Hemagglutinin virus-like particles incorporated with membrane-bound cytokine adjuvants provide protection against homologous and heterologous influenza virus challenge in aged mice

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BACKGROUND: Current influenza vaccines deliver satisfactory results in young people but are less effective in the elderly. Development of vaccines for an ever-increasing aging population has been an arduous challenge due to immunosenescence that impairs the immune response in the aged, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

RESULTS: To potentially enhance vaccine efficacy in the elderly, we investigated the immunogenicity and cross-protection of influenza hemagglutinin virus-like particles (HA-VLP) incorporated with glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored cytokine-adjuvants (GPI-GM-CSF and GPI-IL-12) via protein transfer in aged mice. Lung viral replication against homologous and heterologous influenza viruses was significantly reduced in aged mice after vaccination with cytokine incorporated VLPs (HA-VLP-Cyt) in comparison to HA-VLP alone. Enhanced IFN-γ+CD4+ and IFN-γ+CD8+ T cell responses were also observed in aged mice immunized with HA-VLP-Cyt when compared to HA-VLP alone.

CONCLUSIONS: Cytokine-adjuvanted influenza HA-VLP vaccine induced enhanced protective response against homologous influenza A virus infection in aged mice. Influenza HA-VLP vaccine with GPI-cytokines also induced enhanced T cell responses correlating with better protection against heterologous infection in the absence of neutralizing antibodies. The results suggest that a vaccination strategy using cytokine-adjuvanted influenza HA-VLPs could be used to enhance protection against influenza A virus in the elderly.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Immunity & ageing : I & A - 20(2023), 1 vom: 11. Mai, Seite 20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Park, Bo Ryoung [VerfasserIn]
Bommireddy, Ramireddy [VerfasserIn]
Chung, David Hyunjung [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Ki-Hye [VerfasserIn]
Subbiah, Jeeva [VerfasserIn]
Jung, Yu-Jin [VerfasserIn]
Bhatnagar, Noopur [VerfasserIn]
Pack, Christopher D [VerfasserIn]
Ramachandiran, Sampath [VerfasserIn]
Reddy, Shaker J C [VerfasserIn]
Selvaraj, Periasamy [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Sang-Moo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aged mice
Cross protection
Cytokine adjuvants
GPI-GM-CSF
GPI-IL-12
HA-VLP
Hemagglutinin (HA)
Influenza
Journal Article
T cells
Virus-like particles (HA-VLPs)

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Date Revised 18.07.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12979-023-00344-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356731057