Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Protective mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 after heterologous systemic prime-mucosal boost immunization

  • Dennis Lapuente,
  • Jana Fuchs,
  • Jonas Willar,
  • Ana Vieira Antão,
  • Valentina Eberlein,
  • Nadja Uhlig,
  • Leila Issmail,
  • Anna Schmidt,
  • Friederike Oltmanns,
  • Antonia Sophia Peter,
  • Sandra Mueller-Schmucker,
  • Pascal Irrgang,
  • Kirsten Fraedrich,
  • Andrea Cara,
  • Markus Hoffmann,
  • Stefan Pöhlmann,
  • Armin Ensser,
  • Cordula Pertl,
  • Torsten Willert,
  • Christian Thirion,
  • Thomas Grunwald,
  • Klaus Überla,
  • Matthias Tenbusch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27063-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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While current COVID-19 vaccines provide certain protection, more effective vaccination strategies are still desirable. Here the authors show, using mouse vaccination models, that priming with a systemic mRNA and boosting with an intranasal adenoviral vector vaccine induces comprehensive T cell and mucosal immunity.