Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Rational Zika vaccine design via the modulation of antigen membrane anchors in chimpanzee adenoviral vectors

  • César López-Camacho,
  • Peter Abbink,
  • Rafael A. Larocca,
  • Wanwisa Dejnirattisai,
  • Michael Boyd,
  • Alex Badamchi-Zadeh,
  • Zoë R. Wallace,
  • Jennifer Doig,
  • Ricardo Sanchez Velazquez,
  • Roberto Dias Lins Neto,
  • Danilo F. Coelho,
  • Young Chan Kim,
  • Claire L. Donald,
  • Ania Owsianka,
  • Giuditta De Lorenzo,
  • Alain Kohl,
  • Sarah C. Gilbert,
  • Lucy Dorrell,
  • Juthathip Mongkolsapaya,
  • Arvind H. Patel,
  • Gavin R. Screaton,
  • Dan H. Barouch,
  • Adrian V. S. Hill,
  • Arturo Reyes-Sandoval

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04859-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging global health issue, but currently no licensed vaccine achieves lasting protective immunity. Here the authors show that a ZIKV vaccine containing the envelop protein without the transmembrane domain and the precursor membrane protein can provide effective protection in mouse models.