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Unadjuvanted intranasal spike vaccine booster elicits robust protective mucosal immunity against sarbecoviruses

Mao, T.; Goldman-Israelow, B.; Suberi, A.; Zhou, L.; reschke, m.; pena-hernandez, M.; Dong, H.; Homer, R.; Saltzman, M.; Iwasaki, A.

2022-01-26 immunology
10.1101/2022.01.24.477597 bioRxiv
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As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic enters its third year, vaccines that not only prevent disease, but also prevent transmission are needed to help reduce global disease burden. Currently approved parenteral vaccines induce robust systemic immunity, but poor immunity at the respiratory mucosa. Here we describe the development of a novel vaccine strategy, Prime and Spike, based on unadjuvanted intranasal spike boosting that leverages existing immunity generated by primary vaccination to elicit mucosal immune memory within the respiratory tract. We show that Prime and Spike induces robust T resident memory cells, B resident memory cells and IgA at the respiratory mucosa, boosts systemic immunity, and completely protects mice with partial immunity from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection. Using divergent spike proteins, Prime and Spike enables induction of cross-reactive immunity against sarbecoviruses without invoking original antigenic sin. One-sentence summaryBroad sarbecovirus protective mucosal immunity is generated by unadjuvanted intranasal spike boost in preclinical model.

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