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TitleStructural and immunogenic characterisation of ChAdOx1 Chik-derived Chikungunya VLPs supports a mechanistic rationale for vaccine-induced protection.
Journal, issue, pagesNpj Viruses, Year 2026
Publish dateJul 16, 2025
AuthorsYoung Chan Kim / Xiyong Song / Yasunori Watanabe / Raquel de Oliveira Souza / Robert Stass / Sthefany Pagliari / Max Crispin / Beate Mareike Kümmerer / Carla Claser / Thomas A Bowden / Juha T Huiskonen / Arturo Reyes-Sandoval /
PubMed AbstractChikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that causes severe chronic arthritis in humans and constitutes an expanding global threat. We previously reported that a single unadjuvanted ...Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that causes severe chronic arthritis in humans and constitutes an expanding global threat. We previously reported that a single unadjuvanted dose of ChAdOx1 Chik vaccine was safe and elicited cross-protective functional antibodies against four distinctive CHIKV lineages in a Phase 1 trial. Here, we show that the CHIKV structural polyprotein encoded by ChAdOx1 Chik can assemble into CHIKV virus-like particles (VLPs) in mammalian cells. Cryo-EM derived reconstruction confirms that these CHIKV VLPs closely resemble the structure of the native virion and LC-MS demonstrates authentic E1/E2 glycosylation. In C57BL/6 mice, unadjuvanted CHIKV VLPs conferred significant protection against viremia and CHIKV-induced foot swelling. A head-to-head comparison of three adjuvant-free platforms encoding structural antigens derived from ChAdOx1 Chik showed that viral-vectors and VLPs induced similar CHIKV-neutralising antibody titres, both surpassing immunisation with soluble E2. Together, these structural and immunogenicity data support a mechanistic rationale that VLP assembly mediated by the clinically relevant ChAdOx1 Chik vaccine contributes to its vaccine-induced protection demonstrated in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
External linksNpj Viruses / PubMed:42380244
MethodsEM (single particle)
Resolution3.96 - 5.67 Å
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EMDB Unreleased entry

EMDB-54410: Icosahedral reconstruction of Chikungunya virus-like particle
Method: EM (single particle) / Resolution: 5.67 Å


EMDB Unreleased entry

EMDB-54411: Chikungunya virus-like particle trimer 1
Method: EM (single particle) / Resolution: 4.02 Å


EMDB Unreleased entry

EMDB-54412: Chikungunya virus-like particle trimer 2
Method: EM (single particle) / Resolution: 3.96 Å


EMDB Unreleased entry

EMDB-54413: Composite density map of Chikungunya virus-like particle
Method: EM (single particle) / Resolution: 4.0 Å

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