Resurfaced ZIKV EDIII nanoparticle immunogens elicit neutralizing and protective responses in vivo

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Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus that can cause severe disease, but there are no approved treatments or vaccines. A complication for flavivirus vaccine development is the potential of immunogens to enhance infection via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), a process mediated by poorly neutralizing and cross-reactive antibodies. Thus, there is a great need to develop immunogens that minimize the potential to elicit enhancing antibodies. Here we utilized structure-based protein engineering to develop "resurfaced" (rs) ZIKV immunogens based on E glycoprotein domain III (ZDIIIs), in which epitopes bound by variably neutralizing antibodies were masked by combinatorial mutagenesis. We identified one resurfaced ZDIII immunogen (rsZDIII-2.39) that elicited a protective but immune-focused response. Compared to wild type ZDIII, immunization with resurfaced rsZDIII-2.39 protein nanoparticles produced fewer numbers of ZIKV EDIII antigen-reactive B cells and elicited serum that had a lower magnitude of induced ADE against dengue virus serotype 1 (DENV1) Our findings enhance our understanding of the structural and functional determinants of antibody protection against ZIKV.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Cell chemical biology - 29(2022), 5 vom: 19. Mai, Seite 811-823.e7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Georgiev, George I [VerfasserIn]
Malonis, Ryan J [VerfasserIn]
Wirchnianski, Ariel S [VerfasserIn]
Wessel, Alex W [VerfasserIn]
Jung, Helen S [VerfasserIn]
Cahill, Sean M [VerfasserIn]
Nyakatura, Elisabeth K [VerfasserIn]
Vergnolle, Olivia [VerfasserIn]
Dowd, Kimberly A [VerfasserIn]
Cowburn, David [VerfasserIn]
Pierson, Theodore C [VerfasserIn]
Diamond, Michael S [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Jonathan R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
Combinatorial mutagenesis
DENV
Flavivirus
Immune focusing
Immunogen resurfacing
Journal Article
Nanoparticle
Phage display
Protein engineering
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Vaccine
Viral Envelope Proteins
ZIKV

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.05.2022

Date Revised 20.05.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chembiol.2022.02.004

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337627061