The T-cell-directed vaccine BNT162b4 encoding conserved non-spike antigens protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The T-cell-directed vaccine BNT162b4 encoding conserved non-spike antigens protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.007
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2023-05-25
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
Poran, Asaf
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Arieta, Christina M.;Xie, Yushu Joy;Rothenberg, Daniel A.;Diao, Huitian;Harjanto, Dewi;Meda, Shirisha;Marquart, Krisann;Koenitzer, Byron;Sciuto, Tracey E.;Lobo, Alexander;Zuiani, Adam;Krumm, Stefanie A.;Couto, Carla Iris Cadima;Hein, Stephanie;Heinen, Andre P.;Ziegenhals, Thomas;Liu-Lupo, Yunpeng;Vogel, Annette B.;Srouji, John R.;Fesser, Stephanie;Thanki, Kaushik;Walzer, Kerstin;Addona, Theresa A.;Tureci, Ozlem;Sahin, Ugur;Gaynor, Richard B.;Poran, Asaf
T cell responses play an important role in protection against beta-coronavirus infections, including SARS-CoV-2, where they associate with decreased COVID-19 disease severity and duration. To enhance T cell immunity across epitopes infrequently altered in SARS-CoV-2 variants, we designed BNT162b4, an mRNA vaccine component that is intended to be combined with BNT162b2, the spike-protein-encoding vaccine. BNT162b4 encodes variant-conserved, immunogenic segments of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid, membrane, and ORF1ab proteins, targeting diverse HLA alleles. BNT162b4 elicits polyfunctional CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to diverse epitopes in animal models, alone or when co-administered with BNT162b2 while preserving spike-specific immunity. Importantly, we demonstrate that BNT162b4 protects hamsters from severe disease and reduces viral titers following challenge with viral variants. These data suggest that a combination of BNT162b2 and BNT162b4 could reduce COVID-19 disease severity and duration caused by circulating or future variants. BNT162b4 is currently being clinically evaluated in combination with the BA.4/BA.5 Omicron-updated bivalent BNT162b2 (NCT05541861). Adding non-spike targeting components to mRNA vaccination elicits promising T cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 variant strains in rodent models of COVID-19.
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