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SARS-CoV-2 peptide vaccine elicits T-cell responses in mice but does not protect against infection or disease

Baxter, V. K.; Anderson, E. J.; Taft-Benz, S. A.; Olsen, K. S.; Sambade, M.; Gentry, K. M.; Beck, W. A.; Garness, J.; Woods, A.; Fini, M.; Carpenter, B.; Smith, C. C.; Heise, M. T.; Vincent, B. G.; Rubinsteyn, A.

2022-02-24 immunology
10.1101/2022.02.22.481499 bioRxiv
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We vaccinated BALB/c mice with peptides derived from the SARS-CoV-2 proteome selected in silico to elicit T-cell responses and/or B-cell responses against linear epitopes. These peptides were administered in combination with either of two adjuvants, poly(I:C) and the STING agonist BI-1387466. Antibody responses against predicted linear epitopes were not observed but both adjuvants consistently elicited T-cell responses to the same peptides, which were primarily from the set chosen for predicted T-cell immunogenicity. The magnitude of T-cell responses was significantly higher with BI-1387466 compared with poly(I:C). Neither adjuvant group, however, provided any protection against infection with the murine adapted virus SARS-CoV-2-MA10 or from disease following infection. In light of more recent evidence for protection from severe disease mediated by CD8+ T-cells, we suspect that the epitopes selected for vaccination were not presented by infected murine cells.

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