Journal: Nat Med / Year: 2017 Title: A chikungunya fever vaccine utilizing an insect-specific virus platform. Authors: Jesse H Erasmus / Albert J Auguste / Jason T Kaelber / Huanle Luo / Shannan L Rossi / Karla Fenton / Grace Leal / Dal Y Kim / Wah Chiu / Tian Wang / Ilya Frolov / Farooq Nasar / Scott C Weaver / Abstract: Traditionally, vaccine development involves tradeoffs between immunogenicity and safety. Live-attenuated vaccines typically offer rapid and durable immunity but have reduced safety when compared to ...Traditionally, vaccine development involves tradeoffs between immunogenicity and safety. Live-attenuated vaccines typically offer rapid and durable immunity but have reduced safety when compared to inactivated vaccines. In contrast, the inability of inactivated vaccines to replicate enhances safety at the expense of immunogenicity, often necessitating multiple doses and boosters. To overcome these tradeoffs, we developed the insect-specific alphavirus, Eilat virus (EILV), as a vaccine platform. To address the chikungunya fever (CHIKF) pandemic, we used an EILV cDNA clone to design a chimeric virus containing the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) structural proteins. The recombinant EILV/CHIKV was structurally identical at 10 Å to wild-type CHIKV, as determined by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, and it mimicked the early stages of CHIKV replication in vertebrate cells from attachment and entry to viral RNA delivery. Yet the recombinant virus remained completely defective for productive replication, providing a high degree of safety. A single dose of EILV/CHIKV produced in mosquito cells elicited rapid (within 4 d) and long-lasting (>290 d) neutralizing antibodies that provided complete protection in two different mouse models. In nonhuman primates, EILV/CHIKV elicited rapid and robust immunity that protected against viremia and telemetrically monitored fever. Our EILV platform represents the first structurally native application of an insect-specific virus in preclinical vaccine development and highlights the potential application of such viruses in vaccinology.
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Cryogen name: ETHANE / Chamber humidity: 100 % / Instrument: FEI VITROBOT MARK IV / Method: Blot for 2 seconds before plunging
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JEOL 3200FSC
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Average: 94.9 K
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Energy filter - Name: Omega filter / Energy filter - Lower energy threshold: 0.0 eV / Energy filter - Upper energy threshold: 25.0 eV
Date
Oct 17, 2014
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Category: CCD / Film or detector model: DIRECT ELECTRON DE-20 (5k x 3k) / Number real images: 348 / Average electron dose: 60 e/Å2 Details: 2s exposure at 16 frames per second. Movie corrected for motion and specimen damage with DE_process_frames.py written by Ben Bammes of Direct Electron, L.P.
Electron beam
Acceleration voltage: 300 kV / Electron source: FIELD EMISSION GUN
Refined in independent halves starting from an initial model derived from low-resolution imaging on a JEM2010F
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Applied symmetry - Point group: I (icosahedral) / Algorithm: OTHER / Resolution.type: BY AUTHOR / Resolution: 9.85 Å / Resolution method: OTHER / Software - Name: MPSA, EMAN2 Details: Boxing and CTF correction using EMAN2. Alignment and reconstruction using MPSA. Post-processing using EMAN2. Number images used: 13455
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