Generation of influenza A viruses as live but replication-incompetent virus vaccines
Generation of influenza A viruses as live but replication-incompetent virus vaccines
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产生甲型流感病毒作为活的但无法复制的病毒疫苗。
DOI:
10.1126/science.aah5869
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发表时间:
2016-12-02
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
Zhou, Demin
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作者:
Si, Longlong;Xu, Huan;Zhou, Demin
Genetic code expansion and orthogonal translation machinery are used to generate live, attenuated viral vaccines. Protecting by changing the code Live attenuated vaccines can be very potent, but their potential to revert to their pathogenic form limits their use. In an attempt to get around this, Si et al. expanded the genetic code of influenza A viruses. They propagated viruses that were mutated to encode premature termination codons (PTCs) in a cell line engineered to be able to express these flu proteins. Despite not being able to replicate in conventional cells, PTC-containing viruses were highly immunogenic and protected mice, guinea pigs, and ferrets against influenza challenge. Science, this issue p. 1170 The conversion of life-threatening viruses into live but avirulent vaccines represents a revolution in vaccinology. In a proof-of-principle study, we expanded the genetic code of the genome of influenza A virus via a transgenic cell line containing orthogonal translation machinery. This generated premature termination codon (PTC)–harboring viruses that exerted full infectivity but were replication-incompetent in conventional cells. Genome-wide optimization of the sites for incorporation of multiple PTCs resulted in highly reproductive and genetically stable progeny viruses in transgenic cells. In mouse, ferret, and guinea pig models, vaccination with PTC viruses elicited robust humoral, mucosal, and T cell–mediated immunity against antigenically distinct influenza viruses and even neutralized existing infecting strains. The methods presented here may become a general approach for generating live virus vaccines that can be adapted to almost any virus.