Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35846379›Full record

ArticleiScience2022

Protein-protein conjugation enhances the immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) vaccines.

Puthupparampil V Scaria, Chris G Rowe, Beth B Chen, Thayne H Dickey, Jonathan P Renn, Lynn E Lambert, Emma K Barnafo, Kelly M Rausch, Niraj H Tolia, Patrick E Duffy

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Puthupparampil V ScariaLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Chris G RoweLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Beth B ChenLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Thayne H DickeyLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Jonathan P RennLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Lynn E LambertLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Emma K BarnafoLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Kelly M RauschLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Niraj H ToliaLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
Patrick E DuffyLaboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, NIAID/NIH, 29 Lincoln Drive, Building 29B, Bethesda, MD 20892-2903, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Optimizing malaria transmission-blocking vaccines with improved platforms ZIAAI001008 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI DUFFY, PATRICK · 2009 to 2024
$25.2M
COVID-19 Serosurveys and Vaccine Study Site PreparationsZIAAI001261 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI DUFFY, PATRICK · 2020 to 2025
$2.4M
COVID-19 Structural VaccinologyZIAAI001262 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI TOLIA, NIRAJ · 2020 to 2024
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201400008C
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been developed using different technologies. Although these vaccines target the isolates collected early in the pandemic, many have protected against serious illness from newer variants. Nevertheless, efficacy has diminished against successive variants and the need for effective and affordable vaccines persists especially in the developing world. Here, we adapted our protein-protein conjugate vaccine technology to generate a vaccine based on receptor-binding domain (RBD) antigen. RBD was conjugated to a carrier protein, EcoCRM®, to generate two types of conjugates: crosslinked and radial conjugates. In the crosslinked conjugate, antigen and carrier are chemically crosslinked; in the radial conjugate, the antigen is conjugated to the carrier by site-specific conjugation. With AS01 adjuvant, both conjugates showed enhanced immunogenicity in mice compared to RBD, with a Th1 bias. In hACE2 binding inhibition and pseudovirus neutralization assays, sera from mice vaccinated with the radial conjugate demonstrated strong functional activity.

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PMID35846379
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