Mary Wilson
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bioRxiv is receiving many new papers on coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. A reminder: these are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. They should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or be reported in news media as established information.
Weina Sun, Stephen McCroskery, Wen-Chun Liu, Sarah R. Leist, Yonghong Liu, Randy A. Albrecht, Stefan Slamanig, Justine Oliva, Fatima Amanat, Alexandra Schaefer, Kenneth H. Dinnon III, Bruce L. Innis, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Florian Krammer, Ralph S. Baric, Peter Palese
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.30.229120
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review
Abstract
A successful SARS-CoV-2 vaccine must be not only safe and protective but must also meet the demand on a global scale at low cost. Using the current influenza virus vaccine production capacity to manufacture an egg-based inactivated Newcastle disease virus (NDV)/SARS-CoV-2 vaccine would meet that challenge. Here, we report pre-clinical evaluations of an inactivated NDV chimera stably expressing the membrane-anchored form of the spike (NDV-S) as a potent COVID-19 vaccine in mice and hamsters. The inactivated NDV-S vaccine was immunogenic, inducing strong binding and/or neutralizing antibodies in both animal models. More importantly, the inactivated NDV-S vaccine protected animals from SARS-CoV-2 infections or significantly attenuated SARS-CoV-2 induced disease. In the presence of an adjuvant, antigen-sparing could be achieved, which would further reduce the cost while maintaining the protective efficacy of the vaccine.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.30.229120v1.full.pdf+html
Weina Sun, Stephen McCroskery, Wen-Chun Liu, Sarah R. Leist, Yonghong Liu, Randy A. Albrecht, Stefan Slamanig, Justine Oliva, Fatima Amanat, Alexandra Schaefer, Kenneth H. Dinnon III, Bruce L. Innis, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Florian Krammer, Ralph S. Baric, Peter Palese
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.30.229120
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review
Abstract
A successful SARS-CoV-2 vaccine must be not only safe and protective but must also meet the demand on a global scale at low cost. Using the current influenza virus vaccine production capacity to manufacture an egg-based inactivated Newcastle disease virus (NDV)/SARS-CoV-2 vaccine would meet that challenge. Here, we report pre-clinical evaluations of an inactivated NDV chimera stably expressing the membrane-anchored form of the spike (NDV-S) as a potent COVID-19 vaccine in mice and hamsters. The inactivated NDV-S vaccine was immunogenic, inducing strong binding and/or neutralizing antibodies in both animal models. More importantly, the inactivated NDV-S vaccine protected animals from SARS-CoV-2 infections or significantly attenuated SARS-CoV-2 induced disease. In the presence of an adjuvant, antigen-sparing could be achieved, which would further reduce the cost while maintaining the protective efficacy of the vaccine.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.30.229120v1.full.pdf+html