Bringing immunofocusing into focus

S Musunuri, PAB Weidenbacher, PS Kim - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Immunofocusing is a strategy to create immunogens that redirect humoral immune
responses towards a targeted epitope and away from non-desirable epitopes …

Chemical and biological conjugation strategies for the development of multivalent protein vaccine nanoparticles

J Park, T Pho, JA Champion - Biopolymers, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of subunit vaccine platforms has been of considerable interest due to their
good safety profile and ability to be adapted to new antigens, compared to other vaccine …

Vaccine design via antigen reorientation

D Xu, JJ Carter, C Li, A Utz, PAB Weidenbacher… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
A major challenge in creating universal influenza vaccines is to focus immune responses
away from the immunodominant, variable head region of hemagglutinin (HA-head) and …

A novel “prime and pull” strategy mediated by the combination of two dendritic cell-targeting designs induced protective lung tissue-resident memory T cells against …

Z Wang, Y He, W Wang, Y Tian, C Ge, F Jia… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Vaccination is still the most promising strategy for combating influenza virus pandemics.
However, the highly variable characteristics of influenza virus make it difficult to develop …

Multivalent S2 subunit vaccines provide broad protection against Clade 1 sarbecoviruses in female mice

PJ Halfmann, RS Patel, K Loeffler, A Yasuhara… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The continuing emergence of immune evasive SARS-CoV-2 variants and the previous
SARS-CoV-1 outbreak collectively underscore the need for broadly protective sarbecovirus …

Antigen spacing on protein nanoparticles influences antibody responses to vaccination

D Ellis, A Dosey, S Boyoglu-Barnum, YJ Park… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Immunogen design approaches aim to control the specificity and quality of antibody
responses elicited by next-generation vaccines. Here, we use computational protein design …

Engineering a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Targeting the Receptor-Binding Domain Cryptic-Face via Immunofocusing

TUJ Bruun, J Do, PAB Weidenbacher, A Utz… - ACS Central …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the main target of
neutralizing antibodies. Although they are infrequently elicited during infection or …

Nanoparticle display of neuraminidase elicits enhanced antibody responses and protection against influenza A virus challenge

MN Pascha, M Ballegeer, MC Roelofs, L Meuris… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Current Influenza virus vaccines primarily induce antibody responses against variable
epitopes in hemagglutinin (HA), necessitating frequent updates. However, antibodies …

Single immunization with an influenza hemagglutinin nanoparticle‐based vaccine elicits durable protective immunity

S Chiba, T Maemura, K Loeffler, SJ Frey… - Bioengineering & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Vaccination is the most effective strategy to combat influenza. Ideally, potent and persistent
vaccine effects would be induced with a single vaccine dose. Here, we designed a virus‐like …

Engineering a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine targeting the RBD cryptic-face via immunofocusing

TUJ Bruun, J Do, PAB Weidenbacher, PS Kim - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the main target of
neutralizing antibodies. Although they are infrequently elicited during infection or …