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ArticleScientific reports2016

Long-Lasting Cross-Protection Against Influenza A by Neuraminidase and M2e-based immunization strategies.

Michael Schotsaert, Tine Ysenbaert, Anouk Smet, Bert Schepens, Dieter Vanderschaeghe, Svetlana Stegalkina, Thorsten U Vogel, Nico Callewaert, Walter Fiers, Xavier Saelens

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Michael SchotsaertMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Tine YsenbaertMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Anouk SmetMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Bert SchepensMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Dieter VanderschaegheMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Svetlana StegalkinaSanofi Pasteur, Research North America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Thorsten U VogelSanofi Pasteur, Research North America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Nico CallewaertMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Walter FiersMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Xavier SaelensMedical Biotechnology Center, VIB, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
Ghent University · BESanofi (United States) · USVIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is mounting evidence that in the absence of neutralizing antibodies cross-reactive T cells provide protection against pandemic influenza viruses. Here, we compared protection and CD8+ T cell responses following challenge with H1N1 2009 pandemic and H3N2 viruses of mice that had been immunized with hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA) and the extracellular domain of matrix protein 2 (M2e) fused to a virus-like particle (VLP). Mice were challenged a first time with a sublethal dose of H1N1 2009 pandemic virus and, four weeks later, challenged again with an H3N2 virus. Mice that had been vaccinated with HA, NA, NA + M2e-VLP and HA + NA + M2e-VLP were protected against homologous H1N1 virus challenge. Challenged NA and NA + M2e-VLP vaccinated mice mounted CD8+ T cell responses that correlated with protection against secondary H3N2 challenge. HA-vaccinated mice were fully protected against challenge with homologous H1N1 2009 virus, failed to mount cross-reactive CD8+ T cells and succumbed to the second challenge with heterologous H3N2 virus. In summary, NA- and M2e-based immunity can protect against challenge with (homologous) virus without compromising the induction of robust cross-reactive CD8+ T cell responses upon exposure to virus.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCross ReactionsFemaleHumansInfluenza A virusInfluenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesMiceMice, Inbred BALB CNeuraminidaseViral Matrix ProteinsViroporin ProteinsVirus ReplicationAntibodies, NeutralizingInfluenza VaccinesM2 protein, Influenza A virusNeuraminidaseViral Matrix ProteinsViroporin Proteins

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PMID27072615
PMCPMC4829898
OpenAlexW2337405218

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