Abstract
Vaccines against emerging pathogens such as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus can benefit from current technologies such as rapid genomic sequencing to construct the most biologically relevant vaccine. A novel platform (Ad5 [E1-, E2b-]) has been utilized to induce immune responses to various antigenic targets. We employed this vector platform to express hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) genes from 2009 H1N1 pandemic viruses. Inserts were consensuses sequences designed from viral isolate sequences and the vaccine was rapidly constructed and produced. Vaccination induced H1N1 immune responses in mice, which afforded protection from lethal virus challenge. In ferrets, vaccination protected from disease development and significantly reduced viral titers in nasal washes. H1N1 cell mediated immunity as well as antibody induction correlated with the prevention of disease symptoms and reduction of virus replication. The Ad5 [E1-, E2b-] should be evaluated for the rapid development of effective vaccines against infectious diseases.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 7020-7026 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Vaccine |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 40 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 16 2011 |
Keywords
- Ad5 [E1-, E2b-]
- Adenovirus vector
- Cell mediated immunity
- H1N1 vaccine
- Hemagglutinin
- Horizontal transmission
- Influenza
- Neuraminidase
- Pandemic
- Viral shedding
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Molecular Medicine
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- General Veterinary
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases