RBD-homodimer, a COVID-19 subunit vaccine candidate, elicits immunogenicity and protection in rodents and nonhuman primates

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作者
Pan, Xiaoyan [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Shi, Jian [4 ]
Hu, Xue [1 ,3 ]
Wu, Yan [1 ]
Zeng, Liang [4 ]
Yao, Yanfeng [3 ]
Shang, Weijuan [1 ]
Liu, Kunpeng [1 ,2 ]
Gao, Ge [3 ]
Guo, Weiwei [1 ,2 ]
Peng, Yun [3 ]
Chen, Shaohong [1 ]
Gao, Xiaoxiao [3 ]
Peng, Cheng [3 ]
Rao, Juhong [1 ,2 ]
Zhao, Jiaxuan [1 ,2 ]
Gong, Cheng [4 ]
Zhou, Hui [4 ]
Lu, Yudong [4 ]
Wang, Zili [4 ]
Hu, Xiliang [4 ]
Cong, WenJuan [4 ]
Fang, Lijuan [4 ]
Yan, Yongxiang [4 ]
Zhang, Jing [4 ]
Xiong, Hui [4 ]
Yi, Jizu [4 ]
Yuan, Zhiming [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Zhou, Pengfei [4 ]
Shan, Chao [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Xiao, Gengfu [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Wuhan Inst Virol, State Key Lab Virol, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Biosafety Megasci, Wuhan Inst Virol, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China
[4] Wuhan YZY Biopharma Co Ltd, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China
基金
国家重点研发计划;
关键词
SARS-COV-2;
D O I
10.1038/s41421-021-00320-y
中图分类号
Q2 [细胞生物学];
学科分类号
071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The pandemic of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has raised a new challenges to the scientific and industrious fields after over 1-year spread across different countries. The ultimate approach to end the pandemic is the timely application of vaccines to achieve herd immunity. Here, a novel SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) homodimer was developed as a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate. Formulated with aluminum adjuvant, RBD dimer elicited strong immune response in both rodents and non-human primates, and protected mice from SARS-CoV-2 challenge with significantly reducing viral load and alleviating pathological injury in the lung. In the non-human primates, the vaccine could prevent majority of the animals from SARS-CoV-2 infection in the respiratory tract and reduce lung damage. In addition, antibodies elicited by this vaccine candidate showed cross-neutralization activities to SARS-CoV-2 variants. Furthermore, with our expression system, we provided a high-yield RBD homodimer vaccine without additional biosafety or special transport device supports. Thus, it may serve as a safe, effective, and low-cost SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate.
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