Cited by 253SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchAnimal Virus Infections Studiesvaccines and immunoinformatics approaches

Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses

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Saunders, Kevin O., Lee, Esther, Parks, Robert, Martinez, David R., Li, Dapeng, Chen, Haiyan, Edwards, Robert J., Gobeil, Sophie +41 more·2021·Nature

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Betacoronaviruses caused the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome, as well as the current pandemic of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)1-4. Vaccines that elicit protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and betacoronaviruses that circulate in animals have the potential to prevent future pandemics. Here we show that the immunization of macaques with nanoparticles conjugated with the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2, and adjuvanted with 3M-052 and alum, elicits cross-neutralizing antibody responses against bat coronaviruses, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (including the B.1.1.7, P.1 and B.1.351 variants). Vaccination of macaques with these nanoparticles resulted in a 50% inhibitory reciprocal serum dilution (ID 50) neutralization titre of 47,216 (geometric mean) for SARS-CoV-2, as well as in protection against SARS-CoV-2 in the upper and lower respiratory tracts. Nucleoside-modified mRNAs that encode a stabilized transmembrane spike or monomeric receptor-binding domain also induced cross-neutralizing antibody responses against SARS-CoV and bat coronaviruses, albeit at lower titres than achieved with the nanoparticles. These results demonstrate that current mRNA-based vaccines may provide some protection from future outbreaks of zoonotic betacoronaviruses, and provide a multimeric protein platform for the further development of vaccines against multiple (or all) betacoronaviruses.

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Saunders, K. O., Lee, E., Parks, R., Martinez, D. R., Li, D., Chen, H., Edwards, R. J., Gobeil, S., Barr, M., Mansouri, K., Alam, S. M., Sutherland, L. L., Cai, F., Sanzone, A. M., Berry, M., Manne, K., Bock, K. W., Minai, M., Nagata, B. M., Kapingidza, A. B., Azoitei, M., Tse, L. V., Scobey, T. D., Spreng, R. L., Rountree, R. W., DeMarco, C. T., Denny, T. N., Woods, C. W., Petzold, E. W., Tang, J., Oguin, T. H., Sempowski, G. D., Gagne, M., Douek, D. C., Tomai, M. A., Fox, C. B., Seder, R., Wiehe, K., Weissman, D., Pardi, N., Golding, H., Khurana, S., Acharya, P., Andersen, H., Lewis, M. G., Moore, I. N., Montefiori, D. C., Baric, R. S., & Haynes, B. F.
Affiliations
  • Duke University (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • Duke Medical Center (US)
  • Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (US)
  • 3M (United States) (US)
  • Infectious Disease Research Institute (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Bioqual (US)
Corresponding author
  • Saunders, Kevin O.
  • Haynes, Barton F.
Venue
Nature
Published
2021-05-10
Volume
594
Issue
7864
Pages
553-559
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W3161032756
Cited by
253
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 87 · 2021: 50
FWCI
16.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • ImmPort
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • North Carolina General Assembly
  • National Institutes of Health (1f32ai152296-01a1, USA-WA1/2020, AI142596, U42OD021458, P40OD012217)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (HR0011‐17‐2‐0069)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • National Cancer Institute (U54CA260543)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI157155, AI152296, F32 AI152296, UC6AI058607, U19AI142596, T32AI007151)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2, betacoronaviruses, neutralizing antibodies, nanoparticle vaccine, receptor binding domain, alum adjuvant, SARS-CoV, bat coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 variants, pan-coronavirus vaccine, mRNA vaccines, zoonotic coronaviruses
MeSH terms
Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Vaccines, Adjuvants, Immunologic, Administration, Intranasal, Animals, Common Cold, Cross Reactions, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Humans, Macaca, Male, Models, Molecular, Trachea, Vaccination, Viral Vaccines, Nanoparticles, Antibodies, Neutralizing, Pandemics, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus

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