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3.2 Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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used yeastderived highmannose glycoproteins as immunogens, presenting
GlcNAc2 glycans in a more dense, nearnative form[56, 57]. Immunization in
Man
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rabbits generated carbohydratespecific antibodies that recognized gp120 and effi­ciently neutralized HIV1 virions expressing highmannose Nglycans but did not neutralize the wildtype virus. Second, considering the rare domainexchange struc­ture of 2G12, this class of bnAbs might be intrinsically difficult to induce, and some animal species may not have the ability to generate this unique and complex anti­body type. Taking these concepts into account, a deeper knowledge of the key fea­tures of 2G12 bnAb evolution in HIV1infected individuals would be essential to design improved synthetic glycoconjugate immunogens that can elicit 2G12 bnAbs, leveraging a suitably devised vaccination approach.
3.2.2 Vaccine Constructs Derived from gp120 First and Second Variable Loops (V1V2)
3.2.2.1 V1V2-Targeting bnAbs
Since 2009, researchers have been continuously discovering new potent human bnAbs, which represents an important springboard toward the identification of new targets for HIV vaccine design. The PG9, PG16, CH01–04, and PGT141–145 antibod­ies were found to target the gp120 V1V2 apex of the HIV1 Env trimer[58–63]. These bnAbs contain a long, anionic CDRH3loop to penetrate the glycan shield and bind a quaternary motif within the first and second variable loops (V1V2). So far, syn­thetic glycanbased vaccine development has centered on the binding sites of PG9, PG16, and CH01 bnAbs, which include similar glycandependent conformational epitopes in the V1V2 region [59, 64]. Specifically, crystal structure studies of the complexes between PG9 and scaffolded V1V2 domains revealed that the antibody interacts with two highmannose glycans at N160 and N156/N173 and a connected V1V2peptide βstrand[65]. While the fine glycan specificities of the bnAb epitopes were yet uncertain, the available structural insights provided an important frame­work for the development of V1V2 carbohydratebased immunogens as synthetic epitope mimics.
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3.2.2.2 Synthetic V1V2 N-Glycopeptide Antigens as bnAb Epitope Mimics
Wang and coworkers designed and chemoenzymatically synthesized a number of gp120 V1V2 cyclic glycopeptides (V154–Y177) based on two HIV1 strains with dif­ferent glycosylation profiles, CAP45 (N156, N160) and ZM109 (N160, N173) (Scheme3.3). Binding analysis by SPR and ELISA revealed that a Man glycan at N160was critical for recognition by PG9 and PG16, while the presence of an additional sialylated complextype oligosaccharide at N156 or N173 further increased the binding affinity[66]. A more efficient chemoenzymatic approach was later developed for the siteselective glycosylation of the peptides with two distinct Nglycans by using orthogonally protected GlcNAcAsn residues[67]. The impor­tant role of the sialylated N‐glycan at the second glycosylation point was also cor­roborated by crystallographic studies with the PG16 bnAb[68]. Subsequently, Wu and coworkers synthesized unusual hybridtype glycans bearing oligomannose and
GlcNAc2
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Scheme 3.3 Chemoenzymatic synthesis of V1V2 glycopeptides.
α2,6sialylated branches and analyzed their binding to PG9 and other bnAbs using glycan arrays. The high affinity obtained for these structures highlighted the critical role that the spatial distance between both glycan arms plays on antibody binding and provided uncommon glycans as potential epitope mimics for vaccine development[69, 70].
Meanwhile, Danishefsky and coworkers prepared several differently glycosylated gp120 V1V2 peptides based on the HIV1 A244 strain (I148–I184) using chemical synthesis (Scheme3.4). The corresponding glycosyl amines derived from Man GlcNAc
and Man3GlcNAc2 were incorporated at the N156 and N160 residues of
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two individual peptides via Lansbury aspartylation, and the resulting fragments were coupled together in unprotected form by native chemical ligation (NCL). Binding studies confirmed the multivalent simultaneous interaction of PG9 with both the peptide backbone and the mannosebearing Nlinked oligosaccharides[71]. In a followup study, these glycopeptides were dimerized through a disulfide bond (C157), which resulted in even higher binding affinities to bnAbs (in the low
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Scheme 3.4 Chemical synthesis of V1V2 glycopeptide.
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nanomolar range) and their unmutated common ancestors [72]. In addition, circular dichroism experiments suggested that not only the Man
/Man3 Nglycans
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but also the disulfide bondmediated dimerization may contribute to the more sta­ble, βstranded conformation necessary for bnAb binding. These results signal the promise of these rationally designed glycopeptide antigens for further development as potential synthetic immunogens to elicit V1V2directed bnAbs.
3.2.3 Vaccine Constructs Derived from gp120 Third Variable Loops (V3)
3.2.3.1 V3-Targeting bnAbs
A majority of PGT bnAbs isolated from HIV1infected elite neutralizers were found to target epitopes on the V3loop involving the N332 glycan and the V3 peptide back­bone [60]. Further detailed characterization of the antibodybinding sites was obtained by crystallographic studies, which revealed an epitope formed by a V3 βstrand and 2 oligomannoses at N332 and N301 for PGT128[73] and a preference toward complextype glycans for PGT121[74].
3.2.3.2 Synthetic Glycoconjugates and N-glycopeptides as V3-Directed bnAb Epitope Mimics
Kosma and collaborators observed that the previously mentioned βlinked Man7 BSA conjugate (see Figure3.1h) bound with high affinity to bnAbs of the PGT128 class and to their common germline precursor[75], likely because of the structural similarities of the bacterial LOS [54] and the PGT128 highmannose glycan epi­tope[73]. In rat immunizations, this glycoconjugate induced reasonable levels of carbohydratespecific IgM antibodies but low IgG titers, suggesting weak immuno­genicity with Bcell activation in the absence of Tcell involvement. Interestingly, immune sera were crossreactive with native gp120 and even exhibited neutralizing activity against some HIV1 strains, presumably due to avid interactions with poly­meric IgMs[75].
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3.2.3.3 Synthetic V3 Glycopeptides as bnAb Epitope Mimics
In 2017, Wang and coworkers applied their glycosynthasebased chemoenzymatic strategy for the synthesis of a gp120 miniV3 glycopeptide derived from the HIV1JRFL strain (E292N339). By using enzymatic transglycosylation and CuAAC cycloaddition, they prepared di and trivalent constructs incorporating the high mannose Man
GlcNAc2 glycan at N332, which were recognized by the PGT128 and
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PGT124like bnAbs [76]. In a related study, the same group pinpointed the fine epitopes of some V3 bnAbs by exploiting differently glycosylated synthetic V3 glyco­peptides (Figure3.2a). Thus, PGT128was found to exhibit binding affinity toward oligomannose glycopeptides with glycosylationsite flexibility (N301/N332), whereas the PG124 homolog recognized only the peptide having a high mannose at N332 and PGT121 required the presence at N301 of a sialylated complextype oligo­saccharide [77]. Later, they conjugated the highmannose V3 glycopeptide (E293N339) to a Thelper epitope from the tetanus toxoid (TT) carrier protein and
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Figure3.2  Synthetic V3-directed bnAb epitope mimics.
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to the Pam3CysSK4 TLR2ligand (as an adjuvant) (Figure3.2b)[78]. In addition to this threecomponent “selfadjuvanting” construct, they also synthesized a trivalent analog presenting three copies of the V3 glycopeptide (Figure3.2c)[79] as well as a monovalent variant with another V3 glycopeptide fragment derived from a different HIV1 strain (A244) (Figure3.2d)[80]. Rabbit vaccination studies with these struc­tures showed induction of glycanspecific antibodies that crossreacted with HIV1 gp120/gp140 but did not neutralize HIV1 virions[78–80].
Separately, Alam etal. designed and synthesized, through a twostep Lansbury aspartylation/NCL strategy, a minimal highmannose V3 glycopeptide (Figure3.2e) that was bound by PGT128 and PGT125[81]. This Man
construct served to isolate
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V3 glycan bnAbs from an HIV1infected individual and elicited highmannose targeted antibodies in vaccinated rhesus macaques, thus mimicking the V3glycan bnAb epitope. However, no HIV1neutralizing activity was observed. In a subse­quent study, Seder and collaborators immunized nonhuman primates with a designed, dendrimerbased star nanoparticle system presenting several copies of a minimal synthetic immunogen consisting of a related V3 glycopeptide and a univer-
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sal CD4
Tcell helper epitope (Pan DRbinding epitope, PADRE). Although high titers of V3sitedirected antibodies were generated, they showed weak affinity for nativelike Env trimers and were not able to neutralize HIV1 virions[82].
Despite important recent progress on the design and evaluation of minimal immunogens based on synthetic V3 Nglycopeptides, V3targeted antibodies with broadly neutralizing activity have also not been generated. In part, this may be due to a different, irrelevant conformation/presentation of the V3 synthetic structures in comparison to that of the native Env glycoprotein epitopes, preventing elicitation of fully functional antibody responses. Moreover, in addition to the unique features of bnAbs, a potential reduction of the Bcell precursor pool because of immune toler­ance could further limit the induction of these bnAbs by vaccination[16]. Preferably, an optimal immunogenic construct should activate these rare naive B cells in a selective manner, whereas further boost immunizations using rationally designed immunogens should ultimately produce bnAbs by driving B cells along desirable maturation pathways. With that objective in mind, the identification of clonally related bnAbs, a suitable Bcelllineage design strategy, and fine structural determi­nation of the epitopes recognized by intermediate Bcell receptors could yield criti­cal insights for the development of effective minimal immunogens for HIV1[83].
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3.3 Influenza A Virus
Influenza virus affects between 10% and 15% of the global population every year. In most cases, infection in healthy individuals results in a mild illness in the upper respiratory tract that does not require any type of surgery. However, it is estimated that between three and five million of these infections cause severe disease that progresses to the lower tract and viral pneumonia, resulting in up to 650 000 deaths
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each year, according to the World Health Organization [1]. Influenza viruses are formed into three different types: A, B, and C, albeit only A and B types seem to be pathogenic in humans. In fact, Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are responsible for the four pandemics that occurred in the last 100 years (1918, 1957, 1968, and 2009).
IAV is a highly mutable virus mostly associated with relatively mild diseases. However, IAV can be lethal to individuals with cardiac or pulmonary affections. On occasion, influenza viruses are transmitted from wild waterfowl to domestic poultry and are able to cause a human influenza pandemic [84]. IAV belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family of enveloped, singlestranded RNA viruses with a genome that encodes several viral proteins, most notably hemagglutinin (HA) and neuramini­dase (NA), and is classified based on 18HA subtypes and 11NA subtypes[85]. Both glycoproteins form the virus surface and are carbohydraterecognizing proteins that function by recognizing sialic acid molecules on the host cell. HA binds sialylated receptors to enable attachment, whereas NA hydrolyzes sialic acid residues to help viral release and infection[86]. There exists a functional crosstalk between both pro­teins in viral attachment/release that depends on the HA glycans[87]. These carbohy­drates play a role in immune evasion and constitute a dynamic glycan shield. While influenza virus vaccines exist, their efficacy is suboptimal due to mismatches between vaccines and circulating viral strains, requiring the development of a broadly protec­tive vaccine to improve overall protection. Approaches are being attempted to attain such a universal vaccine aim to induce Tcell responses, or bnAbs, by targeting differ­ent internal or surface viral antigens, respectively [88]. The latter include the viral surface glycoproteins HA and NA, which are the main targets for the humoral immune response and the basis of currently available influenza vaccines, generating neutralizing antibodies.
3.3.1 Vaccine Constructs Based on Hemagglutinin (HA)
HA is the most abundant protein on the IAV surface. It plays a role in viral entry, is involved in receptor binding and membrane fusion, and is the major target of pro­tective antibody responses upon infection or vaccination. HA is structured as a homotrimer on the surface of the virion, with each monomer comprising two subu­nits (HA1 and HA2) that originate from a distinct polypeptide precursor (HA0)[89]. The HA2 subunit presents a transmembrane region with a rather conserved cyto­plasmatic stem that attaches the HA protein to the virion envelope. The receptor binding site is located in the more variable head domain of the HA1 subunit, which binds sialic acid residues on the hostcell surface, enabling viral entry[90]. Once the virion is internalized, a conformational change in HA exposes the Nterminus fusion peptide of the HA2 subunit stem, facilitating membrane fusion and release of the viral RNA into the cytoplasm of the host cell[91]. As the virion head domain contains the major immunodominant antigenic determinants, neutralizing anti­bodies against influenza are generally addressed to this region, interfering with HA binding to sialic acid and inhibiting its hemagglutination activity[92]. Thus, the hemagglutination inhibition test is used as a surrogate measurement to titrate the antibody response (antiIAVneutralizing antibodies) against influenza[93].
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3.3.1.1 Hyperglycosylated HA Vaccines
In the design of vaccines directed to the more conserved HA stem domain, one strat­egy to increase stemspecific responses is to hyperglycosylate the variable HA1 head region in order to hide their immunodominant epitopes, thus directing the response to the stem[94]. Some studies showed that hyperglycosylated HA1induced stronger antistem antibodies against the homologous H1 stem than wildtype HA[95]. The hyperglycosylated H1 also stimulated more crossreactive antibodies to two heter­ologous H1 viruses and a heterosubtypic H5 virus. This strategy was also applied to the H5 stem, but it did not result in relevant antibody responses to other group1 subtypes (H1, H3, and H9)[96]. Despite the increased antistem antibodies com­pared to wildtype HA, vaccination did not protect mice from critical influenza mor­bidity. Another example of this hyperglycosylation strategy has been used with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 viruses. The transmission capabil­ity of this virus from birds to humans has raised global concerns about a potential human pandemic. In these studies, hyperglycosylated HA vaccines were designed using Nlinked glycan masking on highly variable sequences in the HA1 head domain[97]. Immunization with these hyperglycosylated HA DNA vaccines, fol­lowed by a flagellincontaining viruslike particle booster, was conducted in mice to evaluate neutralizing antibody responses against various clades of HPAI H5N1 viruses. However, no significant differences in antiHA total Ig titers were found with these hyperglycosylated HA compared to the wildtype control.
A general approach to improve influenza vaccine’s potency is the addition of adju­vants that increase antigen immunogenicity [98]. Thus, aluminum phosphate (alum) has been coadministered in HAbased DNA vaccines to enhance antibody production[99], and together with the oilinwater MF59 and AS03, these are the three main adjuvants incorporated in licensed flu vaccines[100]. Other immunopo­tentiating substances, such as stimulatory glycolipids functioning as invariant natu­ral killer T (iNKT) cell activators, have also been reported to exhibit adjuvant activities in protein and DNA vaccines[101].
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3.3.1.2 α-Gal-Based Vaccine Constructs
An important stage for stimulating an adaptative immune response is the presenta­tion of antigen fragments on the surface of antigenpresenting cells (APCs). αGalactosylceramide (αGalCer) was the first synthetic iNKT activator discovered, which was derived from a natural product extracted from marine sponges [102, 103]. Some research studies have included the αGalCer glycolipid as a vaccine adjuvant against influenza[104, 105], while various delivery systems have also been developed (e.g. poly(lacticcoglycolic acid) [PLGA] particles) to enhance its immu­nostimulatory properties and boost the immune response[106]. Moreover, recent developments in glycoconjugate vaccines are based on chemical combination of adjuvants (e.g. αGalCer) and relevant carbohydrate antigens, which enables codelivering of both vaccine components to the same immune cell for boosting the immune response[107].
This strategy of covalent conjugation was used by Anderson etal. for the develop­ment of a synthetic, influenzatargeting vaccine [108]. As opposed to antibodies
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Figure3.3  Antigen–α-GalCer prodrug conjugate vaccine against influenza
challenge[108]. (a) CuAAC-coupled α-GalCer prodrug linker–SLP conjugate. (b) SPAAC­coupled α-GalCer prodrug linker–SLP conjugate. R represents the synthetic long peptide (SLP) containing an immunogenic sequence that involves the T-cell CD8
and CD4
sequence (FFRK).
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binding cell surface HA, IAVspecific T cells recognize primarily conserved epitopes from internal viral proteins[109]. Thus, Painter and coworkers used click chemistry (CuAAC, Figure3.3a; strainpromoted alkyne–azide cycloaddition SPAAC, Figure3.3b) to link an αGalCer prodrug derivative to a synthetic long peptide (SLP) from a virus
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associated protein incorporating a wellknown CD8
Tcell epitope from ovalbumin (OVA, see “R” substituent in Figure3.3). In vivo studies in mice vaccinated with the SPAACcoupled αGalCer prodrug–SLP conjugate (Figure3.3b) and challenged with a recombinant OVAmodified influenza virus showed induction of peptidespecific, memory Tcell responses that were protective against IAV infection[108].
In another approach, Galili and coworkers developed a carbohydratebased method that leveraged the mechanism of antibodydependent antigen uptake with a view to enhancing the immunogenicity of influenza vaccines[110]. Given the abundance of natural antiGal antibodies in humans, the authors incorporated a synthetic αGal epitope into the Nglycans of HA by applying a chemoenzymatic strategy that used α1,3galactosyltransferase (α1,3GT)[111]. As such, modification of the virus Nglycans using recombinant α1,3GT generated an influenza virus strain incorporating the αGal epitope. This engineered HA glycoprotein was bound by natural antiGal antibodies, leading to the formation of immune complexes, which results in targeting and uptake of the modified vaccine virus by APCs for stimulation of virusspecific T cells in the lymph nodes. In their study, mice vacci­nated with this αGalcoated viral construct induced substantially increased anti­body and cellular responses with higher protection than those immunized with the unmodified virus strain[110].
3.3.2 Vaccine Constructs Based on Neuraminidase (NA)
NA is the second most abundant glycoprotein on the viral surface and is implicated in viral delivery and propagation from infected cells. NA enables the release of line­age viruses from the host cell by cleaving terminal sialic acid from glycans both on the host cell and on the emerging virion[86]. Due to its role in the virusreplication
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cycle, NA has traditionally been a key target for antivirals or therapeutics based on inhibition of NA activity, including the commonly used oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza)[112]. Nonetheless, accumulated scientific evidence is leading to growing interest in considering NA as a target for vaccine design in the context of humoral immunity [113]. Thus, infectioninduced human antibodies against NA were crossreactive and able to inhibit the protein sialidase activity, blocking viral egress and providing protection from lethal influenza virus in mice[114, 115]. The major advantage of NA is its slower antigen evolution and the subsequent ability to induce longer lasting immunity and crossprotection than that offered by HA vac­cines [116]. While the promise of natural NAbased immunity warrants further investigation into the inclusion of this glycoprotein in nextgeneration influenza vaccines targeting NA, there are still many knowledge gaps, including those regard­ing its immunogenicity, protection breadth, and mechanism, as well as the nature of the antigenic sites [117]. Notably, recent structural advances have yielded key insights into targeted epitopes and the basis of protection of antiNA antibodies, providing templates for the rational design of NAbased vaccines and therapeutic agents[118, 119].
3.3.3  Acetalated Dextran asAdjuvant Carrier
Acetalated dextran (AcDex) is a pHresponsive polysaccharide that can be readily synthesized from dextran through acetal formation with 2methoxypropene. AcDex is not soluble in water but is able to form microparticles loaded with differ­ent encapsulated cargoes by using emulsion techniques, releasing its content under acidic conditions [120]. It has been used as a vaccine carrier system to increase immune activation[121], whereby its microparticles can deliver the immunostimu­latory agents (e.g. antigens and/or adjuvants) as a combined vaccine formulation, as shown against influenza and other infections[107].
This combination strategy was later used to apply the cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate (cGAMP)encapsulated AcDex toge­ther with soluble HA from the H1N1 subtype for antiinfluenza vaccination [122]. This vaccine system induced a potent Th1skewed neutralizing antibody response in mice, providing more than sixmonth protection from a lethal H1N1 challenge. In another example, Ainslie and coworkers coformulated cGAMP and the ectodomain of the surface protein matrix 2 (M2e), both encapsulated within separate AcDex par­ticles, as an antiinfluenza vaccine, which induced protective antibody and cellular immune responses[123].
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3.3.4  Multivalent Constructs asAnti-Influenza Inhibitors
The multivalent interactions between HA and sialic acid residues on cellsurface receptors are the first step leading to viral internalization and consequent infection. Thus, for competitively blocking virus attachment to cells, synthetic multivalent glycoconjugates have been developed as inhibitors of influenza infection by using
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different scaffolds (e.g. dendrimers, proteins, and gold nanoparticles) decorated with numerous copies of sialic acid[124, 125].
Whitesides and coworkers introduced the first multivalent entry blockers in the 1990s. They developed α-sialoside–polyacrylamide copolymers that inhibited IAV adhesion to erythrocytes (measured as hemagglutination) more than 10 000 times more efficiently than its α-methyl sialoside monomer[126], in line with their greater binding affinity observed to the viral surface due to cooperative multivalent interac­tions[127]. Optimization studies led to high-affinity (in the nanomolar range) sialic aciddecorated polyacrylamidebased polymers[128] that, despite their considera­ble inhibitory potential, showed high cytotoxicity associated with their polyacryla­mide backbone [129]. Additional designed multivalent conjugates consisted of polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers displaying sialyllactose, which showed invitro micromolar inhibition and protected mice from H1N1lethal challenge[130]. Haag and collaborators investigated other dendritic multivalent nanostructures based on chemical functionalization of gold nanoparticles[131, 132] and biocom­patible polyglycerol nanogels (nPG) with sialic acidterminated dendrons [133]. These carbohydrate nanosystems had high affinity for HA and showed 30% and 80% influenza infection inhibition, respectively. Another multivalent construct involved covalent conjugation of many copies of the antiinfluenza drug zanamivir to a poly glutamine scaffold, which led to zanamivir glycopolymers with enhanced potency (subnanomolar) that inhibited influenza viral fusion and release [134]. Overall, these examples highlight the importance of HA as a key target for further develop­ment of multivalent glycoconjugates as potential antiinfluenza vaccines and drug candidates for the inhibition of influenza infection.
Among the options available to fight IAV, the most effective means to prevent influenza is through a universal vaccine that is broadly protective and does not need seasonal modification. With this aim, the development of such vaccine constructs should focus on conserved viral glycoproteins that are shared between virus strains and subtypes and can induce both antibody and cellular responses, providing effec­tive crossreactive immunity and prophylactic protection against IAV infection. Despite extensive research efforts in this direction by the scientific community, there is still a long pathway ahead to achieve more efficient and safer influenza vac­cines, especially under the increasing threat of emerging global pandemics.
3.4 Hepatitis C Virus
Currently, hepatitis C virus (HCV) affects over 70 million people worldwide and has become the most important chronic liver disease, with the risk of developing into cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCV belongs to the Flavi- viridae family and consists of an enveloped positivesense singlestranded RNA virus that has six major genotypes and multiple subtypes[135, 136]. The HCV genome encodes one polyprotein precursor processed into three structural pro­teins (core protein and envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2) and seven nonstructural (NS) proteins[137]. The surface glycoproteins E1 and E2 contain around 5 and 11