Department of Research and Development, Shanghai Institute of Biological Products, Shanghai, China.
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2023 Dec 31;19(1):2186110. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2023.2186110. Epub 2023 Mar 7.
COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection has an impact on global public health and social economy. The emerging immune escape of SARS-CoV-2 variants pose great challenges to the development of vaccines based on original strains. The development of second-generation COVID-19 vaccines to induce immune responses with broad-spectrum protective effects is a matter of great urgency. Here, a prefusion-stabilized spike (S) trimer protein based on B.1.351 variant was expressed and prepared with CpG7909/aluminum hydroxide dual adjuvant to investigate the immunogenicity in mice. The results showed that the candidate vaccine could induce a significant receptor binding domain-specific antibody response and a substantial interferon-γ-mediated immune response. Furthermore, the candidate vaccine also elicited robust cross-neutralization against the pseudoviruses of the original strain, Beta variant, Delta variant and Omicron variant. The vaccine strategy of S-trimer protein formulated with CpG7909/aluminum hydroxide dual adjuvant may be considered a means to increase vaccine effectiveness against future variants.
由 SARS-CoV-2 感染引起的 COVID-19 大流行对全球公共卫生和社会经济产生了影响。SARS-CoV-2 变体的新兴免疫逃逸对基于原始株的疫苗的发展构成了巨大挑战。开发诱导广谱保护作用的免疫反应的第二代 COVID-19 疫苗是当务之急。在这里,表达了基于 B.1.351 变体的预融合稳定的刺突(S)三聚体蛋白,并与 CpG7909/氢氧化铝双重佐剂一起制备,以研究其在小鼠中的免疫原性。结果表明,候选疫苗可以诱导显著的受体结合域特异性抗体反应和大量干扰素-γ介导的免疫反应。此外,候选疫苗还对原始株、Beta 变体、Delta 变体和奥密克戎变体的假病毒产生了强大的中和作用。用 CpG7909/氢氧化铝双重佐剂配制的 S-三聚体蛋白疫苗策略可能被认为是提高针对未来变体疫苗效力的一种手段。