Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Commercial influenza vaccines vary in HA-complex structure and in induction of cross-reactive HA antibodies

  • Mallory L. Myers,
  • John R. Gallagher,
  • Alexander J. Kim,
  • Walker H. Payne,
  • Samantha Maldonado-Puga,
  • Haralabos Assimakopoulos,
  • Kevin W. Bock,
  • Udana Torian,
  • Ian N. Moore,
  • Audray K. Harris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37162-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here, Myers and Gallagher et al. characterize the structural organization of commercial influenza vaccines. The vaccines differ in their structural composition and identify a “spiked nanodisc” arrangement of hemagglutinin (HA) with increased display and immunogenicity of the conserved stem region of HA.