| Autor: |
Hitoshi, Azuma, Yohei, Kawano, Kiyomi, Shitaoka, Takahiro, Kawahara, Ayano, Ito, Akifumi, Higashiura, Yasuo, Kitajima, Shun, Ohki, Tomoharu, Yasuda |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Immunology. 35:197-207 |
| ISSN: |
1460-2377 |
| Popis: |
The immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants caused by multiple amino acid replacements in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein wanes the effectiveness of antibodies elicited by current SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccination. The vaccines that target Omicron strains have been recently developed, however, there has been a concern yet to be addressed regarding the negative aspect of the immune response known as original antigenic sin. Here, we demonstrate that the breadth of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants is barely elicited by immunizing monovalent viral antigens via vaccination or natural infection in mice and human subjects. However, vaccination of Omicron BA.1 RBD to pre-immunized mice with the original RBD conferred sustained neutralizing activity to BA.1 and BA.2 not only original pseudoviruses. The acquisition of neutralizing antibody breadth was further confirmed in vaccinated-then-Omicron convalescent human sera in which neutralizing activity against BA.1 and BA.2 pseudoviruses was highly induced. Thus, our data suggest that Omicron-specific vaccines or the infection with Omicron viruses can boost potent neutralizing antibodies to the Omicron variants even in the host pre-vaccinated with the original antigen. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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