Preparation and pre-clinical evaluation of flagellin-adjuvanted NOM vaccine candidate formulated with Spike protein against SARS-CoV-2 in mouse model

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From December 2019, the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was started as a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The disturbing statistics of SARS-CoV-2 promoted scientists to develop an effective vaccine against this infection. NOM protein is a multi-epitope protein that designed based on Nucleocapsid, ORF3a, and Membrane proteins of SARS-CoV-2. Flagellin is a structural protein that binds to the Toll-like receptor 5 and can enhance the immune response to a particular antigen. In this study, NOM protein as vaccine candidate was linked to the carboxyl and amino terminals of flagellin adjuvant derived from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Dublin. Then, informatics evaluations were performed for both NOM protein and NOM protein linked to flagellin (FNOM). The interaction between the NOM and FNOM proteins with the TLR5 were assessed using docking analysis. The FNOM protein, which compared to the NOM protein, had a more suitable 3D structure and a stronger interaction with TLR5, was selected for experimental study. The FNOM and Spike (S) proteins expressed and then purified by Ni-NTA column as vaccine candidates. For analysis of immune response, anti-FNOM and anti-S proteins total IgG and IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10, IL-22 and IL-17 cytokines were evaluated after vaccination of mice with vaccine candidates. The results indicated that the specific antisera (Total IgG) raised in mice that received FNOM protein formulated with S protein were higher than mice that received FNOM and S proteins alone. Also, IFN-γ and TNF-α levels after the spleen cells stimulation were significantly increased in mice that received the FNOM protein formulated with S protein compared to other groups. Immunogenic evaluations showed that, the FNOM chimeric protein could simultaneously elicit humoral and cell-mediated immune responses. Finally, it could be concluded that the FNOM protein formulated with S protein could be considered as potential vaccine candidate for protection against SARS-CoV-2 in the near future.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:171

Enthalten in:

Microbial pathogenesis - 171(2022) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 105736

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Farshidi, Narges [VerfasserIn]
Ghaedi, Tayebeh [VerfasserIn]
Hassaniazad, Mehdi [VerfasserIn]
Eftekhar, Ebrahim [VerfasserIn]
Gouklani, Hamed [VerfasserIn]
Farshidi, Hossein [VerfasserIn]
Asadi Karam, Mohammad Reza [VerfasserIn]
Shahbazi, Behzad [VerfasserIn]
Kalani, Mehdi [VerfasserIn]
Ahmadi, Khadijeh [VerfasserIn]

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12777-81-0
130068-27-8
Adjuvants, Immunologic
Antibodies, Viral
Cytokine
Docking
ELISA
Epitopes
Flagellin
Immune Sera
Immunoglobulin G
Immunoinformatics
Interleukin-10
Interleukin-17
Interleukin-6
Journal Article
NOM protein
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
SARS-CoV-2
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Spike protein, SARS-CoV-2
Toll-Like Receptor 5
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
Vaccine
Viral Vaccines

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Date Completed 19.09.2022

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105736

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345474902