Role of mTOR inhibitor in the cellular and humoral immune response to a booster dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients

Copyright © 2023 Pérez-Flores, Juarez, Aiffil Meneses, Lopez-Gomez, Romero, Rodriguez-Cubillo, Moreno de la Higuera, Peix-Jiménez, Gonzalez-Garcia, Baos-Muñoz, Vilela, Gómez Del Moral, Martínez-Naves and Sanchez-Fructuoso..

Background: Immunocompromised patients have an increased risk of developing severe COVID disease, as well as a tendency to suboptimal responses to vaccines. The objective of this study was to evaluate the specific cellular and humoral adaptive immune responses of a cohort of kidney transplant recipients (KTR) after 3 doses of mRNA-1273 vaccine and to determinate the main factors involved.

Methods: Prospective observational study in 221 KTR (149 non infected), 55 healthy volunteers (HV) and 23 dialysis patients (DP). We evaluated anti-spike (by quantitative chemiluminescence immunoassay) and anti-nucleocapsid IgG (ELISA), percentage of TCD4+ and TCD8+ lymphocytes producing IFNγ against S-protein by intracellular flow cytometry after Spike-specific 15-mer peptide stimulation and serum neutralizing activity (competitive ELISA) at baseline and after vaccination.

Results: Among COVID-19 naïve KTR, 54.2% developed cellular and humoral response after the third dose (vs 100% in DP and 91.7% in HV), 18% only showed cell-mediated response, 22.2% exclusively antibody response and 5.6% none. A correlation of neutralizing activity with both the IgG titer (r=0.485, p<0.001) and the percentage of S-protein-specific IFNγ-producing CD8-T cells (r=0.198, p=0.049) was observed. Factors related to the humoral response in naïve KTR were: lymphocytes count pre-vaccination >1000/mm3 [4.68 (1.72-12.73, p=0.003], eGFR>30 mL/min [7.34(2.72-19.84), p<0.001], mTOR inhibitors [6.40 (1.37-29.86), p=0.018]. Infected KTR developed a stronger serologic response than naïve patients (96.8 vs 75.2%, p<0.001).

Conclusions: KTR presented poor cellular and humoral immune responses following vaccination with mRNA-1273. The immunosuppression degree and kidney function of these patients play an important role, but the only modifiable factor with a high impact on humoral immunogenicity after a booster dose was an immunosuppressive therapy including a mTOR inhibitor. Clinical trials are required to confirm these results.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 14(2023) vom: 13., Seite 1111569

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pérez-Flores, Isabel [VerfasserIn]
Juarez, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Aiffil Meneses, Arianne S [VerfasserIn]
Lopez-Gomez, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Romero, Natividad Calvo [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Cubillo, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]
Moreno de la Higuera, María Angeles [VerfasserIn]
Peix-Jiménez, Belen [VerfasserIn]
Gonzalez-Garcia, Raquel [VerfasserIn]
Baos-Muñoz, Elvira [VerfasserIn]
Vilela, Ana Arribi [VerfasserIn]
Gómez Del Moral, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-Naves, Eduardo [VerfasserIn]
Sanchez-Fructuoso, Ana Isabel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2019-nCoV Vaccine mRNA-1273
COVID-19
EC 2.7.1.1
EC 2.7.11.1
EPK39PL4R4
Immune response
Immunoglobulin G
Journal Article
Kidney transplantation
MTOR
MTOR Inhibitors
MTOR protein, human
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases

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Date Completed 27.02.2023

Date Revised 27.03.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2023.1111569

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353237469