Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

S-Trimer, a COVID-19 subunit vaccine candidate, induces protective immunity in nonhuman primates

  • Joshua G. Liang,
  • Danmei Su,
  • Tian-Zhang Song,
  • Yilan Zeng,
  • Weijin Huang,
  • Jinhua Wu,
  • Rong Xu,
  • Peiwen Luo,
  • Xiaofang Yang,
  • Xiaodong Zhang,
  • Shuangru Luo,
  • Ying Liang,
  • Xinglin Li,
  • Jiaju Huang,
  • Qiang Wang,
  • Xueqin Huang,
  • Qingsong Xu,
  • Mei Luo,
  • Anliang Huang,
  • Dongxia Luo,
  • Chenyan Zhao,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jian-Bao Han,
  • Yong-Tang Zheng,
  • Peng Liang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21634-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 are needed to fight the pandemic. Here the authors show immunogenicity of an adjuvanted subunit vaccine, SARS-CoV-2 spike protein trimerized with trimer-tag technology, in small animal models and protection from SARS-CoV-2 challenge in non-human primates.