Accelerated vaccination for Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever in non-human primates

Containment of highly lethal Ebola virus outbreaks poses a serious public health challenge. Although an experimental vaccine has successfully protected non-human primates against disease, more than six months was required to complete the immunizations, making it impractical to limit an acute epidemic. Here, we report the development of accelerated vaccination against Ebola virus in non-human primates. The antibody response to immunization with an adenoviral (ADV) vector encoding the Ebola glycoprotein (GP) was induced more rapidly than with DNA priming and ADV boosting, but it was of lower magnitude. To determine whether this earlier immune response could nonetheless protect against disease, cynomolgus macaques were challenged with Ebola virus after vaccination with ADV-GP and nucleoprotein (NP) vectors. Protection was highly effective and correlated with the generation of Ebola-specific CD8(+) T-cell and antibody responses. Even when animals were immunized once with ADV-GP/NP and challenged 28 days later, they remained resistant to challenge with either low or high doses of virus. This accelerated vaccine provides an intervention that may help to limit the epidemic spread of Ebola, and is applicable to other viruses.     

键联于核酸的激发态水溶铜卟啉共振拉曼光谱研究

本文测量了键联于核酸的激发态水溶铜卟啉共振拉曼光谱.结果表明,位于1550cm~(-1)和1346cm~(-1)附近的两条谱带归属于受激铜卟啉拉曼带,其强度与核酸和铜卟啉的种类、核酸所含的(AT)_n结构和受激铜卟啉沟槽键联于核酸的能力有关.文中对插入DNA中GC位置上的基态铜卟啉在受激状态下能沟槽键联于—ATAT一位置这一现象作了定性的解释.