Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Induction of cross-neutralizing antibodies by a permuted hepatitis C virus glycoprotein nanoparticle vaccine candidate

  • Kwinten Sliepen,
  • Laura Radić,
  • Joan Capella-Pujol,
  • Yasunori Watanabe,
  • Ian Zon,
  • Ana Chumbe,
  • Wen-Hsin Lee,
  • Marlon de Gast,
  • Jelle Koopsen,
  • Sylvie Koekkoek,
  • Iván del Moral-Sánchez,
  • Philip J. M. Brouwer,
  • Rashmi Ravichandran,
  • Gabriel Ozorowski,
  • Neil P. King,
  • Andrew B. Ward,
  • Marit J. van Gils,
  • Max Crispin,
  • Janke Schinkel,
  • Rogier W. Sanders

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34961-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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E1E2 spike on the hepatitis C virion is an important target for vaccine design. Here, the authors permute the subunits to generate E2E1 immunogens and show that mosaic nanoparticles displaying different E2E1 antigens elicit cross-neutralizing antibodies in rabbits.