A live attenuated influenza virus-vectored intranasal COVID-19 vaccine provides rapid, prolonged, and broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection

Abstract Remarkable progress has been made in developing intramuscular vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); however, they are limited with respect to eliciting local immunity in the respiratory tract, which is the primary infection site for SARS-CoV-2. To overcome the limitations of intramuscular vaccines, we constructed a nasal vaccine candidate based on an influenza vector by inserting a gene encoding the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, named CA4-dNS1-nCoV-RBD (dNS1-RBD). A preclinical study showed that in hamsters challenged 1 day and 7 days after single-dose vaccination or 6 months after booster vaccination, dNS1-RBD largely mitigated lung pathology, with no loss of body weight, caused by either the prototype-like strain or beta variant of SARS-CoV-2. Lasted data showed that the animals could be well protected against beta variant challenge 9 months after vaccination. Notably, the weight loss and lung pathological changes of hamsters could still be significantly reduced when the hamster was vaccinated 24 h after challenge. Moreover, such cellular immunity is relatively unimpaired for the most concerning SARS-CoV-2 variants. The protective immune mechanism of dNS1-RBD could be attributed to the innate immune response in the nasal epithelium, local RBD-specific T cell response in the lung, and RBD-specific IgA and IgG response. Thus, this study demonstrates that the intranasally delivered dNS1-RBD vaccine candidate may offer an important addition to fight against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, compensating limitations of current intramuscular vaccines, particularly at the start of an outbreak..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 28. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Junyu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Pui [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Lunzhi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Limin [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Congjie [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yaode [VerfasserIn]
Han, Jinle [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Jizong [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Junping [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Liqiang [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Changfa [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Zicen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Rirong [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Minping [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Ruoyao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xijing [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Min [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Zhuang, Chunlan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaohui [VerfasserIn]
Han, Qiangyuan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Guosong [VerfasserIn]
Su, Yingying [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Quan [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Tong [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Xiangzhong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Changgui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Tianying [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Huachen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yixin [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Honglin [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Ningshao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2021.11.13.468472

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XBI033028729