ChAdOx1 COVID vaccines express RBD open prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spikes on the cell surface

Tao Ni; Luiza Mendonça; Yanan Zhu; Andrew Howe; Julika Radecke; Pranav M. Shah; Yuewen Sheng; Anna Sophia Krebs; Helen M.E. Duyvesteyn; Elizabeth Allen; Teresa Lambe; Cameron Bisset; Alexandra Spencer; Susan Morris; David I. Stuart; Sarah Gilbert; Peijun Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.107882

ChAdOx1 COVID vaccines express RBD open prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spikes on the cell surface

Tao Ni, Luiza Mendonça, Yanan Zhu, Andrew Howe, Julika Radecke, Pranav M. Shah, Yuewen Sheng, Anna Sophia Krebs, Helen M.E. Duyvesteyn, Elizabeth Allen, Teresa Lambe, Cameron Bisset, Alexandra Spencer, Susan Morris, David I. Stuart, Sarah Gilbert, Peijun Zhang

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Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been proven to be an effective means of decreasing COVID-19 mortality, hospitalization rates, and transmission. One of the vaccines deployed worldwide is ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, which uses an adenovirus vector to drive the expression of the original SARS-CoV-2 spike on the surface of transduced cells. Using cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging, we determined the native structures of the vaccine product expressed on cell surfaces in situ. We show that ChAdOx1-vectored vaccines expressing the Beta SARS-CoV-2 variant produce abundant native prefusion spikes predominantly in one-RBD-up conformation. Furthermore, the ChAdOx1-vectored HexaPro-stabilized spike yields higher cell surface expression, enhanced RBD exposure, and reduced shedding of S1 compared to the wild type. We demonstrate in situ structure determination as a powerful means for studying antigen design options in future vaccine development against emerging novel SARS-CoV-2 variants and broadly against other infectious viruses.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	107882
Journal	iScience
Volume	26
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107882
State	Published - Oct 20 2023
Externally published	Yes

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Ni, T., Mendonça, L., Zhu, Y., Howe, A., Radecke, J., Shah, P. M., Sheng, Y., Krebs, A. S., Duyvesteyn, H. M. E., Allen, E., Lambe, T., Bisset, C., Spencer, A., Morris, S., Stuart, D. I., Gilbert, S., & Zhang, P. (2023). ChAdOx1 COVID vaccines express RBD open prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spikes on the cell surface. iScience, 26(10), Article 107882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107882

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