ChAdOx1 COVID vaccines express RBD open prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spikes on the cell surface

Abstract Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been proven to be an effective means of decreasing COVID-19 mortality, hospitalization rates, and transmission. One of the vaccines deployed worldwide is ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, which uses an adenovirus vector to drive the expression of the original SARS-CoV-2 spike on the surface of transduced cells. Using cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging, we determined the native structures of the vaccine product expressed on cell surfacesin situ. We show that ChAdOx1-vectored vaccines expressing the Beta SARS-CoV-2 variant produce abundant native prefusion spikes predominantly in one-RBD-up conformation. Furthermore, the ChAdOx1 vectored HexaPro stabilized spike yields higher cell surface expression, enhanced RBD exposure, and reduced shedding of S1 compared to the wild-type. We demonstratein situstructure determination as a powerful means for studying antigen design options in future vaccine development against emerging novel SARS-CoV-2 variants and broadly against other infectious viruses..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ni, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Mendonça, Luiza [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Yanan [VerfasserIn]
Howe, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Radecke, Julika [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Pranav M. [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Yuewen [VerfasserIn]
Krebs, Anna-Sophia [VerfasserIn]
Duyvesteyn, Helen M. E. [VerfasserIn]
Allen, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
Lambe, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Bisset, Cameron [VerfasserIn]
Spencer, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Morris, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Stuart, David I. [VerfasserIn]
Gilbert, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Peijun [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.05.22.541685

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XBI039678717