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. 2022 Nov 10;32(12):1068–1085. doi: 10.1038/s41422-022-00746-3

Fig. 3. HR121 induced prolonged humoral and cellular immune responses in BALB/c mice.

Fig. 3

a Scheme of BALB/c mouse immunization with HR121/Freund’s adjuvant at two-week intervals. Three groups of mice were immunized with different doses of HR121 plus CFA/IFA, and another two groups of mice were injected with CFA/IFA and PBS as negative controls. n = 6 per group. b Endpoint titers of bAbs to HR121. In another two groups of mice injected with adjuvant and PBS, the bAbs were not detectable (data not shown). c nAbs to authentic SARS-CoV-2 in the group immunized with 10 μg of HR121 at 7 days after the third immunization. d HR1-specific cellular immunity at 90 days after the third immunization. e HR121-specific humoral immunity at 90 days after the third immunization. f Scheme of BALB/c mouse immunization with HR121/Freund’s adjuvant at three-week intervals. g Endpoint titers of bAbs to HR121 at three-week intervals (colored in purple) compared with those at two-week intervals (colored in red). In be and g, each symbol represents a mouse. The bAbs and nAbs against HR121 in the controls are expected to be negative; therefore, we selected some of them to test, and the same is applied to the other figures. In b, c and g, data are presented as geometric mean ± geometric SD, and dashed lines represent the limit of quantification. In d and e, data are presented as median ± interquartile range. In b, d, e, and g, differences between each group are determined by one-way ANOVA.