Lustig Gila, Ganga Yashica, Rodel Hylton E, Tegally Houriiyah, Khairallah Afrah, Jackson Laurelle, Cele Sandile, Khan Khadija, Jule Zesuliwe, Reedoy Kajal, Karim Farina, Bernstein Mallory, Ndung'u Thumbi, Moosa Mahomed-Yunus S, Archary Derseree, de Oliveira Tulio, Lessells Richard, Neher Richard A, Abdool Karim Salim S, Sigal Alex
Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa.
Africa Health Research Institute, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa.
Virus Evol. 2023 Dec 28;10(1):vead075. doi: 10.1093/ve/vead075. eCollection 2024.
One mechanism of variant formation may be evolution during long-term infection in immunosuppressed people. To understand the viral phenotypes evolved during such infection, we tested SARS-CoV-2 viruses evolved from an ancestral B.1 lineage infection lasting over 190 days post-diagnosis in an advanced HIV disease immunosuppressed individual. Sequence and phylogenetic analysis showed two evolving sub-lineages, with the second sub-lineage replacing the first sub-lineage in a seeming evolutionary sweep. Each sub-lineage independently evolved escape from neutralizing antibodies. The most evolved virus for the first sub-lineage (isolated day 34) and the second sub-lineage (isolated day 190) showed similar escape from ancestral SARS-CoV-2 and Delta-variant infection elicited neutralizing immunity despite having no spike mutations in common relative to the B.1 lineage. The day 190 isolate also evolved higher cell-cell fusion and faster viral replication and caused more cell death relative to virus isolated soon after diagnosis, though cell death was similar to day 34 first sub-lineage virus. These data show that SARS-CoV-2 strains in prolonged infection in a single individual can follow independent evolutionary trajectories which lead to neutralization escape and other changes in viral properties.
变异形成的一种机制可能是在免疫抑制人群的长期感染过程中发生进化。为了解在这种感染过程中进化出的病毒表型,我们对一名晚期艾滋病免疫抑制个体中,由诊断后持续超过190天的祖传B.1谱系感染进化而来的新型冠状病毒进行了测试。序列和系统发育分析显示有两个进化亚谱系,第二个亚谱系在一次看似进化替代中取代了第一个亚谱系。每个亚谱系独立进化出对中和抗体的逃逸能力。第一个亚谱系(第34天分离株)和第二个亚谱系(第190天分离株)中进化程度最高的病毒,尽管相对于B.1谱系没有共同的刺突突变,但对祖传新型冠状病毒和德尔塔变异株感染引发的中和免疫表现出相似的逃逸能力。与诊断后不久分离的病毒相比,第190天的分离株还进化出更高的细胞间融合能力和更快的病毒复制速度,并导致更多细胞死亡,不过细胞死亡情况与第34天第一个亚谱系病毒相似。这些数据表明,在单个个体的长期感染中,新型冠状病毒毒株可遵循独立的进化轨迹,从而导致中和逃逸及病毒特性的其他变化。