Intranasal delivery of a rationally attenuated SARS-CoV-2 is immunogenic and protective in Syrian hamsters

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Few live attenuated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines are in pre-clinical or clinical development. We seek to attenuate SARS-CoV-2 (isolate WA1/2020) by removing the polybasic insert within the spike protein and the open reading frames (ORFs) 6-8, and by introducing mutations that abolish non-structural protein 1 (Nsp1)-mediated toxicity. The derived virus (WA1-ΔPRRA-ΔORF6-8-Nsp1K164A/H165A) replicates to 100- to 1000-fold-lower titers than the ancestral virus and induces little lung pathology in both K18-human ACE2 (hACE2) transgenic mice and Syrian hamsters. Immunofluorescence and transcriptomic analyses of infected hamsters confirm that three-pronged genetic modifications attenuate the proinflammatory pathways more than the removal of the polybasic cleavage site alone. Finally, intranasal administration of just 100 PFU of the WA1-ΔPRRA-ΔORF6-8-Nsp1K164A/H165A elicits robust antibody responses in Syrian hamsters and protects against SARS-CoV-2-induced weight loss and pneumonia. As a proof-of-concept study, we demonstrate that live but sufficiently attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may be attainable by rational design.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 13(2022), 1 vom: 10. Nov., Seite 6792

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Shufeng [VerfasserIn]
Stauft, Charles B [VerfasserIn]
Selvaraj, Prabhuanand [VerfasserIn]
Chandrasekaran, Prabha [VerfasserIn]
D'Agnillo, Felice [VerfasserIn]
Chou, Chao-Kai [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Wells W [VerfasserIn]
Lien, Christopher Z [VerfasserIn]
Meseda, Clement A [VerfasserIn]
Pedro, Cyntia L [VerfasserIn]
Starost, Matthew F [VerfasserIn]
Weir, Jerry P [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tony T [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 Vaccines
Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Spike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 14.11.2022

Date Revised 26.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-022-34571-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348710283