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ArticleVaccine2019

Antibody responses to crucial functional epitopes as a novel approach to assess immunogenicity of vaccine adjuvants.

Sita Awasthi, Lauren M Hook, Gokul Swaminathan, Tina M Cairns, Benjamin Brooks, Jeffrey S Smith, Noah T Ditto, Marian E Gindy, Andrew J Bett, Amy S Espeseth and 2 more

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Article in Vaccine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 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

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sita AwasthiInfectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: sawasthi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Lauren M HookInfectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: lhook@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Gokul SwaminathanMerck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States.
Tina M CairnsDepartment of Microbiology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: tmcairns@dental.upenn.edu.
Benjamin BrooksCarterra, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Electronic address: benjamin.d.brooks@ndsu.edu.
Jeffrey S SmithMerck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States. Electronic address: jeffrey.smith@merck.com.
Noah T DittoCarterra, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Electronic address: nditto@carterra-bio.com.
Marian E GindyMerck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States. Electronic address: marian_gindy@merck.com.
Andrew J BettMerck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States. Electronic address: andrew_bett@merck.com.
Amy S EspesethMerck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States. Electronic address: amy_espeseth@merck.com.
Gary H CohenDepartment of Microbiology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: ghc@dental.upenn.edu.
Harvey M FriedmanInfectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: hfriedma@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USCarterra (United States) · US

Funding

STUDIES OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS GLYCOPROTEINSR01AI018289 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI COHEN, GARY H · 1985 to 2019
$3.8M
HSV-2 immune evasion as a virulence factorR01AI104854 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FRIEDMAN, HARVEY MICHAEL · 2014 to 2018
$2.1M
Blocking immune evasion as a novel immunotherapy for recurrent HSV-2 infectionR21AI105959 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI AWASTHI, SITA, FRIEDMAN, HARVEY MICHAEL · 2013 to 2014
$426k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI018289NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI104854NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI105959
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We are interested in developing a vaccine that prevents genital herpes. Adjuvants have a major impact on vaccine immunogenicity. We compared two adjuvants, an experimental Merck Sharp & Dohme lipid nanoparticle (LNP) adjuvant, LNP-2, with CpG oligonucleotide combined with alum for immunogenicity in mice when administered with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) glycoproteins C, D and E (gC2, gD2, gE2). The immunogens are intended to produce neutralizing antibodies to gC2 and gD2, antibodies to gD2 and gE2 that block cell-to-cell spread, and antibodies to gE2 and gC2 that block immune evasion from antibody and complement, respectively. Overall, CpG/alum was better at producing serum and vaginal IgG binding antibodies, neutralizing antibodies, antibodies that block virus spread from cell-to-cell, and antibodies that block immune evasion domains on gC2. We used a novel high throughput biosensor assay to further assess differences in immunogenicity by mapping antibody responses to seven crucial epitopes on gD2 involved in virus entry or cell-to-cell spread. We found striking differences between CpG/alum and LNP-2. Mice immunized with gD2 CpG/alum produced higher titers of antibodies than LNP-2 to six of seven crucial epitopes and produced antibodies to more crucial epitopes than LNP-2. Measuring epitope-specific antibodies helped to define mechanisms by which CpG/alum outperformed LNP-2 and is a valuable technique to compare adjuvants.

Indexed as

Antibody FormationAdjuvants, ImmunologicAlum CompoundsAnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralBiosensing TechniquesEpitopesFemaleHerpes GenitalisHerpesvirus VaccinesImmune EvasionImmunogenicity, VaccineMice, Inbred C57BLOligodeoxyribonucleotidesViral Envelope ProteinsAdjuvants, ImmunologicAlum Compoundsaluminum sulfateAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralCPG-oligonucleotideEpitopesglycoprotein C, herpes simplex virus type 2glycoprotein D, Human herpesvirus 1glycoprotein E, herpes simplex virus type 1Herpesvirus VaccinesOligodeoxyribonucleotidesViral Envelope ProteinsAdjuvantsAntibodiesBiosensorEpitopesHerpes simplex virusVaccines

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PMID31153687
PMCPMC6579625
OpenAlexW2947044344

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