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ArticleEmerging microbes & infections2013

Rapidly produced SAM(®) vaccine against H7N9 influenza is immunogenic in mice.

Armin Hekele, Sylvie Bertholet, Jacob Archer, Daniel G Gibson, Giuseppe Palladino, Luis A Brito, Gillis R Otten, Michela Brazzoli, Scilla Buccato, Alessandra Bonci and 18 more

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Article in Emerging microbes & infections, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 138 papers.

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138citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

138 citing papers in PubMed, 220 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Armin HekeleNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Sylvie BertholetNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Jacob ArcherNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Daniel G GibsonSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Giuseppe PalladinoNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Luis A BritoNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Gillis R OttenNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Michela BrazzoliNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Scilla BuccatoNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Alessandra BonciNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Daniele CasiniNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Domenico MaioneNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Zhi-Qing QiSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
John E GillSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Nicky C CaiazzaSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Jun UranoSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Bolyn HubbySynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
George F GaoChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Beijing 102206, China.
Yuelong ShuChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Beijing 102206, China.
Ennio De GregorioNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Christian W MandlNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Peter W MasonNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Ethan C SettembreNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Jeffrey B UlmerNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
J Craig VenterSynthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Philip R DormitzerNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Rino RappuoliNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Siena 53100, Italy.
Andrew J GeallNovartis Vaccines and Diagnostics , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Novartis (Germany) · DENovartis (Italy) · ITSynthetic Genomics (United States) · USNovartis (United States) · USCenter for Disease Control · TWChinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The timing of vaccine availability is essential for an effective response to pandemic influenza. In 2009, vaccine became available after the disease peak, and this has motivated the development of next generation vaccine technologies for more rapid responses. The SAM(®) vaccine platform, now in pre-clinical development, is based on a synthetic, self-amplifying mRNA, delivered by a synthetic lipid nanoparticle (LNP). When used to express seasonal influenza hemagglutinin (HA), a SAM vaccine elicited potent immune responses, comparable to those elicited by a licensed influenza subunit vaccine preparation. When the sequences coding for the HA and neuraminidase (NA) genes from the H7N9 influenza outbreak in China were posted on a web-based data sharing system, the combination of rapid and accurate cell-free gene synthesis and SAM vaccine technology allowed the generation of a vaccine candidate in 8 days. Two weeks after the first immunization, mice had measurable hemagglutinin inhibition (HI) and neutralizing antibody titers against the new virus. Two weeks after the second immunization, all mice had HI titers considered protective. If the SAM vaccine platform proves safe, potent, well tolerated and effective in humans, fully synthetic vaccine technologies could provide unparalleled speed of response to stem the initial wave of influenza outbreaks, allowing first availability of a vaccine candidate days after the discovery of a new virus.

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influenzaRNA vaccineSAM vaccinevaccine platform

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