Shafaati Maryam, Bagherzadeh Kowsar, Lotfinia Majid, Karimi Hesam, Teimoori Ali, Razazian Mehdi, Meidaninikjeh Sepideh, Hosseini Hamed, Jamshidi Hamid Reza, Jalili Hasan, Abdoli Asghar
Department of Microbiology, Faculty Science, Jahrom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jahrom, Iran.
Eye Research Center, The Five Senses Health Institute, Rassoul Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Heliyon. 2023 Mar;9(3):e14108. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14108. Epub 2023 Feb 26.
Over time, the antigenic evolution of emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 has demanded the development of potential protective vaccines. Administration of additional doses of current vaccines based on the WT spike protein may boost immunity, but their effectiveness has dwindled for patients with more recent variants. Here, we studied the neutralization activity of post-WT strain-based vaccination and a structural simulation based on the interactions of the RBD-hACE2 as the key to initiating infection among the VOCs of SARS-CoV-2. Our data display shows that WT sera showed a markedly greater reduction in , suggesting that the Wuhan-based vaccines may be more susceptible to breakthrough and new VOCs. According to the MD simulation, mutations of result in a significant change in the variant charge distribution throughout the binding interface that consequently alters the critical interface electrostatic potential in comparison to other variants. This observation provides new insights into immunization policy and next-generation vaccine development.
随着时间的推移,新型严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)变体的抗原进化促使人们研发潜在的保护性疫苗。基于野生型刺突蛋白的现有疫苗接种额外剂量可能会增强免疫力,但其对感染最新变体的患者的有效性已经下降。在此,我们研究了基于野生型毒株的疫苗接种后的中和活性,以及基于受体结合域(RBD)与人血管紧张素转换酶2(hACE2)相互作用的结构模拟,这是引发SARS-CoV-2变异株感染的关键。我们的数据显示,野生型血清显示出显著更大的降低,这表明基于武汉毒株的疫苗可能更容易出现突破感染和新的变异株。根据分子动力学(MD)模拟,[具体突变内容缺失]的突变导致整个结合界面的变体电荷分布发生显著变化,因此与其他变体相比,关键界面的静电势发生改变。这一观察结果为免疫策略和下一代疫苗开发提供了新的见解。