A COVID-19 vaccine candidate using SpyCatcher multimerization of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain induces potent neutralising antibody responses

Vaccines for SARS-COV-2 are needed in the ongoing pandemic. Here the authors characterize a vaccine candidate that presents the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on a synthetic VLP platform using SpyTag/SpyCatcher technology and show immunogenicity of a prime-boost regimen in...

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Main Authors: Tiong Kit Tan, Pramila Rijal, Rolle Rahikainen, Anthony H. Keeble, Lisa Schimanski, Saira Hussain, Ruth Harvey, Jack W. P. Hayes, Jane C. Edwards, Rebecca K. McLean, Veronica Martini, Miriam Pedrera, Nazia Thakur, Carina Conceicao, Isabelle Dietrich, Holly Shelton, Anna Ludi, Ginette Wilsden, Clare Browning, Adrian K. Zagrajek, Dagmara Bialy, Sushant Bhat, Phoebe Stevenson-Leggett, Philippa Hollinghurst, Matthew Tully, Katy Moffat, Chris Chiu, Ryan Waters, Ashley Gray, Mehreen Azhar, Valerie Mioulet, Joseph Newman, Amin S. Asfor, Alison Burman, Sylvia Crossley, John A. Hammond, Elma Tchilian, Bryan Charleston, Dalan Bailey, Tobias J. Tuthill, Simon P. Graham, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Tomas Malinauskas, Jiandong Huo, Julia A. Tree, Karen R. Buttigieg, Raymond J. Owens, Miles W. Carroll, Rodney S. Daniels, John W. McCauley, David I. Stuart, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Mark Howarth, Alain R. Townsend
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20654-7