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Emeritus
Vaccination inducing broad and improved cross protection against multiple subtypes of influenza A virus (PNAS, abstract, edited)
[Source: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, full text: <cite cite="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/2/757.short?rss=1">Vaccination inducing broad and improved cross protection against multiple subtypes of influenza A virus ? PNAS</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Vaccination inducing broad and improved cross protection against multiple subtypes of influenza A virus
1. Jae-Min Song a, 2. Nico Van Rooijen b, 3. Jadranka Bozja c, 4. Richard W. Compans a,1, and 5. Sang-Moo Kang a,1
Author Affiliations
1. a Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322;
2. b Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and
3. c Zetra Biologicals, Tucker, GA 30084
1. Edited by Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, and approved November 15, 2010 (received for review August 17, 2010)
Abstract
Development of an influenza vaccine that provides broadly cross-protective immunity has been a scientific challenge for more than half a century. This study presents an approach to overcome strain-specific protection by supplementing conventional vaccines with virus-like particles (VLPs) containing the conserved M2 protein (M2 VLPs) in the absence of adjuvants. We demonstrate that an inactivated influenza vaccine supplemented with M2 VLPs prevents disease symptoms without showing weight loss and confers complete cross protection against lethal challenge with heterologous influenza A viruses including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus as well as heterosubtypic H3N2 and H5N1 influenza viruses. Cross-protective immunity was long-lived, for more than 7 mo. Immune sera from mice immunized with M2 VLP supplemented vaccine transferred cross protection to naive mice. Dendritic and macrophage cells were found to be important for this cross protection mediated by immune sera. The results provide evidence that supplementation of seasonal influenza vaccines with M2 VLPs is a promising approach for overcoming the limitation of strain-specific protection by current vaccines and developing a universal influenza A vaccine.
* M2 virus-like particles
* supplemental vaccine
Footnotes
* 1 To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: rcompan@emory.edu or skang2@emory.edu.
* Author contributions: J.-M.S. and S.-M.K. designed research; J.-M.S. performed research; N.V.R., J.B., and S.-M.K. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.-M.S. and S.-M.K. analyzed data; and J.-M.S., R.W.C., and S.-M.K. wrote the paper.
* Conflict of interest statement: R.W.C., J.B., J.M.S., and S.-M.K. have patents and equity interests in Zetra Biologicals (Tucker, GA), which is developing VLP technology under license from Emory University (Atlanta, GA).
* This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
* This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1012199108/-/DCSupplemental.
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[Source: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, full text: <cite cite="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/2/757.short?rss=1">Vaccination inducing broad and improved cross protection against multiple subtypes of influenza A virus ? PNAS</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Vaccination inducing broad and improved cross protection against multiple subtypes of influenza A virus
1. Jae-Min Song a, 2. Nico Van Rooijen b, 3. Jadranka Bozja c, 4. Richard W. Compans a,1, and 5. Sang-Moo Kang a,1
Author Affiliations
1. a Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322;
2. b Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and
3. c Zetra Biologicals, Tucker, GA 30084
1. Edited by Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, and approved November 15, 2010 (received for review August 17, 2010)
Abstract
Development of an influenza vaccine that provides broadly cross-protective immunity has been a scientific challenge for more than half a century. This study presents an approach to overcome strain-specific protection by supplementing conventional vaccines with virus-like particles (VLPs) containing the conserved M2 protein (M2 VLPs) in the absence of adjuvants. We demonstrate that an inactivated influenza vaccine supplemented with M2 VLPs prevents disease symptoms without showing weight loss and confers complete cross protection against lethal challenge with heterologous influenza A viruses including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus as well as heterosubtypic H3N2 and H5N1 influenza viruses. Cross-protective immunity was long-lived, for more than 7 mo. Immune sera from mice immunized with M2 VLP supplemented vaccine transferred cross protection to naive mice. Dendritic and macrophage cells were found to be important for this cross protection mediated by immune sera. The results provide evidence that supplementation of seasonal influenza vaccines with M2 VLPs is a promising approach for overcoming the limitation of strain-specific protection by current vaccines and developing a universal influenza A vaccine.
* M2 virus-like particles
* supplemental vaccine
Footnotes
* 1 To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: rcompan@emory.edu or skang2@emory.edu.
* Author contributions: J.-M.S. and S.-M.K. designed research; J.-M.S. performed research; N.V.R., J.B., and S.-M.K. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.-M.S. and S.-M.K. analyzed data; and J.-M.S., R.W.C., and S.-M.K. wrote the paper.
* Conflict of interest statement: R.W.C., J.B., J.M.S., and S.-M.K. have patents and equity interests in Zetra Biologicals (Tucker, GA), which is developing VLP technology under license from Emory University (Atlanta, GA).
* This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
* This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1012199108/-/DCSupplemental.
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