Bioengineered small extracellular vesicles deliver multiple SARS-CoV-2 antigenic fragments and drive a broad immunological response

© 2024 The Authors. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles published by Wiley Periodicals, LLC on behalf of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles..

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the clear risk that zoonotic viruses pose to global health and economies. The scientific community responded by developing several efficacious vaccines which were expedited by the global need for vaccines. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections highlights the need for additional vaccine modalities to provide stronger, long-lived protective immunity. Here we report the design and preclinical testing of small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) as a multi-subunit vaccine. Cell lines were engineered to produce sEVs containing either the SARS-CoV-2 Spike receptor-binding domain, or an antigenic region from SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid, or both in combination, and we tested their ability to evoke immune responses in vitro and in vivo. B cells incubated with bioengineered sEVs were potent activators of antigen-specific T cell clones. Mice immunised with sEVs containing both sRBD and Nucleocapsid antigens generated sRBD-specific IgGs, nucleocapsid-specific IgGs, which neutralised SARS-CoV-2 infection. sEV-based vaccines allow multiple antigens to be delivered simultaneously resulting in potent, broad immunity, and provide a quick, cheap, and reliable method to test vaccine candidates.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Journal of extracellular vesicles - 13(2024), 2 vom: 10. Feb., Seite e12412

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jackson, Hannah K [VerfasserIn]
Long, Heather M [VerfasserIn]
Yam-Puc, Juan Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Palmulli, Roberta [VerfasserIn]
Haigh, Tracey A [VerfasserIn]
Gerber, Pehuén Pereyra [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jin S [VerfasserIn]
Matheson, Nicholas J [VerfasserIn]
Young, Lesley [VerfasserIn]
Trowsdale, John [VerfasserIn]
Lo, Mathew [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Graham S [VerfasserIn]
Thaventhiran, James E [VerfasserIn]
Edgar, James R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigen
Extracellular vesicles
Immune presentation
Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2
Vaccine
Vaccines

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Date Completed 14.02.2024

Date Revised 14.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jev2.12412

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368292584