Iowa City Veterans Administration Healthcare System, 601 Highway 6, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA; The University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Impact Life Blood Services, 5500 Lakeview Parkway, Davenport, IA 52807, USA.
J Immunol Methods. 2024 Jul;530:113698. doi: 10.1016/j.jim.2024.113698. Epub 2024 May 31.
There is a critical need to understand the effectiveness of serum elicited by different SARS-CoV-2 vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants. We describe the generation of reference reagents comprised of post-vaccination sera from recipients of different primary vaccines with or without different vaccine booster regimens in order to allow standardized characterization of SARS-CoV-2 neutralization in vitro. We prepared and pooled serum obtained from donors who received a either primary vaccine series alone, or a vaccination strategy that included primary and boosted immunization using available SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines (BNT162b2, Pfizer and mRNA-1273, Moderna), replication-incompetent adenovirus type 26 vaccine (Ad26.COV2·S, Johnson and Johnson), or recombinant baculovirus-expressed spike protein in a nanoparticle vaccine plus Matrix-M adjuvant (NVX-CoV2373, Novavax). No subjects had a history of clinical SARS-CoV-2 infection, and sera were screened with confirmation that there were no nucleocapsid antibodies detected to suggest natural infection. Twice frozen sera were aliquoted, and serum antibodies were characterized for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding (estimated WHO antibody binding units/ml), spike protein competition for ACE-2 binding, and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein pseudotyped lentivirus transduction. These reagents are available for distribution to the research community (BEI Resources), and should allow the direct comparison of antibody neutralization results between different laboratories. Further, these sera are an important tool to evaluate the functional neutralization activity of vaccine-induced antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. IMPORTANCE: The explosion of COVID-19 demonstrated how novel coronaviruses can rapidly spread and evolve following introduction into human hosts. The extent of vaccine- and infection-induced protection against infection and disease severity is reduced over time due to the fall in concentration, and due to emerging variants that have altered antibody binding regions on the viral envelope spike protein. Here, we pooled sera obtained from individuals who were immunized with different SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and who did not have clinical or serologic evidence of prior infection. The sera pools were characterized for direct spike protein binding, blockade of virus-receptor binding, and neutralization of spike protein pseudotyped lentiviruses. These sera pools were aliquoted and are available to allow inter-laboratory comparison of results and to provide a tool to determine the effectiveness of prior vaccines in recognizing and neutralizing emerging variants of concern.
非常需要了解不同 SARS-CoV-2 疫苗引起的血清对 SARS-CoV-2 变异体的有效性。我们描述了制备参考试剂的过程,这些试剂由接受不同初始疫苗接种的受者的接种后血清组成,无论是否使用不同的疫苗加强方案,以便能够标准化地进行 SARS-CoV-2 体外中和作用的特征描述。我们制备并汇集了来自接受以下免疫接种策略的供体的血清:仅接受初始疫苗系列接种、使用现有 SARS-CoV-2 mRNA 疫苗(BNT162b2、辉瑞和 mRNA-1273、Moderna)进行初始和加强免疫接种、复制缺陷型腺病毒 26 疫苗(Ad26.COV2·S、强生)或重组杆状病毒表达的纳米颗粒疫苗加 Matrix-M 佐剂中的 Spike 蛋白(NVX-CoV2373、Novavax)。所有受试者均无 SARS-CoV-2 临床感染史,并且用确认未检测到核衣壳抗体的血清进行了筛查,这表明没有自然感染。将两次冷冻的血清等分,对血清抗体进行了 SARS-CoV-2 Spike 蛋白结合(估计的世界卫生组织抗体结合单位/ml)、Spike 蛋白与 ACE-2 结合竞争以及 SARS-CoV-2 Spike 蛋白假型慢病毒转导的特征描述。这些试剂可用于分发给研究界(BEI 资源),并应允许不同实验室之间直接比较抗体中和结果。此外,这些血清是评估疫苗诱导的抗体对新型 SARS-CoV-2 关注变异体的功能中和活性的重要工具。重要性:COVID-19 的爆发表明,新型冠状病毒在进入人类宿主后会迅速传播和进化。由于浓度下降以及病毒包膜 Spike 蛋白上的抗体结合区域发生改变的新型变体的出现,疫苗和感染诱导的对感染和疾病严重程度的保护作用会随着时间的推移而降低。在这里,我们汇集了来自接受不同 SARS-CoV-2 疫苗接种且无临床或血清学证据表明先前感染的个体的血清。对血清池进行了直接 Spike 蛋白结合、阻断病毒受体结合和 Spike 蛋白假型慢病毒中和作用的特征描述。这些血清池被等分,并可用于允许实验室间比较结果,并提供一种工具来确定先前疫苗在识别和中和新型关注变异体方面的有效性。
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