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| Title | A foldon-free prefusion F trimer vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus to reduce off-target immune responses. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | Nat Microbiol, Vol. 9, Issue 12, Page 3254-3267, Year 2024 |
| Publish date | Nov 20, 2024 |
Authors | Mark J G Bakkers / Freek Cox / Annemart Koornneef / Xiaodi Yu / Daan van Overveld / Lam Le / Ward van den Hoogen / Joost Vaneman / Anne Thoma / Richard Voorzaat / Lisanne Tettero / Jarek Juraszek / Leslie van der Fits / Roland Zahn / Johannes P M Langedijk / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe respiratory disease in infants and older people. Current RSV subunit vaccines are based on a fusion protein that is stabilized in the ...Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe respiratory disease in infants and older people. Current RSV subunit vaccines are based on a fusion protein that is stabilized in the prefusion conformation and linked to a heterologous foldon trimerization domain to obtain a prefusion F (preF) trimer. Here we show that current RSV vaccines induce undesirable anti-foldon antibodies in non-human primates, mice and humans. To overcome this, we designed a foldon-free RSV preF trimer by elucidating the structural basis of trimerization-induced preF destabilization through molecular dynamics simulations and by introducing amino acid substitutions that negate hotspots of charge repulsion. The highly stable prefusion conformation was validated using antigenic and cryo-electron microscopy analysis. The preF is immunogenic and protective in naive mouse models and boosts neutralizing antibody titres in RSV-pre-exposed mice and non-human primates, while achieving similar titres to approved RSV vaccines in mice. This stable preF design is a promising option as a foldon-independent candidate for a next-generation RSV vaccine immunogen. |
External links | Nat Microbiol / PubMed:39567664 / PubMed Central |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 3.28 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-44117, PDB-9b2x: |
| Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-NAG: |
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Keywords | VIRAL PROTEIN / Prefusion / RSV / Cryo-EM / VIRUS |
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