Development of a multi-antigenic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate using a synthetic poxvirus platform

oleh: Flavia Chiuppesi, Marcela d’Alincourt Salazar, Heidi Contreras, Vu H. Nguyen, Joy Martinez, Yoonsuh Park, Jenny Nguyen, Mindy Kha, Angelina Iniguez, Qiao Zhou, Teodora Kaltcheva, Roman Levytskyy, Nancy D. Ebelt, Tae Hyuk Kang, Xiwei Wu, Thomas F. Rogers, Edwin R. Manuel, Yuriy Shostak, Don J. Diamond, Felix Wussow

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-11-01

Deskripsi

Chiuppesi et al. demonstrate the use of a synthetic poxvirus-based platform to rapidly generate multi-antigenic vaccine candidates expressing spike and nucleocapsid antigens of SARS-CoV-2. Immunization of mice stimulates potent antigen-specific humoral and cellular immune responses, including neutralizing antibodies.