The mutational landscape of SARS-CoV-2 variants diversifies T cell targets in an HLA-supertype-dependent manner

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The rapid, global dispersion of SARS-CoV-2 has led to the emergence of a diverse range of variants. Here, we describe how the mutational landscape of SARS-CoV-2 has shaped HLA-restricted T cell immunity at the population level during the first year of the pandemic. We analyzed a total of 330,246 high-quality SARS-CoV-2 genome assemblies, sampled across 143 countries and all major continents from December 2019 to December 2020 before mass vaccination or the rise of the Delta variant. We observed that proline residues are preferentially removed from the proteome of prevalent mutants, leading to a predicted global loss of SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in individuals expressing HLA-B alleles of the B7 supertype family; this is largely driven by a dominant C-to-U mutation type at the RNA level. These results indicate that B7-supertype-associated epitopes, including the most immunodominant ones, were more likely to escape CD8+ T cell immunosurveillance during the first year of the pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Cell systems - 13(2022), 2 vom: 16. Feb., Seite 143-157.e3

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hamelin, David J [VerfasserIn]
Fournelle, Dominique [VerfasserIn]
Grenier, Jean-Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Schockaert, Jana [VerfasserIn]
Kovalchik, Kevin A [VerfasserIn]
Kubiniok, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Mostefai, Fatima [VerfasserIn]
Duquette, Jérôme D [VerfasserIn]
Saab, Frederic [VerfasserIn]
Sirois, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Martin A [VerfasserIn]
Pattijn, Sofie [VerfasserIn]
Soudeyns, Hugo [VerfasserIn]
Decaluwe, Hélène [VerfasserIn]
Hussin, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Caron, Etienne [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Epitope
Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
HLA
Journal Article
Mutation
Peptide
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SARS-CoV-2
Supertype
T cell
Variant

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Date Completed 04.03.2022

Date Revised 04.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cels.2021.09.013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM331786958