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ArticleNature communications2025

Clade 2.3.4.4b but not historical clade 1 HA replicating RNA vaccine protects against bovine H5N1 challenge in mice.

David W Hawman, Thomas Tipih, Eddie Hodge, E Taylor Stone, Nikole Warner, Natalie McCarthy, Brian Granger, Kimberly Meade-White, Shanna Leventhal, Kiara Hatzakis and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

David W HawmanLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA. david.hawman@hdt.bio.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8233-8176
Thomas TipihLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-1942
Eddie HodgeHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1606-5821
E Taylor StoneHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nikole WarnerHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-5529
Natalie McCarthyLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA.
Brian GrangerHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.
Kimberly Meade-WhiteLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA.
Shanna LeventhalLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA.
Kiara HatzakisHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.
Stephanie ParkHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-8954-9265
Karen GaffneyHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA.
Kyle RosenkeLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8101-4348
Jesse H ErasmusHDT Bio, Seattle, WA, USA. JesseErasmus@hdt.bio.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1612-2697
Heinz FeldmannLaboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA. feldmannh@niaid.nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9448-8227

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing circulation of influenza A H5N1 in the United States has raised concerns of a pandemic caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza. Although the United States has stockpiled and is prepared to produce millions of vaccine doses to address an H5N1 pandemic, currently circulating H5N1 viruses contain multiple mutations within the immunodominant head domain of hemagglutinin (HA) compared to the antigens used in stockpiled vaccines. It is unclear if these stockpiled vaccines will need to be updated to match the contemporary H5N1 strains. Here we show that a replicating RNA vaccine expressing the HA of an H5N1 isolated from a US dairy cow confers complete protection against homologous lethal challenge in mice. A repRNA encoding the HA of a clade 1 H5 from 2004 (A/Vietnam/1203/2004) as utilized by some stockpiled vaccines, confers only partial protection. Our data highlight the utility of nucleic acid vaccines to be rapidly updated to match emergent viruses of concern while demonstrating that contemporary bovine H5N1 viruses can evade immunity elicited by historical HA antigens.

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Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusInfluenza A Virus, H5N1 SubtypeInfluenza VaccinesOrthomyxoviridae InfectionsAnimalsAntibodies, ViralCattleFemaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CmRNA VaccinesAntibodies, ViralHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusInfluenza VaccinesmRNA Vaccines

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PMCPMC11732985

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