Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.
School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Nat Commun. 2022 Aug 10;13(1):4686. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32396-9.
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages, first detected in South Africa, have changes relative to Omicron BA.1 including substitutions in the spike receptor binding domain. Here we isolated live BA.4 and BA.5 viruses and measured BA.4/BA.5 neutralization elicited by BA.1 infection either in the absence or presence of previous vaccination as well as from vaccination without BA.1 infection. In BA.1-infected unvaccinated individuals, neutralization relative to BA.1 declines 7.6-fold for BA.4 and 7.5-fold for BA.5. In vaccinated individuals with subsequent BA.1 infection, neutralization relative to BA.1 decreases 3.2-fold for BA.4 and 2.6-fold for BA.5. The fold-drop versus ancestral virus neutralization in this group is 4.0-fold for BA.1, 12.9-fold for BA.4, and 10.3-fold for BA.5. In contrast, BA.4/BA.5 escape is similar to BA.1 in the absence of BA.1 elicited immunity: fold-drop relative to ancestral virus neutralization is 19.8-fold for BA.1, 19.6-fold for BA.4, and 20.9-fold for BA.5. These results show considerable escape of BA.4/BA.5 from BA.1 elicited immunity which is moderated with vaccination and may indicate that BA.4/BA.5 may have the strongest selective advantage in evading neutralization relative to BA.1 in unvaccinated, BA.1 infected individuals.
SARS-CoV-2 奥密克戎(B.1.1.529)BA.4 和 BA.5 亚谱系最初在南非被发现,与奥密克戎 BA.1 相比有变化,包括刺突受体结合域的取代。在这里,我们分离了活的 BA.4 和 BA.5 病毒,并测量了 BA.1 感染后未接种疫苗或接种疫苗但未感染 BA.1 时,BA.4/BA.5 中和反应。在未接种疫苗的 BA.1 感染个体中,相对于 BA.1,BA.4 的中和作用下降了 7.6 倍,BA.5 下降了 7.5 倍。在随后感染 BA.1 的接种个体中,相对于 BA.1,BA.4 的中和作用下降了 3.2 倍,BA.5 下降了 2.6 倍。与原始病毒相比,该组中 BA.1 的中和作用下降了 4.0 倍,BA.4 下降了 12.9 倍,BA.5 下降了 10.3 倍。相比之下,在没有 BA.1 诱导免疫的情况下,BA.4/BA.5 逃逸与 BA.1 相似:相对于原始病毒的中和作用下降了 19.8 倍,BA.4 下降了 19.6 倍,BA.5 下降了 20.9 倍。这些结果表明,BA.4/BA.5 从 BA.1 诱导的免疫中逃逸的程度很大,而接种疫苗可以减轻这种逃逸,这可能表明,与接种疫苗、BA.1 感染的个体相比,BA.4/BA.5 在逃避中和方面可能具有最强的选择优势。
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