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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2013

Low immunogenicity predicted for emerging avian-origin H7N9: implication for influenza vaccine design.

Anne S De Groot, Matthew Ardito, Frances Terry, Lauren Levitz, Ted Ross, Leonard Moise, William Martin

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Anne S De GrootInstitute for Immunology and Informatics; University of Rhode Island; Providence, RI USA; EpiVax, Inc.; Providence, RI USA.
Matthew Ardito
Frances Terry
Lauren Levitz
Ted Ross
Leonard Moise
William Martin
EpiVax (United States) · USProvidence College · USUniversity of Rhode Island · USVaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida · US

Funding

TRIAD Scientific Core: TRIAD ToolkitU19AI082642 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND · PI PAQUETTE, GREGORY · 2009 to 2013
$13.0M
Novel H1N1 influenza protection via cross-reactive immunityR21AI090359 · NIAID · EPIVAX, INC. · PI DEGROOT, ANNE SEARLS · 2011 to 2012
$472k
NIAID NIH HHS AI082642NIAID NIH HHS AI090359NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI090359NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI082642
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A new avian-origin influenza virus emerged near Shanghai in February 2013, and by the beginning of May it had caused over 130 human infections and 36 deaths. Human-to-human transmission of avian-origin H7N9 influenza A has been limited to a few family clusters, but the high mortality rate (27%) associated with human infection has raised concern about the potential for this virus to become a significant human pathogen. European, American, and Asian vaccine companies have already initiated the process of cloning H7 antigens such as hemagglutinin (HA) into standardized vaccine production vehicles. Unfortunately, previous H7 HA-containing vaccines have been poorly immunogenic. We used well-established immunoinformatics tools to analyze the H7N9 protein sequences and compare their T cell epitope content to other circulating influenza A strains as a means of estimating the immunogenic potential of the new influenza antigen. We found that the HA proteins derived from closely related human-derived H7N9 strains contain fewer T cell epitopes than other recently circulating strains of influenza, and that conservation of T cell epitopes with other strains of influenza was very limited. Here, we provide a detailed accounting of the type and location of T cell epitopes contained in H7N9 and their conservation in other H7 and circulating (A/California/07/2009, A/Victoria/361/2011, and A/Texas/50/2012) influenza A strains. Based on this analysis, avian-origin H7N9 2013 appears to be a "stealth" virus, capable of evading human cellular and humoral immune response. Should H7N9 develop pandemic potential, this analysis predicts that novel strategies for improving vaccine immunogenicity for this unique low-immunogenicity strain of avian-origin influenza will be urgently needed.

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AnimalsBirdsConserved SequenceEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusHumansInfluenza A Virus, H7N9 SubtypeInfluenza, HumanInfluenza in BirdsInfluenza VaccinesZoonosesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusInfluenza Vaccinesemerging infectious diseasesH7N9ImmunoinformaticsInfluenzaT Cell EpitopeVaccineVaccine Design

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PMID23807079
PMCPMC3899161
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