Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23613928›Full record

ArticlePloS one2013

Influenza nucleoprotein delivered with aluminium salts protects mice from an influenza A virus that expresses an altered nucleoprotein sequence.

Megan K L Macleod, Alexandria David, Niyun Jin, Laura Noges, Jieru Wang, John W Kappler, Philippa Marrack

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Megan K L MacleodHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America. megan.macleod@glasgow.ac.uk
Alexandria David
Niyun Jin
Laura Noges
Jieru Wang
John W Kappler
Philippa Marrack
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USNational Jewish Health · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

THE REGULATION OF V ALPHA 7 EXPRESSING T CELLSP01AI022295 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI REFAELI, YOSEF · 1985 to 2011
$11.7M
CHARACTERISTICS OF T CELL RECEPTORSR01AI018785 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MARRACK, PHILIPPA C. · 1985 to 2022
$7.3M
Regulation of alveolar epithelial homeostasis in acute lung injuryR01HL113655 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WANG, JIERU · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
CHARACTERISTICS OF T-CELL RECEPTORSR37AI018785 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MARRACK, PHILIPPA C. · 1992 to 2001
$522k
Characteristics of T Cell ReceptorsR56AI018785 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MARRACK, PHILIPPA C. · 2012 to 2012
$410k
IFN-lambda polymorphisms and host response to respiratory viral infections in humR03AI101953 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WANG, JIERU · 2012 to 2013
$159k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL113655NIAID NIH HHS AI-18785NIAID NIH HHS AI-22295NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI022295NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI018785NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI101953NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI018785NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI018785
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza virus poses a difficult challenge for protective immunity. This virus is adept at altering its surface proteins, the proteins that are the targets of neutralizing antibody. Consequently, each year a new vaccine must be developed to combat the current recirculating strains. A universal influenza vaccine that primes specific memory cells that recognise conserved parts of the virus could prove to be effective against both annual influenza variants and newly emergent potentially pandemic strains. Such a vaccine will have to contain a safe and effective adjuvant that can be used in individuals of all ages. We examine protection from viral challenge in mice vaccinated with the nucleoprotein from the PR8 strain of influenza A, a protein that is highly conserved across viral subtypes. Vaccination with nucleoprotein delivered with a universally used and safe adjuvant, composed of insoluble aluminium salts, provides protection against viruses that either express the same or an altered version of nucleoprotein. This protection correlated with the presence of nucleoprotein specific CD8 T cells in the lungs of infected animals at early time points after infection. In contrast, immunization with NP delivered with alum and the detoxified LPS adjuvant, monophosphoryl lipid A, provided some protection to the homologous viral strain but no protection against infection by influenza expressing a variant nucleoprotein. Together, these data point towards a vaccine solution for all influenza A subtypes.

Indexed as

AnimalsB-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleFlow CytometryInfluenza A virusInfluenza VaccinesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNucleoproteinsT-LymphocytesInfluenza VaccinesNucleoproteins

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PMID23613928
PMCPMC3629017
OpenAlexW2122157993

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