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Full Brain and Lung Prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 by Intranasal Lentiviral Vaccination in a New hACE2 Transgenic Mouse Model or Golden Hamsters [article]

Min-Wen Ku, Pierre Authie, Maryline Bourgine, Francois Anna, Amandine Noirat, Fanny Moncoq, Benjamin Vesin, Fabien Nevo, Jodie Lopez, Philippe Souque, Catherine Blanc, Sebastien Chardenoux (+7 others)
2021 bioRxiv   pre-print

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Non-integrative, non-cytopathic and non-inflammatory lentivectors are particularly suitable for mucosal vaccination and recently emerge as a promising strategy to elicit sterilizing prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 in preclinical animal models. Here, we demonstrate that a single intranasal administration of a lentivector encoding a prefusion form of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein induces full protection of respiratory tracts and totally avoids pulmonary inflammation in the susceptible hamster
more » ... . More importantly, we generated a new transgenic mouse strain, expressing the human Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2, with unprecedent brain permissibility to SARS-CoV-2 replication and developing a lethal disease in <4 days post infection. Even though the neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2 is now well established, so far other vaccine strategies under development have not taken into account the protection of central nervous system. Using our highly stringent transgenic model, we demonstrated that an intranasal booster immunization with the developed lentivector vaccine candidate achieves full protection of both respiratory tracts and central nervous system against SARS-CoV-2.
doi:10.1101/2021.02.03.429211 fatcat:nkdh53jh35dkhnvhkvnmzddawa
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Min-Wen Ku, Pierre Authie, Maryline Bourgine, Francois Anna, Amandine Noirat, Fanny Moncoq, Benjamin Vesin, Fabien Nevo, Jodie Lopez, Philippe Souque, Catherine Blanc, Sebastien Chardenoux, Ilta Lafosse, David Hardy, Kirill Nemirov, Francoise Guinet, Francina Langa Vives, Laleh Majlessi, Pierre Charneau. "Full Brain and Lung Prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 by Intranasal Lentiviral Vaccination in a New hACE2 Transgenic Mouse Model or Golden Hamsters." bioRxiv (2021)