A Novel Bacterial Protease Inhibitor Adjuvant in RBD-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Formulations Containing Alum Increases Neutralizing Antibodies, Specific Germinal Center B Cells and Confers Protection Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Mice
dc.contributor.author | Coria, Lorena M. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Saposnik, Lucas M. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Pueblas Castro, Celeste | en |
dc.contributor.author | Castro, Eliana F. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Bruno, Laura A. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Stone, William B. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Perez, Paula S. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Darriba, Maria Laura | en |
dc.contributor.author | Chemes, Lucia B. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Alcain, Julieta | en |
dc.contributor.author | Mazzitelli, Ignacio | en |
dc.contributor.author | Varese, Augusto | en |
dc.contributor.author | Salvatori, Melina | en |
dc.contributor.author | Auguste, A. Jonathan | en |
dc.contributor.author | Alvarez, Diego E. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Pasquevich, Karina A. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Cassataro, Juliana | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-21T15:02:16Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2022-07-21T15:02:16Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02-28 | en |
dc.description.abstract | In this work, we evaluated recombinant receptor binding domain (RBD)-based vaccine formulation prototypes with potential for further clinical development. We assessed different formulations containing RBD plus alum, AddaS03, AddaVax, or the combination of alum and U-Omp19: a novel Brucella spp. protease inhibitor vaccine adjuvant. Results show that the vaccine formulation composed of U-Omp19 and alum as adjuvants has a better performance: it significantly increased mucosal and systemic neutralizing antibodies in comparison to antigen plus alum, AddaVax, or AddaS03. Antibodies induced with the formulation containing U-Omp19 and alum not only increased their neutralization capacity against the ancestral virus but also cross-neutralized alpha, lambda, and gamma variants with similar potency. Furthermore, the addition of U-Omp19 to alum vaccine formulation increased the frequency of RBD-specific geminal center B cells and plasmablasts. Additionally, U-Omp19+alum formulation induced RBD-specific Th1 and CD8(+) T-cell responses in spleens and lungs. Finally, this vaccine formulation conferred protection against an intranasal severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) challenge of K18-hACE2 mice. | en |
dc.description.version | Published version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.844837 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-3224 | en |
dc.identifier.other | 844837 | en |
dc.identifier.pmid | 35296091 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/111310 | en |
dc.identifier.volume | 13 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Frontiers | en |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | adjuvant | en |
dc.subject | protease inhibitor | en |
dc.subject | SARS- CoV-2 | en |
dc.subject | U-Omp19 | en |
dc.subject | germinal center cells | en |
dc.title | A Novel Bacterial Protease Inhibitor Adjuvant in RBD-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Formulations Containing Alum Increases Neutralizing Antibodies, Specific Germinal Center B Cells and Confers Protection Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Mice | en |
dc.title.serial | Frontiers in Immunology | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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