Development of a T Cell-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Using a Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine Viral Vector

The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020 and has caused an unprecedented burden to all countries in the world. SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate and antigenically evolve, enabling multiple reinfections. To address the issue of the virus antigenic variability, T cell-based vaccines are being developed, which are directed to more conserved viral epitopes. We used live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) virus vector to generate recombinant influenza viruses expressing various T-cell epitopes of SARS-CoV-2 from either neuraminidase (NA) or non-structural (NS1) genes, via the P2A self-cleavage site. Intranasal immunization of human leukocyte antigen-A*0201 (HLA-A2.1) transgenic mice with these recombinant viruses did not result in significant SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell responses, due to the immunodominance of NP366 influenza T-cell epitope. However, side-by-side stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of COVID-19 convalescents with recombinant viruses and LAIV vector demonstrated activation of memory T cells in samples stimulated with LAIV/SARS-CoV-2, but not LAIV alone. Hamsters immunized with a selected LAIV/SARS-CoV-2 prototype were protected against challenge with influenza virus and a high dose of SARS-CoV-2 of Wuhan and Delta lineages, which was confirmed by reduced weight loss, milder clinical symptoms and less pronounced histopathological signs of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lungs, compared to LAIV- and mock-immunized animals. Overall, LAIV is a promising platform for the development of a bivalent vaccine against influenza and SARS-CoV-2.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 10(2022), 7 vom: 18. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Isakova-Sivak, Irina [VerfasserIn]
Stepanova, Ekaterina [VerfasserIn]
Matyushenko, Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Niskanen, Sergei [VerfasserIn]
Mezhenskaya, Daria [VerfasserIn]
Bazhenova, Ekaterina [VerfasserIn]
Krutikova, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Kotomina, Tatiana [VerfasserIn]
Prokopenko, Polina [VerfasserIn]
Neterebskii, Bogdan [VerfasserIn]
Doronin, Aleksandr [VerfasserIn]
Vinogradova, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Yakovlev, Kirill [VerfasserIn]
Sivak, Konstantin [VerfasserIn]
Rudenko, Larisa [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 vaccine
Cross-protection
HLA-A2.1 transgenic mice
Influenza virus vector
Journal Article
Live attenuated influenza vaccine
SARS-CoV-2
Syrian hamsters
T-cell epitopes

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 31.07.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines10071142

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344110982