Cross-neutralization and viral fitness of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages

ABSTRACTThe rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages mandates a better understanding of viral replication and cross-neutralization among these sublineages. Here we used K18-hACE2 mice and primary human airway cultures to examine the viral fitness and antigenic relationship among Omicron sublineages. In both K18-hACE2 mice and human airway cultures, Omicron sublineages exhibited a replication order of BA.5 ≥ BA.2 ≥ BA.2.12.1 < BA.1; no difference in body weight loss was observed among different sublineage-infected mice. The BA.1-, BA.2-, BA.2.12.1-, and BA.5-infected mice developed distinguishable cross-neutralizations against Omicron sublineages, but exhibited little neutralization against the index virus (i.e. USA-WA1/2020) or the Delta variant. Surprisingly, the BA.5-infected mice developed higher neutralization activity against heterologous BA.2 and BA.2.12.1 than that against homologous BA.5; serum neutralizing titres did not always correlate with viral replication levels in infected animals. Our results revealed a distinct antigenic cartography of Omicron sublineages and support the bivalent vaccine approach..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Emerging Microbes and Infections - 12(2023), 1

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hongjie Xia [VerfasserIn]
Jason Yeung [VerfasserIn]
Birte Kalveram [VerfasserIn]
Cody J. Bills [VerfasserIn]
John Yun-Chung Chen [VerfasserIn]
Chaitanya Kurhade [VerfasserIn]
Jing Zou [VerfasserIn]
Steven G. Widen [VerfasserIn]
Brian R. Mann [VerfasserIn]
Rebecca Kondor [VerfasserIn]
C. Todd Davis [VerfasserIn]
Bin Zhou [VerfasserIn]
David E. Wentworth [VerfasserIn]
Xuping Xie [VerfasserIn]
Pei-Yong Shi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigenicity
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Microbiology
Neutralization
SARS-CoV-2
Variants
Viral fitness

doi:

10.1080/22221751.2022.2161422

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ000268259