Santos da Silva Eveline, Servais Jean-Yves, Kohnen Michel, Arendt Victor, Gilson Georges, Staub Therese, Seguin-Devaux Carole, Perez-Bercoff Danielle
HIV Clinical and Translational Research Unit, Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, 29 Rue Henri Koch, L-4354 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, 4 Rue Ernest Barblé, L-1210 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2023 Feb 19;45(2):1741-1761. doi: 10.3390/cimb45020112.
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2, several Omicron sublineages have emerged, supplanting their predecessors. Here we compared the neutralization of Omicron sublineages BA.1, BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 by human sera collected from individuals who were infected with the ancestral B.1 (D614G) strain, who were vaccinated (3 doses) or with breakthrough infection with pre-Omicron strains (Gamma or Delta). All Omicron sublineages exhibited extensive escape from all sera when compared to the ancestral B.1 strain and to Delta, albeit to different levels depending on the origin of the sera. Convalescent sera were unable to neutralize BA.1, and partly neutralized BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5. Vaccinee sera partly neutralized BA.2, but BA.1, BA.4 and BA.5 evaded neutralizing antibodies (NAb). Some breakthrough infections (BTI) sera were non-neutralizing. Neutralizing BTI sera had similar neutralizing ability against all Omicron sublineages. Despite similar levels of anti-Spike and anti-Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) antibodies in all groups, BTI sera had the highest cross-neutralizing ability against all Omicron sublineages and convalescent sera were the least neutralizing. Antibody avidity inferred from the NT50:antibody titer ratio was highest in sera from BTI patients, underscoring qualitative differences in antibodies elicited by infection or vaccination. Together, these findings highlight the importance of vaccination to trigger highly cross-reactive antibodies that neutralize phylogenetically and antigenically distant strains, and suggest that immune imprinting by first generation vaccines may restrict, but not abolish, cross-neutralization.
自严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)奥密克戎BA.1和BA.2出现以来,又出现了几个奥密克戎亚谱系,取代了它们的前身。在此,我们比较了从感染原始B.1(D614G)毒株的个体、接种疫苗(3剂)或出现奥密克戎毒株之前的毒株(伽马或德尔塔)突破性感染的个体中采集的人类血清对奥密克戎亚谱系BA.1、BA.2、BA.4和BA.5的中和作用。与原始B.1毒株和德尔塔毒株相比,所有奥密克戎亚谱系对所有血清均表现出广泛的逃逸,尽管逃逸程度因血清来源而异。康复血清无法中和BA.1,只能部分中和BA.2、BA.4和BA.5。接种疫苗者的血清只能部分中和BA.2,但BA.1、BA.4和BA.5能够逃避中和抗体(NAb)。一些突破性感染(BTI)血清无中和作用。具有中和作用的BTI血清对所有奥密克戎亚谱系具有相似的中和能力。尽管所有组的抗刺突蛋白和抗受体结合域(RBD)抗体水平相似,但BTI血清对所有奥密克戎亚谱系的交叉中和能力最高,而康复血清的中和能力最低。从NT50:抗体滴度比值推断的抗体亲和力在BTI患者的血清中最高,这突出了感染或疫苗接种所引发抗体的质量差异。总之,这些发现突出了疫苗接种在触发高度交叉反应性抗体以中和系统发育和抗原性上不同的毒株方面的重要性,并表明第一代疫苗产生的免疫印记可能会限制但不会消除交叉中和作用。