Conserved T-cell epitopes of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) delivered by recombinant live attenuated influenza vaccine viruses efficiently induce RSV-specific lung-localized memory T cells and augment influenza-specific resident memory T-cell responses

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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can cause recurrent infection in people because it does not stimulate a long-lived immunological memory. There is an urgent need to develop a safe and efficacious vaccine against RSV that would induce immunological memory without causing immunopathology following natural RSV infection. We have previously generated two recombinant live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) viruses that encode immunodominant T-cell epitopes of RSV M2 protein in the neuraminidase or NS1 genes. These chimeric vaccines afforded protection against influenza and RSV infection in mice, without causing pulmonary eosinophilia or inflammatory RSV disease. The current study assessed the formation of influenza-specific and RSV-specific CD4 and CD8 T-cell responses in the lungs of mice, with special attention to the lung tissue-resident memory T cell subsets (TRM). The RSV epitopes did not affect influenza-specific CD4 effector memory T cell (Tem) levels in the lungs. The majority of these cells formed by LAIV or LAIV-RSV viruses had CD69+CD103- phenotype. Both LAIV+NA/RSV and LAIV+NS/RSV recombinant viruses induced significant levels of RSV M282 epitope-specific lung-localized CD8 Tem cells expressing both CD69 and CD103 TRM markers. Surprisingly, the CD69+CD103+ influenza-specific CD8 Tem responses were augmented by the addition of RSV epitopes, possibly as a result of the local microenvironment formed by the RSV-specific memory T cells differentiating to TRM in the lungs of mice immunized with LAIV-RSV chimeric viruses. This study provides evidence that LAIV vector-based vaccination can induce robust lung-localized T-cell immunity to the inserted T-cell epitope of a foreign pathogen, without altering the immunogenicity of the viral vector itself.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:182

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Antiviral research - 182(2020) vom: 01. Okt., Seite 104864

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Matyushenko, Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Kotomina, Tatiana [VerfasserIn]
Kudryavtsev, Igor [VerfasserIn]
Mezhenskaya, Daria [VerfasserIn]
Prokopenko, Polina [VerfasserIn]
Matushkina, Anastasia [VerfasserIn]
Sivak, Konstantin [VerfasserIn]
Muzhikyan, Arman [VerfasserIn]
Rudenko, Larisa [VerfasserIn]
Isakova-Sivak, Irina [VerfasserIn]

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Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
Influenza Vaccines
Journal Article
Live attenuated influenza vaccine
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Respiratory syncytial virus
T cell immunity
Tissue-resident memory T cells
Vaccines, Attenuated
Viral vector

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Date Completed 12.07.2021

Date Revised 12.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104864

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NLM311636535