Induction of cross-neutralizing antibodies by a permuted hepatitis C virus glycoprotein nanoparticle vaccine candidate

oleh: Kwinten Sliepen, Laura Radić, Joan Capella-Pujol, Yasunori Watanabe, Ian Zon, Ana Chumbe, Wen-Hsin Lee, Marlon de Gast, Jelle Koopsen, Sylvie Koekkoek, Iván del Moral-Sánchez, Philip J. M. Brouwer, Rashmi Ravichandran, Gabriel Ozorowski, Neil P. King, Andrew B. Ward, Marit J. van Gils, Max Crispin, Janke Schinkel, Rogier W. Sanders

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01

Deskripsi

E1E2 spike on the hepatitis C virion is an important target for vaccine design. Here, the authors permute the subunits to generate E2E1 immunogens and show that mosaic nanoparticles displaying different E2E1 antigens elicit cross-neutralizing antibodies in rabbits.