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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-7-18
pubmed:abstractText
The causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been identified as SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), but the prophylactic treatment of SARS-CoV is still under investigation. We constructed a recombinant adenovirus containing a truncated N-terminal fragment of the SARS-CoV Spike (S) gene (from--45 to 1469, designated Ad-S(N)), which encoded a truncated S protein (490 amino-acid residues, a part of 672 amino-acid S1 subunit), and investigated whether this construct could induce effective immunity against SARS-CoV in Wistar rats. Rats were immunized either subcutaneously or intranasally with Ad-S(N) once a week for three consecutive weeks. Our results showed that all of the immunized animals generated humoral immunity against the SARS-CoV spike protein, and the sera of immunized rats showed strong capable of protecting from SARS-CoV infection in vitro. Histopathological examination did not find evident side effects in the immunized animals. These results indicate that an adenoviral-based vaccine carrying an N-terminal fragment of the Spike gene is able to elicit strong SARS-CoV-specific humoral immune responses in rats, and may be useful for the development of a protective vaccine against SARS-CoV infection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0168-1702
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
112
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
24-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Adenoviridae, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Antibody Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Genetic Vectors, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Neutralization Tests, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-SARS Virus, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Vaccination, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Vero Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Viral Envelope Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16022898-Viral Vaccines
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Adenoviral expression of a truncated S1 subunit of SARS-CoV spike protein results in specific humoral immune responses against SARS-CoV in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
State Key Laboratory for Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, 651 Dong-feng Road East, Guangzhou 510060, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't