RRC ID 66180
著者 Maeda DLNF, Tian D, Yu H, Dar N, Rajasekaran V, Meng S, Mahsoub HM, Sooryanarain H, Wang B, Heffron CL, Hassebroek A, LeRoith T, Meng XJ, Zeichner SL.
タイトル Killed whole-genome reduced-bacteria surface-expressed coronavirus fusion peptide vaccines protect against disease in a porcine model.
ジャーナル Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Abstract As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rages on, it is important to explore new evolution-resistant vaccine antigens and new vaccine platforms that can produce readily scalable, inexpensive vaccines with easier storage and transport. We report here a synthetic biology-based vaccine platform that employs an expression vector with an inducible gram-negative autotransporter to express vaccine antigens on the surface of genome-reduced bacteria to enhance interaction of vaccine antigen with the immune system. As a proof-of-principle, we utilized genome-reduced Escherichia coli to express SARS-CoV-2 and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) fusion peptide (FP) on the cell surface, and evaluated their use as killed whole-cell vaccines. The FP sequence is highly conserved across coronaviruses; the six FP core amino acid residues, along with the four adjacent residues upstream and the three residues downstream from the core, are identical between SARS-CoV-2 and PEDV. We tested the efficacy of PEDV FP and SARS-CoV-2 FP vaccines in a PEDV challenge pig model. We demonstrated that both vaccines induced potent anamnestic responses upon virus challenge, potentiated interferon-γ responses, reduced viral RNA loads in jejunum tissue, and provided significant protection against clinical disease. However, neither vaccines elicited sterilizing immunity. Since SARS-CoV-2 FP and PEDV FP vaccines provided similar clinical protection, the coronavirus FP could be a target for a broadly protective vaccine using any platform. Importantly, the genome-reduced bacterial surface-expressed vaccine platform, when using a vaccine-appropriate bacterial vector, has potential utility as an inexpensive, readily manufactured, and rapid vaccine platform for other pathogens.
巻・号 118(18)
公開日 2021-5-4
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2025622118
PII 2025622118
PMID 33858942
PMC PMC8106328
MeSH Animals Antibodies, Viral / blood COVID-19 / prevention & control* COVID-19 Vaccines / immunology* Disease Models, Animal Escherichia coli / genetics Genome, Bacterial Interferon-gamma / blood Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus / immunology* RNA, Viral / analysis SARS-CoV-2 / immunology* Swine Vaccines, Inactivated / immunology Vaccines, Synthetic / immunology Viral Fusion Proteins / immunology* Viral Vaccines / immunology*
IF 9.412
リソース情報
原核生物(大腸菌) MG1655 ME5000 ME5010 ME5119 ME5125