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Restrained expansion of the recall germinal center response as biomarker of protection for influenza vaccination in mice.
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PloS one [PLoS One] 2019 Nov 14; Vol. 14 (11), pp. e0225063. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 14 (Print Publication: 2019). - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Correlates of protection (CoP) are invaluable for iterative vaccine design studies, especially in pursuit of complex vaccines such as a universal influenza vaccine (UFV) where a single antigen is optimized to elicit broad protection against many viral antigenic variants. Since broadly protective antibodies against influenza virus often exhibit mutational evidence of prolonged diversification, we studied germinal center (GC) kinetics in hemagglutinin (HA) immunized mice. Here we report that as early as 4 days after secondary immunization, the expansion of HA-specific GC B cells inversely correlated to protection against influenza virus challenge, induced by the antigen. In contrast, follicular T helper (TFH) cells did not expand differently after boost vaccination, suggestive of a B-cell intrinsic difference in activation and differentiation inferred by protective antigen properties. Importantly, differences in antigen dose only affected GC B-cell frequencies after primary immunization. The absence of accompanying differences in total anti-HA or epitope-specific antibody levels induced by vaccines of different efficacy suggests that the GC B-cell response upon revaccination represents an early and unique marker of protection that may significantly accelerate the pre-clinical phase of vaccine development.<br />Competing Interests: All the authors that contributed to this manuscript are/were employees of Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V., a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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- Animals
Antibodies, Neutralizing immunology
Antibodies, Viral immunology
Disease Models, Animal
Germinal Center metabolism
Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus immunology
Immunization
Mice
Biomarkers
Germinal Center immunology
Immunologic Memory
Influenza Vaccines immunology
Orthomyxoviridae Infections immunology
Orthomyxoviridae Infections prevention & control
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1932-6203
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31725776
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225063