Design, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a pan-sarbecovirus dendritic-cell targeting vaccine - Mission Inria Covid19
Article Dans Une Revue EBioMedicine Année : 2022

Design, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a pan-sarbecovirus dendritic-cell targeting vaccine

Ana Zarubica

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BackgroundThere is an urgent need of a new generation of vaccine that are able to enhance protection against SARS-CoV-2 and related variants of concern (VOC) and emerging coronaviruses.MethodsWe identified conserved T- and B-cell epitopes from Spike (S) and Nucleocapsid (N) highly homologous to 38 sarbecoviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 VOCs, to design a protein subunit vaccine targeting antigens to Dendritic Cells (DC) via CD40 surface receptor (CD40.CoV2).FindingsCD40.CoV2 immunization elicited high levels of cross-neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, VOCs, and SARS-CoV-1 in K18-hACE2 transgenic mice, associated with viral control and survival after SARS-CoV-2 challenge. A direct comparison of CD40.CoV2 with the mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine showed that the two vaccines were equally immunogenic in mice. We demonstrated the potency of CD40.CoV2 to recall in vitro human multi-epitope, functional, and cytotoxic SARS-CoV-2 S- and N-specific T-cell responses that are unaffected by VOC mutations and cross-reactive with SARS-CoV-1 and, to a lesser extent, MERS epitopes.InterpretationWe report the immunogenicity and antiviral efficacy of the CD40.CoV2 vaccine in a preclinical model providing a framework for a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine.FundingsThis work was supported by INSERM and the Investissements d'Avenir program, Vaccine Research Institute (VRI), managed by the ANR and the CARE project funded from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU).
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hal-03692817 , version 1 (22-07-2024)

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Séverin Coléon, Aurélie Wiedemann, Mathieu Surénaud, Christine Lacabaratz, Sophie Hue, et al.. Design, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a pan-sarbecovirus dendritic-cell targeting vaccine. EBioMedicine, 2022, 80, pp.104062. ⟨10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104062⟩. ⟨hal-03692817⟩
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