Class I HLA Allele Predicted Restricted Antigenic Coverages for Spike and Nucleocapsid Proteins Are Associated With Deaths Related to COVID-19

Copyright © 2020 Pretti, Galvani, Vieira, Bonomo, Bonamino and Boroni..

The world is dealing with one of the worst pandemics ever. SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological agent of COVID-19 that has already spread to more than 200 countries. However, infectivity, severity, and mortality rates do not affect all countries equally. Here we consider 140 HLA alleles and extensively investigate the landscape of 3,723 potential HLA-I A and B restricted SARS-CoV-2-derived antigens and how 37 countries in the world are predicted to respond to those peptides considering their HLA-I distribution frequencies. The clustering of HLA-A and HLA-B allele frequencies partially separates most countries with the lowest number of deaths per million inhabitants from the other countries. We further correlated the patterns of in silico predicted population coverage and epidemiological data. The number of deaths per million inhabitants correlates to the predicted antigen coverage of S and N derived peptides and its module is influenced if a given set of frequent or rare HLA alleles are analyzed in a given population. Moreover, we highlighted a potential risk group carrying HLAs associated with an elevated number of deaths per million inhabitants. In addition, we identified three potential antigens bearing at least one amino acid of the four-length insertion that differentiates SARS-CoV-2 from previous coronavirus strains. We believe these data can contribute to the search for peptides with the potential to be used in vaccine strategies considering the role of herd immunity to hamper the spread of the disease. Importantly, to the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to use a populational approach in association with COVID-19 outcome.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 11(2020) vom: 01., Seite 565730

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pretti, Marco Antônio M [VerfasserIn]
Galvani, Rômulo G [VerfasserIn]
Vieira, Gustavo Fioravanti [VerfasserIn]
Bonomo, Adriana [VerfasserIn]
Bonamino, Martín H [VerfasserIn]
Boroni, Mariana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigens, Viral
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins
HLA-A Antigens
HLA-B Antigens
Herd immunity
Journal Article
Ligandome
Nucleocapsid phosphoprotein, SARS-CoV-2
Phosphoproteins
Population coverage analysis
SARS-CoV-2
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Spike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 12.01.2021

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2020.565730

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319552535