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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Loes AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552029 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viruses 20200905 9
An effective vaccine is essential for controlling the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here, we describe an influenza virus-based vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. We incorporated a membrane-anchored form of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain (RBD) in place of the neuraminidase (NA) coding sequence in an influenza virus also possessing a mutation that reduces the affinity of hemagglutinin for its sialic acid receptor. The resulting ΔNA(RBD)-Flu virus can be generated by reverse genetics and grown ...[more]