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Development of a Bicistronic Yellow Fever Live Attenuated Vaccine with Reduced Neurovirulence and Viscerotropism. | LitMetric

Development of a Bicistronic Yellow Fever Live Attenuated Vaccine with Reduced Neurovirulence and Viscerotropism.

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Department of Virology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), Beijing, China.

Published: October 2022

The yellow fever (YF) live attenuated vaccine strain 17D (termed 17D) has been widely used for the prevention and control of YF disease. However, 17D retains significant neurovirulence and viscerotropism in mice, which is probably linked to the increased occurrences of serious adverse events following 17D vaccination. Thus, the development of an updated version of the YF vaccine with an improved safety profile is of high priority. Here, we generated a viable bicistronic YF virus (YFV) by incorporating the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) from virus into an infectious clone of YFV 17D. The resulting recombinant virus, 17D-IRES, exhibited similar replication efficiency to its parental virus (17D) in mammalian cell lines, while it was highly restricted in mosquito cells. Serial passage of 17D-IRES in BHK-21 cells showed good genetic stability. More importantly, in comparison with the parental 17D, 17D-IRES displayed significantly decreased mouse neurovirulence and viscerotropism in type I interferon (IFN)-signaling-deficient and immunocompetent mouse models. Interestingly, 17D-IRES showed enhanced sensitivity to type I IFN compared with 17D. Moreover, immunization with 17D-IRES provided solid protection for mice against a lethal challenge with YFV. These preclinical data support further development of 17D-IRES as an updated version for the approved YF vaccine. This IRES-based attenuation strategy could be also applied to the design of live attenuated vaccines against other mosquito-borne flaviviruses. Yellow fever (YF) continually spreads and causes epidemics around the world, posing a great threat to human health. The YF live attenuated vaccine 17D is considered the most efficient vaccine available and helps to successfully control disease epidemics. However, side effects may occur after vaccination, such as viscerotropic disease (YEL-AVD) and neurotropic adverse disease (YEL-AND). Thus, there is an urgent need for a safer YF vaccine. Here, an IRES strategy was employed, and a bicistronic YFV was successfully developed (named 17D-IRES). 17D-IRES showed effective replication and genetic stability and high attenuation . Importantly, 17D-IRES induced humoral and cellular immune responses and conferred full protection against lethal YFV challenge. Our study provides data suggesting that 17D-IRES, with its prominent advantages, could be a vaccine candidate against YF. Moreover, this IRES-based bicistronic technology platform represents a promising strategy for developing other live attenuated vaccines against emerging viruses.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602263PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02246-22DOI Listing

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