Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 S2-only antigen provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge

© 2024. The Author(s)..

Ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) have diminished the effectiveness of therapeutic antibodies and vaccines. Developing a coronavirus vaccine that offers a greater breadth of protection against current and future VOCs would eliminate the need to reformulate COVID-19 vaccines. Here, we rationally engineer the sequence-conserved S2 subunit of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and characterize the resulting S2-only antigens. Structural studies demonstrate that the introduction of interprotomer disulfide bonds can lock S2 in prefusion trimers, although the apex samples a continuum of conformations between open and closed states. Immunization with prefusion-stabilized S2 constructs elicits broadly neutralizing responses against several sarbecoviruses and protects female BALB/c mice from mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 lethal challenge and partially protects female BALB/c mice from mouse-adapted SARS-CoV lethal challenge. These engineering and immunogenicity results should inform the development of next-generation pan-coronavirus therapeutics and vaccines.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 15(2024), 1 vom: 20. Feb., Seite 1553

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hsieh, Ching-Lin [VerfasserIn]
Leist, Sarah R [VerfasserIn]
Miller, Emily Happy [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Powers, John M [VerfasserIn]
Tse, Alexandra L [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Albert [VerfasserIn]
West, Ande [VerfasserIn]
Zweigart, Mark R [VerfasserIn]
Schisler, Jonathan C [VerfasserIn]
Jangra, Rohit K [VerfasserIn]
Chandran, Kartik [VerfasserIn]
Baric, Ralph S [VerfasserIn]
McLellan, Jason S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
Antigens, Viral
COVID-19 Vaccines
Journal Article
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Spike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 22.02.2024

Date Revised 13.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-024-45404-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368687880