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Kim IJ, Tighe MP, Lanthier PA, Clark MJ, De La Barrera RA, Dussupt V, Mendez-Rivera L, Krebs SJ, Travis KL, Low-Beer TC, Cookenham TS, Lanzer KG, Bernacki DT, Szaba FM, Schneck AA, Ward J, Thomas SJ, Modjarrad K, Blackman MA. Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine reduced vertical transmission in pregnant immunocompetent mice. NPJ Vaccines 2024; 9:32. [PMID: 38360793 PMCID: PMC10869681 DOI: 10.1038/s41541-024-00823-1] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a significant threat to pregnant women and their fetuses as it can cause severe birth defects and congenital neurodevelopmental disorders, referred to as congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). Thus, a safe and effective ZIKV vaccine for pregnant women to prevent in utero ZIKV infection is of utmost importance. Murine models of ZIKV infection are limited by the fact that immunocompetent mice are resistant to ZIKV infection. As such, interferon-deficient mice have been used in some preclinical studies to test the efficacy of ZIKV vaccine candidates against lethal virus challenge. However, interferon-deficient mouse models have limitations in assessing the immunogenicity of vaccines, necessitating the use of immunocompetent mouse pregnancy models. Using the human stat2 knock-in (hSTAT2KI) mouse pregnancy model, we show that vaccination with a purified formalin-inactivated Zika virus (ZPIV) vaccine prior to pregnancy successfully prevented vertical transmission. In addition, maternal immunity protected offspring against postnatal challenge for up to 28 days. Furthermore, passive transfer of human IgG purified from hyper-immune sera of ZPIV vaccinees prevented maternal and fetal ZIKV infection, providing strong evidence that the neutralizing antibody response may serve as a meaningful correlate of protection.
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Affiliation(s)
- In-Jeong Kim
- Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY, 12983, USA.
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- Pilot Bioproduction Facility, Center for Enabling Capabilities, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Center of Infectious Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Center of Infectious Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Center of Infectious Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA
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- Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY, 12983, USA
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- Global VetPathology, Montgomery Village, MD, 20886, USA
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- Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
- Pfizer Inc. Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, NY, 10965, USA
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Kim IJ, Tighe MP, Clark MJ, Gromowski GD, Lanthier PA, Travis KL, Bernacki DT, Cookenham TS, Lanzer KG, Szaba FM, Tamhankar MA, Ross CN, Tardif SD, Layne-Colon D, Dick EJ, Gonzalez O, Giraldo Giraldo MI, Patterson JL, Blackman MA. Impact of prior dengue virus infection on Zika virus infection during pregnancy in marmosets. Sci Transl Med 2023; 15:eabq6517. [PMID: 37285402 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abq6517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy causes severe developmental defects in newborns, termed congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). Factors contributing to a surge in ZIKV-associated CZS are poorly understood. One possibility is that ZIKV may exploit the antibody-dependent enhancement of infection mechanism, mediated by cross-reactive antibodies from prior dengue virus (DENV) infection, which may exacerbate ZIKV infection during pregnancy. In this study, we investigated the impact of prior DENV infection or no DENV infection on ZIKV pathogenesis during pregnancy in a total of four female common marmosets with five or six fetuses per group. The results showed that negative-sense viral RNA copies increased in the placental and fetal tissues of DENV-immune dams but not in DENV-naïve dams. In addition, viral proteins were prevalent in endothelial cells, macrophages, and neonatal Fc receptor-expressing cells in the placental trabeculae and in neuronal cells in the brains of fetuses from DENV-immune dams. DENV-immune marmosets maintained high titers of cross-reactive ZIKV-binding antibodies that were poorly neutralizing, raising the possibility that these antibodies might be involved in the exacerbation of ZIKV infection. These findings need to be verified in a larger study, and the mechanism involved in the exacerbation of ZIKV infection in DENV-immune marmosets needs further investigation. However, the results suggest a potential negative impact of preexisting DENV immunity on subsequent ZIKV infection during pregnancy in vivo.
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Affiliation(s)
- In-Jeong Kim
- Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983, USA
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- Viral Diseases Branch, Center of Infectious Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
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Kim IJ, Lanthier PA, Clark MJ, De La Barrera RA, Tighe MP, Szaba FM, Travis KL, Low-Beer TC, Cookenham TS, Lanzer KG, Bernacki DT, Johnson LL, Schneck AA, Ross CN, Tardif SD, Layne-Colon D, Mdaki SD, Dick EJ, Chuba C, Gonzalez O, Brasky KM, Dutton J, Rutherford JN, Coffey LL, Singapuri A, Martin CSS, Chiu CY, Thomas SJ, Modjarrad K, Patterson JL, Blackman MA. Author Correction: Efficacy of an inactivated Zika vaccine against virus infection during pregnancy in mice and marmosets. NPJ Vaccines 2022; 7:99. [PMID: 35987764 PMCID: PMC9392767 DOI: 10.1038/s41541-022-00520-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- In-Jeong Kim
- Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY, 12983, USA.
| | - Paula A. Lanthier
- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.507680.c0000 0001 2230 3166Pilot Bioproduction Facility, Center for Enabling Capabilities, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.185648.60000 0001 2175 0319Department of Human Development Nursing Science, College of Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
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- grid.27860.3b0000 0004 1936 9684Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- grid.27860.3b0000 0004 1936 9684Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- grid.266102.10000 0001 2297 6811Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA ,grid.47840.3f0000 0001 2181 7878Present Address: Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- grid.266102.10000 0001 2297 6811Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA
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- grid.411023.50000 0000 9159 4457Division of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA
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- grid.507680.c0000 0001 2230 3166Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
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- grid.250889.e0000 0001 2215 0219Southwest National Primate Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227 USA
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- grid.250945.f0000 0004 0462 7513Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, NY 12983 USA
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