Antibodies generated<i>in vitro</i>and<i>in vivo</i>elucidate design of a thermostable ADDomer COVID-19 nasal nanoparticle vaccine

Abstract COVID-19 continues to damage populations, communities and economies worldwide. Vaccines have reduced COVID-19-related hospitalisations and deaths, primarily in developed countries. Persisting infection rates, and highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOCs) causing repeat and breakthrough infections, underscore the ongoing need for new treatments to achieve a global solution. Based on ADDomer, a self-assembling protein nanoparticle scaffold, we created ADDoCoV, a thermostable COVID-19 candidate vaccine displaying multiple copies of a SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding motif (RBM)-derived epitope.In vitrogenerated neutralising nanobodies combined with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) established authenticity and accessibility of the epitopes displayed. A Gigabody comprising multimerized nanobodies prevented SARS-CoV-2 virion attachment with picomolar EC50. Antibodies generated by immunising mice cross-reacted with VOCs including Delta and Omicron. Our study elucidates nasal administration of ADDomer-based nanoparticles for active and passive immunisation against SARS-CoV-2 and provides a blueprint for designing nanoparticle reagents to combat respiratory viral infections..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 09. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Buzas, Dora [VerfasserIn]
Bunzel, H Adrian [VerfasserIn]
Staufer, Oskar [VerfasserIn]
Milodowski, Emily J [VerfasserIn]
Edmunds, Grace L [VerfasserIn]
Bufton, Joshua C [VerfasserIn]
Vidana Mateo, Beatriz V [VerfasserIn]
Yadav, Sathish K N [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Kapil [VerfasserIn]
Fletcher, Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
Kavanagh Williamson, Maia [VerfasserIn]
Harrison, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Borucu, Ufuk [VerfasserIn]
Capin, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Francis, Ore [VerfasserIn]
Balchin, Georgia [VerfasserIn]
Hall, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Vivoli Vega, Mirella [VerfasserIn]
Durbesson, Fabien [VerfasserIn]
Vincentelli, Renaud [VerfasserIn]
Roe, Joe [VerfasserIn]
Wooldridge, Linda [VerfasserIn]
Burt, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, J L Ross [VerfasserIn]
Mulholland, Adrian J [VerfasserIn]
Hare, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Bailey, Mick [VerfasserIn]
Davidson, Andrew D [VerfasserIn]
Finn, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Morgan, David [VerfasserIn]
Mann, Jamie [VerfasserIn]
Spatz, Joachim [VerfasserIn]
Garzoni, Frederic [VerfasserIn]
Schaffitzel, Christiane [VerfasserIn]
Berger, Imre [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.03.17.533092

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XBI038996065