Lakhrif Zineb, Poupée-Beaugé Agathe, Boursin Fanny, Ducournau Céline, Lantier Louis, Moiré Nathalie, Carpentier Rodolphe, Rossignol Christelle, Maquart Marianne, Jospin Fabienne, Merat Laetitia, Caul-Futy Mireille, Yazdanpanah Yazdan, Bouakane Amel, Riou Mickael, Touzé Antoine, Eléouët Jean-François, Richard Charles-Adrien, Helle François, Le Poder Sophie, Klonjkowski Bernard, Meunier Nicolas, Zientara Stéphan, Paul Stéphane, Mévélec Marie-Noëlle, Aubrey Nicolas, Epardaud Mathieu, Dimier-Poisson Isabelle
BioMAP, UMR ISP1282 INRAe-Université, Tours, France.
Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1286 - INFINITE - Institute for Translational Research in Inflammation, Lille, France.
NPJ Vaccines. 2025 Apr 18;10(1):75. doi: 10.1038/s41541-025-01123-y.
The effectiveness of intramuscular vaccines aimed at preventing severe COVID-19 remains limited due to waning immunity and the emergence of novel variants. Next-generation vaccines are needed for broader protection and blocking virus transmission. Here, we rationally designed an original nasal subunit vaccine composed of a fusion protein (SwFN) made of Wuhan spike and nucleoprotein combined with biocompatible mucosal nanocarriers (Nc). In mouse model, the nasal Nc-SwFN vaccine elicited multivalent serum and mucosal neutralizing antibodies. Robust spike and nucleoprotein cross-reactive immunity against variants was induced with a predominant phenotype of resident memory T cells in the lungs. Moreover, Nc-SwFN led to protective responses against Wuhan and Delta infection in relevant models with an absence of morbidity, mortality, and virus dissemination in the lungs and brain. Finally, Nc-SwFN drastically reduced host-to-host transmission. These promising results underscore the advantages of the nasal Nc-SwFN approach as a broad-spectrum vaccine candidate against current and emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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