Autor: |
Plested, Mingzhu Zhu, Shane Cloney-Clark, Sheau-line Feng, Anand Parekh, Drew Gorinson, David Silva, Paul Skonieczny, Adjele Wilson, Raj Kalkeri, Wayne Woo, Miranda R. Cai, Louis Fries, Greg Glenn, Joyce S. |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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Zdroj: |
Microorganisms; Volume 11; Issue 7; Pages: 1789 |
ISSN: |
2076-2607 |
DOI: |
10.3390/microorganisms11071789 |
Popis: |
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continue to emerge. Immunogenicity evaluation of vaccines and identification of correlates of protection for vaccine effectiveness is critical to aid the development of vaccines against emerging variants. Anti-recombinant spike (rS) protein immunoglobulin G (IgG) quantitation in the systemic circulation (serum/plasma) is shown to correlate with vaccine efficacy. Thus, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based binding assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 (ancestral and variant strains) anti-rS IgG in human serum samples was developed and validated. This assay successfully met acceptance criteria for inter/intra-assay precision, specificity, selectivity, linearity, lower/upper limits of quantitation, matrix effects, and assay robustness. The analyte in serum was stable for up to 8 freeze/thaw cycles and 2 years in −80 °C storage. Similar results were observed for the Beta, Delta, and Omicron BA.1/BA.5/XBB.1.5 variant-adapted assays. Anti-rS IgG assay results correlated significantly with neutralization and receptor binding inhibition assays. In addition, usage of international reference standards allows data extrapolation to WHO international units (BAU/mL), facilitating comparison of results with other IgG assays. This anti-rS IgG assay is a robust, high-throughput method to evaluate binding IgG responses to S protein in serum, enabling rapid development of effective vaccines against emerging COVID-19 variants. |
Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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