A nasal omicron vaccine booster elicits potent neutralizing antibody response against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

SARS-CoV-2 has caused the COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020. As of January 2022, the worldwide spreading of SARS-CoV-2 leads to approximately 0.35 billion of human infections and five millions of deaths. Current vaccination is one of the effective ways to control SARS-CoV-2 transmission and reduce the disease severity. However, the antibody level against the immunogen significantly drops several months after the standard two-dose vaccination, and hence a third or fourth dose booster (the same immunogen) has been suggested to boost the antibody response. Here, we described an ultra-effective nasal vaccine booster that potently induced the extraordinary high-level of neutralizing antibody in pre-vaccinated mice. The vaccine booster is composed of a recombinant receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike (either wild-type or omicron) fused with a domain of SARS-CoV-2 nucleoprotein. In the absence of adjuvants, a single intranasal administration of the booster in pre-vaccinated mice significantly induced systemic and mucosal antibody responses as evidenced by the elevation of the cross-variant neutralizing antibody and induction of IgA in bronchoalveolar lavage respectively. Most importantly, the single dose nasal vaccine booster (omicron version) potently enhanced the neutralizing activity against authentic SARS-CoV-2 omicron virus infection. Taken together, the induction of respiratory mucosal immunity and the enhancement of cross-variant neutralizing activity by the nasal vaccine booster warrants further clinical trials in humans.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Emerging microbes & infections - 11(2022), 1 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 964-967

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lam, Joy-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Yau-Yee [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Chun-Kit [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Wan-Man [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Kwok-Yung [VerfasserIn]
Kok, Kin-Hang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines
Delta variant
Letter
Nasal protein vaccine booster
Omicron variant
SARS-CoV-2
Vaccines

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Date Completed 01.04.2022

Date Revised 03.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/22221751.2022.2053365

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338058532