receptor type 2 (DNRII) on the safety, survival, and activity of infused tumor-directed T cells. Materials and Methods In a dose escalation study, eight patients with Epstein Barr virus-positive Hodgkin lymphoma received two to 12 doses of between 2 × 107 and 1.5 × 108 cells/m2 of DNRII-expressing T cells with specificity for the Epstein Barr virus-derived tumor antigens, latent membrane protein (LMP)-1 and LMP-2 (DNRII-LSTs). Lymphodepleting chemotherapy was not used before infusion. Results DNRII-LSTs were resistant to otherwise inhibitory concentrations of TGF-β in vitro and retained their tumor antigen-specific activity. After infusion, the signal from transgenic T cells in peripheral blood increased up to 100-fold as measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the transgene, with a corresponding increase in the frequency of functional LMP-specific T cells. Expansion was not associated with any acute or long-term toxicity. DNRII-LSTs persisted for up to ≥ 4 years. Four of the seven evaluable patients with active disease achieved clinical responses that were complete and ongoing in two patients at > 4 years, including in one patient who achieved only a partial response to unmodified tumor-directed T cells. Conclusion TGF-β-resistant tumor-specific T cells safely expand and persist in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma without lymphodepleting chemotherapy before infusion. DNRII-LSTs can induce complete responses even in patients with resistant disease. Expression of DNRII may be useful for the many other tumors that exploit this potent immune evasion mechanism.
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- Catherine M. Bollard
- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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- Catherine M. Bollard, Tamara Tripic, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, Vicky Torrano, Olga Dakhova, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital; Catherine M. Bollard, Gianpietro Dotti, Stephen Gottschalk, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Andrea N. Marcogliese, Adrian P. Gee, Malcolm K. Brenner, Helen E. Heslop, and Cliona M. Rooney, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, and Cecilia Barese, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC; Youli Zu and Daniel Y. Lee, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Owen O’Connor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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Dabaghian M, Latifi AM, Tebianian M, NajmiNejad H, Ebrahimi SM. Nasal vaccination with r4M2e.HSP70c antigen encapsulated into N-trimethyl chitosan (TMC) nanoparticulate systems: Preparation and immunogenicity in a mouse model. Vaccine 2018; 36:2886-2895. [PMID: 29627234 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.02.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Revised: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
In this study, the potential of N-trimethyl chitosan (TMC) nanoparticles as a carrier system for the nasal delivery of the r4M2e.HSP70c, as an M2e-based universal recombinant influenza virus vaccine candidate, was investigated in mice. The anti-M2e specific cellular and humoral immune responses were assessed and the protective efficacy against a 90% lethal dose (LD90) of influenza A/PR/8/34 (H1N1) in a mice model was evaluated. Our results showed that the intranasal immunization of mice with r4M2e.HSP70c+TMC rather than the control groups, r4M2e+TMC, r4M2e and PBS (Phosphate buffer saline), significantly elevated both longevity and serum level of the total M2e-specific IgG antibody with a significant shift in the IgG2a/IgG1 ratio toward IgG2a, induced a Th1 skewed humoral and cellular immune responses, increased IFN-γ, IgG, and IgA in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), and promoted the proliferation of peripheral blood lymphocytes with lower morbidity and mortality rate against viral challenge. In conclusion, based on evidence to our finding, nasal vaccination with r4M2e.HSP70c antigen encapsulated into N-Trimethyl Chitosan (TMC) nanoparticulate system showed to induce a long lasting M2e-specific humoral and cellular immune responses and also provided full protection against a 90% lethal dose (LD90) of the influenza virus A/PR/8/34 (H1N1). It seems, protective immunity following intranasal administration of r4M2e could be resulted by the cooperation of both adjuvants, TMC and HSP70c.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/administration & dosage
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/pharmacology
- Administration, Intranasal
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral/analysis
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/immunology
- Cell Proliferation
- Chitosan/administration & dosage
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drug Carriers/administration & dosage
- Female
- HSP72 Heat-Shock Proteins/administration & dosage
- HSP72 Heat-Shock Proteins/pharmacology
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Immunity, Humoral
- Immunoglobulin A/analysis
- Immunoglobulin G/analysis
- Influenza Vaccines/administration & dosage
- Influenza Vaccines/immunology
- Influenza, Human/prevention & control
- Interferon-gamma/analysis
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/immunology
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Nanoparticles/administration & dosage
- Serum/immunology
- Survival Analysis
- Treatment Outcome
- Vaccines, Synthetic/administration & dosage
- Vaccines, Synthetic/immunology
- Viral Matrix Proteins/administration & dosage
- Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- Mehran Dabaghian
- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 14155-3651, Tehran, Iran; Biotechnology Department, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 14155-3651, Tehran, Iran
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- Biotechnology Department, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- Yazd University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Yazd, Iran
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- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 14155-3651, Tehran, Iran.
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Ren Z, Zhao Y, Liu J, Ji X, Meng L, Wang T, Sun W, Zhang K, Sang X, Yu Z, Li Y, Feng N, Wang H, Yang S, Yang Z, Ma Y, Gao Y, Xia X. Intramuscular and intranasal immunization with an H7N9 influenza virus-like particle vaccine protects mice against lethal influenza virus challenge. Int Immunopharmacol 2018; 58:109-116. [PMID: 29571081 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2017.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 11/23/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
The H7N9 influenza virus epidemic has been associated with a high mortality rate in China. Therefore, to prevent the H7N9 virus from causing further damage, developing a safe and effective vaccine is necessary. In this study, a vaccine candidate consisting of virus-like particles (VLPs) based on H7N9 A/Shanghai/2/2013 and containing hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA), and matrix protein (M1) was successfully produced using a baculovirus (BV) expression system. Immunization experiments showed that strong humoral and cellular immune responses could be induced by the developed VLPs when administered via either the intramuscular (IM) or intranasal (IN) immunization routes. Notably, VLPs administered via both immunization routes provided 100% protection against lethal infection caused by the H7N9 virus. The IN immunization with 40μg of H7N9 VLPs induced strong lung IgA and lung tissue resident memory (TRM) cell-mediated local immune responses. These results provide evidence for the development of an effective preventive vaccine against the H7N9 virus based on VLPs administered through both the IM and IN immunization routes.
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- Zhiguang Ren
- Joint National Laboratory for Antibody Drug Engineering, Henan University, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Kaifeng 475004, China; Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; Key Lab of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Henan University, School of Basic Medicine, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China
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- Joint National Laboratory for Antibody Drug Engineering, Henan University, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Kaifeng 475004, China; Key Lab of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Henan University, School of Basic Medicine, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Joint National Laboratory for Antibody Drug Engineering, Henan University, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Kaifeng 475004, China; Key Lab of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Henan University, School of Basic Medicine, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225000, China; Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130122, China.
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- Institute of Military Veterinary, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun 130122, China; Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225000, China; Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130122, China.
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