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2 Antifungal Glycoconjugate Vaccines
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immune responses in the animal model, although the antibody responses were not protective[58, 59]. Further studies are, therefore, needed to clarify, possibly with the use of synthetic glycans as done for GXM, whether there are protective epitopes expressed on the polysaccharide (Figure2.3).
2.6 Glycoconjugate Vaccines Against
Aspergillus fumigatus
Similarly to other fungi, the CW of A. fumigatus, which is a main cause of pulmo­nary infections in immunocompromised patients, is dominated by carbohydrates, and its general composition not only comprises β‐glucans crosslinked to chitin but also an extracellular matrix (ECM) composed of polysaccharides, mainly α‐(1,3) glucan and galactosaminogalactan (GAG), creating a cell surface structure that is thought to be crucial to pathogenic expression. GAG consists of galactose (Gal), galactosamine (GalN), and N‐acetylgalactosamine residues (GalNAc)[60].
The presence of α‐(1→3)‐glucans on their surface is shared by Cryptococcus and
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The protective evidence of carbohydrate antigens from Aspergillus still needs to be deeply investigated. To address this, many research groups have recently focused on the synthesis of carbohydrate components of A. fumigatus to obtain synthetic oligo­saccharides, which could aid to characterize structure–immunogenicity relation­ships of the cell‐wall glycans. Nifantiev and coworkers synthesized, in 2015, an α‐(1,3) pentaglucoside and then conjugated it with BSA (11)[62]. Immunization of mice with the BSA conjugate induced the generation of antibodies that recognize α‐(1→3)‐glucan on A. fumigatus CW and distinguish its morphotypes [62, 63]. Recently, the same group directed their synthetic efforts toward the preparation of oligo‐α‐(1,4) GalNs and their N‐acetylated derivatives (12) [64–66]. After biotinyla­tion, synthetic glycans were used as molecular probes in glycoarrays against sera from patients infected with pulmonary aspergillosis. Such investigations showed that human IgGs recognized both acetylated and non‐acetylated oligo‐GalNs with a degree of polymerization of at least 3. In the same direction, Codée, Barbero, and coworkers synthesized GAG structures (13 and 14), identifying a synthetic methodol­ogy for the assembly of GAG‐oligomers capable of incorporating possible variations
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of the natural structures[67]. The conformation of the synthesized oligosaccharides was investigated by molecular dynamics and NMR experiments, and these glycans may find application in future binding studies to establish GAG epitopes, which can be used in the development of glycoconjugate vaccines against A. fumigatus (Figure2.4).
2.7 Universal Fungal Polysaccharide Antigens
β‐glucans are present in a conserved layer of the CW across many fungal species and, therefore, are an appealing target for the development of an effective “pan‐ fungal vaccine”[68]. The algae‐derived sugar Laminarin conjugated to the nontoxic mutant of diphtheria toxin CRM infection model against both systemic candidiasis and aspergillosis [17]. Saccharomyces cerevisiae β‐glucans induced a protective response to coccidioidomy- cosis and aspergillosis[69–71] in a murine model, confirming the potential of these carbohydrate antigens as tools for pan‐fungal vaccination.
Another potential target that has been studied for the potential development of a vaccine targeting multiple fungi is the poly‐N‐acetyl‐1,6‐glucosamine (PNAG), which has been detected on the surface of C. albicans. An anti‐PNAG mAb, mAb F598, and polyclonal serum from mice immunized with a synthetic nonasaccha­ride, analog of deacetylated PNAG and conjugated to TT, provided protection in a mouse model of C. albicans keratitis [72] and were able to kill A. fumigatus and
Fusarium solani in an opsonophagocytosis assay and to protect mice from A. fumig- atus keratitis[73].
has been shown to induce protection in a murine
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2.8 Conclusions and Future Prospects
IFIs are becoming an increasing threat in nosocomial settings due to increasing life expectancy, especially in the presence of underlying medical conditions such as cancer, HIV, or other immunosuppressive diseases. Current pharmaceutical treat­ments of fungal infections consist of a few old drugs with severe adverse events, while some fungal pathogens are starting to represent a concern for the emergence of antimicrobial‐resistant strains. Preventive therapies such as vaccination, relying on the host immune response to fungal antigens, can represent an interesting alter­native for IFIs in immunosuppressed patients and/or for recurrent mucosal infec­tions in healthy people, such as vulvovaginal candidiasis. Polysaccharides are the main component of the fungal CW and are, therefore, regarded as potential vaccine antigens upon conjugation to carrier proteins, providing the T‐cell help needed for the formation of memory B cells. However, the complexity of the fungal CW makes it very difficult to establish a correlation between oligosaccharide structures and immunogenicity. For this reason, many attempts have been made over the years to elucidate the glyco‐epitopes expressed on the CW polysaccharides with the aim of
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Carbohydrate-Based Antiviral Vaccines
Adrián Plata1 and Alberto Fernández-Tejada
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Technology Park, Building 801A, Derio, Biscay 48160, Spain
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Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Euskadi Plaza, 5, Bilbao, Biscay 48009, Spain
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3.1 Introduction
Carbohydrates play a critical role in numerous infections caused by viruses that are responsible for many diseases, including common cold, influenza[1], the more seri­ous acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) [2], and different forms of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), best exemplified by the current, devastat­ing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) pandemic due to the severe acute respira­tory syndrome coronavirus2 (SARSCoV2) virus [3]. In addition to infectious diseases caused by viral infections, some viruses are at the origin of several human cancers, most notably liver cancers resulting from chronic infections by hepatitis B and C viruses[4] and cervical cancers associated with longlasting infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV)[5]. To fight against these serious diseases, the impor­tance of safe, potent vaccines and therapeutic approaches is clear, contributing to the prevention and treatment of such viral infections for global health. A number of antiviral vaccines containing liveattenuated or inactivated viruses have been very effective in combating and even eradicating several viral infectious diseases in recent history, e.g. polio, measles, mumps, rabies, varicella, and smallpox [6]. However, this traditional approach has not been fully successful for some chronic and reemerging viral diseases, such as HIV, influenza, or hepatitis C. As such, the development of modern subunit vaccines based on purified and structurally defined immunogenic elements of a specific virus has become a preferred preventative strat­egy due to their improved safety and more precise immune targeting[6].
Carbohydrates are ubiquitous on many viral surface proteins and are crucially involved in viral pathobiology. Viral protein glycosylation plays pivotal functional roles in the infectious process[7], from initial adherence of the virus and tissue invasion to protection from the immune system, by mimicking the hostcell “self”
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glycans, particularly Nglycans [8], by hijacking cellular glycosylation. Thus, in addition to the own viral genome information, the biosynthetic machinery and gly­can processing events within the infected cell have important implications for shap­ing viral protein glycosylation. This provides further structural diversity for the virus beyond that arising from potential mutations occurring during virus evolu­tion, impacting their virulence, infectivity, and immunogenicity[9].
Thus, realizing the importance of viral glycosylation and diversity in driving viral pathogenesis has provided fertile ground to exploit carbohydrates on the virus sur­face for the development of antiviral vaccines and therapeutic strategies using chemical approaches. In this chapter, we describe key and recent developments in synthetic carbohydratebased vaccines against representative viral diseases (e.g. HIV, influenza, hepatitis, Ebola, and COVID19), while also providing some exam­ples of glycanbased immunoadjuvants and therapeutic agents.
3.2 Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV1) is the causative agent of AIDS, a pandemic that has affected more than 76 over 33
million deaths (680 000 of them in 2020) because of AIDSrelated dis­eases[2]. As such, the development of an effective and safe prophylactic vaccine against HIV1 is of critical importance for global health. However, only a few clini­cal trials over the last decade have shown a positive outcome in terms of preventing HIV1. The most successful results correspond to the RV144 efficacy trial, which used a replicationdefective canarypox vector (ALVAC) together with the recombi­nant AIDSVAX B/E HIV1 gp120 protein. Despite its promise, the protected efficacy of this vaccine was around 31%, mainly attributed to the synergistic contribution of both humoral and cellular immune responses[10, 11]. Therefore, the development of a successful HIV1 vaccine still poses a significant scientific challenge, whereby induction of both neutralizing antibodies and Tcell responses should be ideal for optimal vaccine efficacy[12].
The HIV1 virus surface is covered by a dense sugar coat, with the envelope glyco­protein (Env) spike being extensively glycosylated with hostsynthesized carbohy­drates that mask the protein antigens from immune recognition[13]. This, together with the high level of genetic diversity of the virus due to its high tendency to mutate, promotes viral escape from the host immune system. The HIV1 Env is a trimer composed of three gp120–gp41 heterodimers consisting of the gp120 surface glycoprotein noncovalently associated with the gp41 transmembrane glycoprotein. Gp120 is heavily glycosylated with an extensive array of Nlinked carbohydrates that constitute more than 50% of its total mass. These oligosaccharides form a dense glycan shield that covers the protein surface and contributes to immune evasion by hindering immune recognition of the underlying peptide epitopes by naturally induced broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) [14, 15]. Recent reports have shown that around 20% of HIV1infected individuals have circulating bnAbs,
million people since its onset in 1981, with
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which are characterized by special, uncommon features (e.g. extensive somatic hypermutation, long heavychain third complementaritydetermining regions [CDRH3], and/or self or polyreactive nature) that make it difficult to induce such bnAbs by a designed HIV vaccine [16]. Notably, all bnAbs isolated sofar target specific, conserved regions of vulnerability of the HIV1 Env, particularly within established glycan/peptide domains corresponding to the gp120 variable loops 1/2 (V1V2) and 3 (V3), the CD4binding site (CD4bs) on gp120, the bridging region between gp120 and gp41, and the gp41 membraneproximal external region (MPER)[17]. Therefore, these bnAb epitopes represent promising targets for HIV1 vaccine design, with the main goal of inducing such type of bnAb with the ability to neutralize multiple, diverse HIV1 strains.
Given the key role of the HIV1 glycans in viral transmission and infection as well as in masking the protein antigens for immune escape, the Env surface glycans are a primary target for the design of effective HIV1 vaccines[13, 18]. In this context, the development of carbohydratebased synthetic immunogens as minimal struc­tural mimics of several bnAb epitopes has emerged as an important strategy in an attempt to develop vaccines capable of inducing bnAbs with safer and more precise immune targeting. This section describes the most significant milestones in the syn­thesis and immunological testing of glycanbased epitope mimics as promising tar­gets for the development of bnAbeliciting HIV1 vaccine candidates[19, 20]. We summarize recent advances on carbohydratebased minimal immunogen design for the induction of glycanrecognizing bnAbs that target three key domains on gp120: the outer domain highmannose glycan cluster around N332 and the conserved glycopeptidedependent epitopes in the V1V2 and V3loops, respectively.
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3.2.1 Vaccine Constructs Derived from gp120 High-Mannose N-Glycan Cluster
3.2.1.1 Surface Oligomannose Cluster-Targeting bnAb: 2G12 Antibody
The monoclonal antibody 2G12was the first bnAb identified to bind the HIV1 gly­can shield. It was isolated from an HIV1positive patient and has been found to neutralize an array of HIV1 virions[21] as well as to protect against simianhuman immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) via passive immunization in macaques[22, 23]. As shown by epitope mapping studies, 2G12 recognizes a conserved highmannose car­bohydrate cluster on the gp120 surface that includes primarily Nglycans at the N295, N332, and N392 positions [24]. Moreover, the Manα1→2Man disaccharide terminus was identified as a critical motif for binding[25]. The crystal structure of 2G12 showed an unusual assembly of two Fab (fragment antigen binding) regions into an interlocked V
domainswapped dimer, yielding an extended multivalent
H
binding surface for the glycan cluster[26].
Additional binding analysis using welldefined carbohydrate antigens provided further details on glycan specificity. These studies showed that a Man or even a Man
structure mimicking the D1 arm of native Man9GlcNAc2[28] pre-
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GlcNAc[27]
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sented the highest binding affinities with this bnAb [29–31], emphasizing the