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ArticleScience immunology2021

Fractionating a COVID-19 Ad5-vectored vaccine improves virus-specific immunity.

Sarah Sanchez, Nicole Palacio, Tanushree Dangi, Thomas Ciucci, Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster

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Article in Science immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah SanchezDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2924-1778
Nicole PalacioDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1229-5224
Tanushree DangiDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1698-8087
Thomas CiucciDavid H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5828-0207
Pablo Penaloza-MacMasterDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Interferon-modulated vaccines against HIVDP2DA051912 · NIDA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI PENALOZA, PABLO · 2020 to 2023
$2.7M
NIDA NIH HHS DP2 DA051912
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global pandemic that has infected more than 250 million people worldwide. Although several vaccine candidates have received emergency use authorization, there is still limited knowledge on how vaccine dosing affects immune responses. We performed mechanistic studies in mice to understand how the priming dose of an adenovirus-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine affects long-term immunity to SARS-CoV-2. We first primed C57BL/6 mice with an adenovirus serotype 5 vaccine encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, similar to that used in the CanSino and Sputnik V vaccines. The vaccine prime was administered at either a standard dose or 1000-fold lower dose, followed by a boost with the standard dose 4 weeks later. Initially, the low dose prime induced lower immune responses relative to the standard dose prime. However, the low dose prime elicited immune responses that were qualitatively superior and, upon boosting, exhibited substantially more potent recall and functional capacity. We also report similar effects with a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) vaccine. These findings show an unexpected advantage of fractionating vaccine prime doses, warranting a reevaluation of vaccine trial protocols for SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens.

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Immunogenicity, VaccineAdenoviridaeAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCOVID-19 VaccinesDose-Response Relationship, ImmunologicFemaleGenetic VectorsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLCOVID-19 Vaccines

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PMID34648369
PMCPMC9278052
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