Mosaic RBD nanoparticles protect against multiple sarbecovirus challenges in animal models

Abstract To combat future SARS-CoV-2 variants and spillovers of SARS-like betacoronaviruses (sarbecoviruses) threatening global health, we designed mosaic nanoparticles presenting randomly-arranged sarbecovirus spike receptor-binding domains (RBDs) to elicit antibodies against conserved/relatively-occluded, rather than variable/immunodominant/exposed, epitopes. We compared immune responses elicited by mosaic-8 (SARS-CoV-2 and seven animal sarbecoviruses) and homotypic (only SARS-CoV-2) RBD-nanoparticles in mice and macaques, observing stronger responses elicited by mosaic-8 to mismatched (not on nanoparticles) strains including SARS-CoV and animal sarbecoviruses. Mosaic-8 immunization showed equivalent neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron and protected from SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV challenges, whereas homotypic SARS-CoV-2 immunization protected only from SARS-CoV-2 challenge. Epitope mapping demonstrated increased targeting of conserved epitopes after mosaic-8 immunization. Together, these results suggest mosaic-8 RBD-nanoparticles could protect against SARS-CoV-2 variants and future sarbecovirus spillovers..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 19. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cohen, Alexander A. [VerfasserIn]
van Doremalen, Neeltje [VerfasserIn]
Greaney, Allison J. [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Hanne [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Ankur [VerfasserIn]
Starr, Tyler N. [VerfasserIn]
Keeffe, Jennifer R. [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Chengcheng [VerfasserIn]
Schulz, Jonathan E. [VerfasserIn]
Gnanapragasam, Priyanthi N.P. [VerfasserIn]
Kakutani, Leesa M. [VerfasserIn]
West, Anthony P [VerfasserIn]
Saturday, Greg [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Yu E. [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Han [VerfasserIn]
Jette, Claudia A. [VerfasserIn]
Lewis, Mark G. [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Tiong K. [VerfasserIn]
Townsend, Alain R. [VerfasserIn]
Bloom, Jesse D. [VerfasserIn]
Munster, Vincent J. [VerfasserIn]
Bjorkman, Pamela J. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.03.25.485875

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI035613629