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ArticleVaccines2026

Structural Design of T-Cell Epitope-Based mRNA Vaccine Constructs Determines the Quality of T-Cell Immunity and Protective Efficacy Against SARS-CoV-2 in Mice.

Vladimir A Gushchin, Andrei E Siniavin, Andrei A Pochtovyi, Alina S Dzharullaeva, Dmitriy N Shcherbinin, Anastasia S Ungur, Amir I Tukhvatulin, Inna V Shuliakova, Denis A Kleymenov, Elena P Mazunina and 8 more

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Vladimir A GushchinFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-9397-3762
Andrei E SiniavinFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-7576-2059
Andrei A PochtovyiFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-1107-9351
Alina S DzharullaevaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-1743-0798
Dmitriy N ShcherbininFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-8518-1669
Anastasia S UngurFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-3187-8572
Amir I TukhvatulinFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-8506-2339
Inna V ShuliakovaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.
Denis A KleymenovFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-9422-7238
Elena P MazuninaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-0701-5152
Evgeniia N BykoniaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-2269-1469
Sofia R KozlovaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0009-0009-6196-8262
Evgeny V UsachevFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-5197-2465
Ilya D ZorkovFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.
Daria M GrousovaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.
Anna A IliukhinaFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-0728-5478
Alexander L GintsburgFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.
Denis Y LogunovFederal State Budget Institution "National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Named After the Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya", The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 123098 Moscow, Russia.

Funding

This research was funded by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the Government assignment "Adaptation of neoantigen-specific therapeutic mRNA vaccine principles for person-alized systemic immunotherapy of malignant neoplasms for human use" 125021101877-7
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesEpitope-based mRNA vaccines represent a promising strategy for eliciting protective T-cell immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and as well as for non-infectious mRNA-based vaccines. However, how the structural architecture of vaccine constructs (including epitope arrangement, linker composition, signal peptide presence, and the combination of MHC class I and II epitopes) shapes the quality of T-cell responses remains poorly understood.

methodsTen tandem minigene mRNA constructs (Cons1-10) encoding different combinations of MHC class I and class II epitopes from SARS-CoV-2 proteins (S, N, M, ORF3a) were designed, encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles, and administered to C57BL/6 mice. Immunogenicity was assessed by cytokine profiling (IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4, IL-10) and T-cell proliferation assays. Protective efficacy was evaluated in K18-hACE2 transgenic mice challenged with SARS-CoV-2.

resultsConstructs lacking a signal peptide and enriched in MHC class I-restricted epitopes induced robust Th1 responses and strong CD8

conclusionsThese findings establish a direct link between construct design parameters and T-cell polarization quality, and provide a rational framework for next-generation epitope-based mRNA vaccine development.

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CD8 T cellsepitope-based vaccineMHC I/IImRNA vaccineSARS-CoV-2T-cell response

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PMCPMC13030834

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