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Vaccine Detail

Puumala virus PUUVsSgp1 (NP) protein vaccine
Vaccine Information
  • Vaccine Name: Puumala virus PUUVsSgp1 (NP) protein vaccine
  • Target Pathogen: Hantavirus
  • Target Disease: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
  • Vaccine Ontology ID: VO_0011400
  • Type: Subunit vaccine
  • Status: Research
  • Antigen: Puumala virus nucleocapsid protein (PUUVsSgp1)
  • PUUVsSgp1 gene engineering:
    • Type: Recombinant protein preparation
    • Description: N proteins from PUUV, TOPV, ANDV, and DOBV, carrying a polyhistidine tag to facilitate protein purification, were produced in Escherichia coli cells. The N ORF of PUUV, TOPV, and DOBV were cloned into the pQE-32 vector (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany), while the N ORF of ANDV was cloned into pRSET (R&D Systems Europe, Oxford, United Kingdom). An irrelevant protein, mouse dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) (Qiagen), provided by the manufacturer and expressed in the same system, was used as a negative control protein (de et al., 2002).
    • Detailed Gene Information: Click Here.
  • Adjuvant:
  • Adjuvant:
Host Response

Bank vole Response

  • Vaccination Protocol: To asses the immunogenicity and protective capacity of the expressed rN proteins, 4- to 10-week-old bank voles, derived from a PUUV-free colony established with animals captured in Sweden, were immunized with purified PUUV, TOPV, ANDV, or DOBV rN or DHFR control protein. Bank voles were immunized three times with 50 μg of protein at intervals of 3 weeks. The animals were injected with protein emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant, incomplete Freund's adjuvant, and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), respectively (de et al., 2002).
  • Challenge Protocol: Bank voles were challenged subcutaneously 2 weeks after the last immunization with approximately 20 50% infective doses of wild-type PUUV (strain Kazan) (de et al., 2002).
  • Efficacy: To investigate the ability of recombinant N (rN, nucleocapsid proteins) from different hantaviruses to elicit cross-protection, we immunized bank voles with rN from Puumala (PUUV), Topografov (TOPV), Andes (ANDV), and Dobrava (DOBV) viruses and subsequently challenged them with PUUV. All animals immunized with PUUV (PUUVsSgp1) and TOPV rN were completely protected (de et al., 2002).
References
de Carvalho Nicacio et al., 2002: de Carvalho Nicacio C, Gonzalez Della Valle M, Padula P, Bjorling E, Plyusnin A, Lundkvist A. Cross-protection against challenge with Puumala virus after immunization with nucleocapsid proteins from different hantaviruses. Journal of virology. 2002 Jul; 76(13); 6669-77. [PubMed: 12050380].