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Sci Transl Med: Vaccine-Induced Anti-HA2 Antibodies Promote Virus Fusion and Enhance Influenza Virus Respiratory Disease

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Sci Transl Med 28 August 2013:
Vol. 5, Issue 200, p. 200ra114
Sci. Transl. Med. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006366

Research Article

Influenza
Vaccine-Induced Anti-HA2 Antibodies Promote Virus Fusion and Enhance Influenza Virus Respiratory Disease

Surender Khurana1,
Crystal L. Loving2,
Jody Manischewitz1,
Lisa R. King1,
Phillip C. Gauger3,
Jamie Henningson4,
Amy L. Vincent2,* and
Hana Golding1,*

+ Author Affiliations

1Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
2Virus and Prion Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA 50010, USA.
3Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Ames, IA 50010, USA.
4Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: hana.golding@fda.hhs.gov (H.G.); Amy.Vincent@ars.usda.gov (A.L.V.)

Abstract

Vaccine-induced disease enhancement has been described in connection with several viral vaccines in animal models and in humans. We investigated a swine model to evaluate mismatched influenza vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease (VAERD) after pH1N1 infection. Vaccinating pigs with whole inactivated H1N2 (human-like) virus vaccine (WIV-H1N2) resulted in enhanced pneumonia and disease after pH1N1 infection. WIV-H1N2 immune sera contained high titers of cross-reactive anti-pH1N1 hemagglutinin (HA) antibodies that bound exclusively to the HA2 domain but not to the HA1 globular head. No hemagglutination inhibition titers against pH1N1 (challenge virus) were measured. Epitope mapping using phage display library identified the immunodominant epitope recognized by WIV-H1N2 immune sera as amino acids 32 to 77 of pH1N1-HA2 domain, close to the fusion peptide. These cross-reactive anti-HA2 antibodies enhanced pH1N1 infection of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells by promoting virus membrane fusion activity. The enhanced fusion activity correlated with lung pathology in pigs. This study suggests a role for fusion-enhancing anti-HA2 antibodies in VAERD, in the absence of receptor-blocking virus-neutralizing antibodies. These findings should be considered during the evaluation of universal influenza vaccines designed to elicit HA2 stem-targeting antibodies.

Copyright ? 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Citation: S. Khurana, C. L. Loving, J. Manischewitz, L. R. King, P. C. Gauger, J. Henningson, A. L. Vincent, H. Golding, Vaccine-Induced Anti-HA2 Antibodies Promote Virus Fusion and Enhance Influenza Virus Respiratory Disease. Sci. Transl. Med. 5, 200ra114 (2013).



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Re: Sci Transl Med: Vaccine-Induced Anti-HA2 Antibodies Promote Virus Fusion and Enhance Influenza Virus Respiratory Disease

Sci Transl Med 28 August 2013:
Vol. 5, Issue 200, p. 200fs34
Sci. Transl. Med. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007118

Focus

VIRAL INFECTION
Universal Flu Vaccines: Primum non nocere

James E. Crowe Jr.

+ Author Affiliations

Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.

E-mail: james.crowe@vanderbilt.edu

Abstract

Envisioning universal influenza vaccines that induce antibodies to conserved viral epitopes is exciting, but first we need to better understand the balance of effects caused by neutralizing and nonneutralizing antibodies (Khurana et al., this issue).

Copyright ? 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Citation: J. E. Crowe, Universal Flu Vaccines: Primum non nocere. Sci. Transl. Med. 5, 200fs34 (2013).


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