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ArticleCell2021

Elicitation of broadly protective sarbecovirus immunity by receptor-binding domain nanoparticle vaccines.

Alexandra C Walls, Marcos C Miranda, Alexandra Schäfer, Minh N Pham, Allison Greaney, Prabhu S Arunachalam, Mary-Jane Navarro, M Alejandra Tortorici, Kenneth Rogers, Megan A O'Connor and 39 more

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Article in Cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers.

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144citing papers in PubMed
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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144 citing papers in PubMed, 187 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

49 authors at 11 institutions in 4 countries.

Alexandra C WallsDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Marcos C MirandaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Alexandra SchäferDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Minh N PhamDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Allison GreaneyBasic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Prabhu S ArunachalamInstitute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Mary-Jane NavarroDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
M Alejandra TortoriciDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institut Pasteur and CNRS UMR 3569, Unité de Virologie Structurale, Paris, France.
Kenneth RogersNew Iberia Research Center and Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, LA 70560, USA.
Megan A O'ConnorWashington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, WA 98121, USA; Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Lisa ShirreffNew Iberia Research Center and Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, LA 70560, USA.
Douglas E FerrellNew Iberia Research Center and Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, LA 70560, USA.
John BowenDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Natalie BrunetteDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Elizabeth KeplDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Samantha K ZepedaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Tyler StarrBasic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Ching-Lin HsiehDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Brooke FialaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Samuel WrennDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Deleah PettieDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Claire SydemanDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Kaitlin R SprouseDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Max JohnsonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Alyssa BlackstoneDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Rashmi RavichandranDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Cassandra OgoharaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Lauren CarterDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Sasha W TillesDivision of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Rino RappuoliGSK, Siena, Italy.
Sarah R LeistDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
David R MartinezDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Matthew ClarkDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Roland TischLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Derek T O'HaganGSK, Rockville, MD, USA.
Robbert Van Der MostGSK, Rixensart, Belgium.
Wesley C Van VoorhisDivision of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Davide CortiHumabs Biomed SA, a subsidiary of Vir Biotechnology, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Jason S McLellanDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Harry KleanthousBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Timothy P SheahanDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Kelly D SmithUW Medicine Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Deborah H FullerWashington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, WA 98121, USA; Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Francois VillingerNew Iberia Research Center and Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, LA 70560, USA.
Jesse BloomBasic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Bali PulendranInstitute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Ralph S BaricDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Neil P KingDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: neil@ipd.uw.edu.
David VeeslerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: dveesler@uw.edu.
University of Washington · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette · USStanford University · USThe University of Texas at Austin · USCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRFred Hutch Cancer Center · USGates Foundation · USGlaxoSmithKline (Belgium) · BEGlaxoSmithKline (United States) · USVir Biotechnology (Switzerland) · CH

Funding

Washington National Primate Research CenterP51OD010425 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Mari Ostendorf · 2012 to 2026
$201.8M
University of Washington Arboviral Research Network (UWARN)U01AI151698 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Michael Gale, PETER MACGARR RABINOWITZ · 2020 to 2026
$13.3M
TRAINING IN MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICST32GM008268 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KOLLMAN, JUSTIN M, ZHENG, NING · 1988 to 2023
$8.6M
Respiratory Virus Vaccine and Adjuvant Exploration - Equipment SupplementU01AI149644 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BARIC, RALPH S · 2019 to 2023
$6.1M
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PATHOGENESIS TRAININGT32AI007151 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JULIANO, JONATHAN J · 1985 to 2024
$5.5M
Unraveling the bat humoral immune response against zoonotic viruses to guide the design of next-generation therapeuticsDP1AI158186 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI VEESLER, DAVID · 2020 to 2024
$5.4M
Structure, Function and Antigenicity of Coronavirus Spike ProteinsR01AI127521 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI MCLELLAN, JASON SCOTT, WARD, ANDREW BARRETT · 2017 to 2021
$3.1M
Structural Studies of Coronavirus Fusion ProteinsR01GM120553 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI VEESLER, DAVID · 2016 to 2020
$1.7M
Defining viral and immune mechanisms of Dengue virus serotype 2 immune evasionF32AI152296 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MARTINEZ, DAVID R. · 2020 to 2020
$41k
NIAID NIH HHS DP1 AI158186NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI152296NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201700059CNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127521NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007151NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI149644NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI151698NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120553NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008268NIH HHS P51 OD010425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding vaccine-elicited protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants and other sarbecoviruses is key for guiding public health policies. We show that a clinical stage multivalent SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain nanoparticle (RBD-NP) vaccine protects mice from SARS-CoV-2 challenge after a single immunization, indicating a potential dose-sparing strategy. We benchmarked serum neutralizing activity elicited by RBD-NPs in non-human primates against a lead prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike (HexaPro) using a panel of circulating mutants. Polyclonal antibodies elicited by both vaccines are similarly resilient to many RBD residue substitutions tested, although mutations at and surrounding position 484 have negative consequences for neutralization. Mosaic and cocktail nanoparticle immunogens displaying multiple sarbecovirus RBDs elicit broad neutralizing activity in mice and protect mice against SARS-CoV challenge even in the absence of SARS-CoV RBD in the vaccine. This study provides proof of principle that multivalent sarbecovirus RBD-NPs induce heterotypic protection and motivates advancing such broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines to the clinic.

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COVID-19mosaic nanoparticlereceptor-binding domainsarbecovirusSARS-CoV-2self-assembling nanoparticlespike glycoproteinvaccine design

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PMID34619077
PMCPMC8440233
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