长期持续性感染免疫功能低下患者的 SARS-CoV-2 变异株具有改变的合胞体形成、温度依赖性复制和血清中和抗体逃逸。

SARS-CoV-2 Variants from Long-Term, Persistently Infected Immunocompromised Patients Have Altered Syncytia Formation, Temperature-Dependent Replication, and Serum Neutralizing Antibody Escape.

机构信息

W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

出版信息

Viruses. 2024 Sep 9;16(9):1436. doi: 10.3390/v16091436.

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 infection of immunocompromised individuals often leads to prolonged detection of viral RNA and infectious virus in nasal specimens, presumably due to the lack of induction of an appropriate adaptive immune response. Mutations identified in virus sequences obtained from persistently infected patients bear signatures of immune evasion and have some overlap with sequences present in variants of concern. We characterized virus isolates obtained greater than 100 days after the initial COVID-19 diagnosis from two COVID-19 patients undergoing immunosuppressive cancer therapy, wand compared them to an isolate from the start of the infection. Isolates from an individual who never mounted an antibody response specific to SARS-CoV-2 despite the administration of convalescent plasma showed slight reductions in plaque size and some showed temperature-dependent replication attenuation on human nasal epithelial cell culture compared to the virus that initiated infection. An isolate from another patient-who did mount a SARS-CoV-2 IgM response-showed temperature-dependent changes in plaque size as well as increased syncytia formation and escape from serum-neutralizing antibodies. Our results indicate that not all virus isolates from immunocompromised COVID-19 patients display clear signs of phenotypic change, but increased attention should be paid to monitoring virus evolution in this patient population.

摘要

免疫功能低下个体的 SARS-CoV-2 感染常导致鼻拭子中病毒 RNA 和传染性病毒的长时间检测,这可能是由于缺乏适当的适应性免疫反应诱导。从持续感染患者中获得的病毒序列中鉴定的突变具有免疫逃避的特征,并且与关注变体中的序列有些重叠。我们从正在接受免疫抑制癌症治疗的 2 名 COVID-19 患者中,在初次 COVID-19 诊断后 100 多天获得了病毒分离物,并将其与感染开始时的分离物进行了比较。尽管给予了恢复期血浆,但个体的分离物始终未针对 SARS-CoV-2 产生抗体反应,与引发感染的病毒相比,其在人鼻腔上皮细胞培养物中的噬菌斑大小略有减小,并且有些显示出温度依赖性复制衰减。另一位患者的分离物-确实产生了 SARS-CoV-2 IgM 反应-显示出噬菌斑大小的温度依赖性变化,以及合胞体形成增加和逃避血清中和抗体。我们的结果表明,并非所有来自免疫功能低下 COVID-19 患者的病毒分离物都显示出明显的表型变化迹象,但应更加注意监测该患者人群中病毒的进化。

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