A SUBUNIT VACCINE PLATFORM BASED ON MULTIMERIC RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS COMPRISING NUCLEOPROTEINS OF A NON-SEGMENTED NEGATIVE-STRAND RNA VIRUS AS CARRIERS OF HETEROLOGOUS POLYPEPTIDES

摘要

The present invention relates to a subunit vaccine platform based on multimeric ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) comprising nucleoproteins of a non- segmented negative-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus as carriers of heterologous polypeptides. The present invention also relates to multimeric RNPs resulting from the assembly of at least 200 fusion proteins with a cellular RNA, or to recombinant yeasts or yeast lysates expressing these multimeric RNPs. It also concerns a process for the preparation of these multimeric RNPs or recombinant yeasts or yeast lysates. In particular, the present invention relates to their use as active ingredient for the in vitro production of an immunogenic composition or in eliciting a protective prophylactic or a therapeutic immune response against said heterologous polypeptide in a host in need thereof. Recombinant yeasts or yeast lysates of the invention can also be used as expression and vector systems for delivery to a host.