《Nature,2月3日,A single-dose mRNA vaccine provides a long-term protection for hACE2 transgenic mice from SARS-CoV-2》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2021-02-25
  • A single-dose mRNA vaccine provides a long-term protection for hACE2 transgenic mice from SARS-CoV-2
    Qingrui Huang, Kai Ji, Siyu Tian, Fengze Wang, Baoying Huang, Zhou Tong, Shuguang Tan, Junfeng Hao, Qihui Wang, Wenjie Tan, George F. Gao & Jinghua Yan
    Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 776 (2021)

    Abstract
    The rapid expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic has made the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine a global health and economic priority. Taking advantage of versatility and rapid development, three SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine candidates have entered clinical trials with a two-dose immunization regimen. However, the waning antibody response in convalescent patients after SARS-CoV-2 infection and the emergence of human re-infection have raised widespread concerns about a possible short duration of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection. Here, we developed a nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine in lipid-encapsulated form that encoded the SARS-CoV-2 RBD, termed as mRNA-RBD. A single immunization of mRNA-RBD elicited both robust neutralizing antibody and cellular responses, and conferred a near-complete protection against wild SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lungs of hACE2 transgenic mice. Noticeably, the high levels of neutralizing antibodies in BALB/c mice induced by mRNA-RBD vaccination were maintained for at least 6.5 months and conferred a long-term notable protection for hACE2 transgenic mice against SARS-CoV-2 infection in a sera transfer study. These data demonstrated that a single dose of mRNA-RBD provided long-term protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge.

  • 原文来源:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21037-2
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