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A computationally designed antigen eliciting broad humoral responses against SARS-CoV-2 and related sarbecoviruses

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, September 2023
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Title
A computationally designed antigen eliciting broad humoral responses against SARS-CoV-2 and related sarbecoviruses
Published in
Nature Biomedical Engineering, September 2023
DOI 10.1038/s41551-023-01094-2
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Authors

Sneha Vishwanath, George William Carnell, Matteo Ferrari, Benedikt Asbach, Martina Billmeier, Charlotte George, Maria Suau Sans, Angalee Nadesalingam, Chloe Qingzhou Huang, Minna Paloniemi, Hazel Stewart, Andrew Chan, David Arthur Wells, Patrick Neckermann, David Peterhoff, Sebastian Einhauser, Diego Cantoni, Martin Mayora Neto, Ingo Jordan, Volker Sandig, Paul Tonks, Nigel Temperton, Simon Frost, Katharina Sohr, Maria Teresa Lluesma Ballesteros, Farzad Arbabi, Johannes Geiger, Christian Dohmen, Christian Plank, Rebecca Kinsley, Ralf Wagner, Jonathan Luke Heeney

Abstract

The threat of spillovers of coronaviruses associated with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from animals to humans necessitates vaccines that offer broader protection from sarbecoviruses. By leveraging a viral-genome-informed computational method for selecting immune-optimized and structurally engineered antigens, here we show that a single antigen based on the receptor binding domain of the spike protein of sarbecoviruses elicits broad humoral responses against SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, WIV16 and RaTG13 in mice, rabbits and guinea pigs. When administered as a DNA immunogen or by a vector based on a modified vaccinia virus Ankara, the optimized antigen induced vaccine protection from the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 in mice genetically engineered to express angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 and primed by a viral-vector vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2. A vaccine formulation incorporating mRNA coding for the optimized antigen further validated its broad immunogenicity. Vaccines that elicit broad immune responses across subgroups of coronaviruses may counteract the threat of zoonotic spillovers of betacoronaviruses.

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Unknown 20 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 35%
Unspecified 2 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 4 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Immunology and Microbiology 6 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 10%
Chemistry 2 10%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 5 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 887. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 August 2024.
All research outputs
#21,208
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Outputs from Nature Biomedical Engineering
#8
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Outputs of similar age
#484
of 367,341 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Biomedical Engineering
#2
of 46 outputs
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