Comparing antibody assays as correlates of protection against COVID-19 in the COVE mRNA-1273 vaccine efficacy trial

The best assay or marker to define mRNA-1273 vaccine-induced antibodies as a correlate of protection (CoP) is unclear. In the COVE trial, participants received two doses of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine or placebo. We previously assessed IgG binding antibodies to the spike protein (spike IgG) or receptor binding domain (RBD IgG) and pseudovirus neutralizing antibody 50 or 80% inhibitory dilution titer measured on day 29 or day 57, as correlates of risk (CoRs) and CoPs against symptomatic COVID-19 over 4 months after dose. Here, we assessed a new marker, live virus 50% microneutralization titer (LV-MN50), and compared and combined markers in multivariable analyses. LV-MN50 was an inverse CoR, with a hazard ratio of 0.39 (95% confidence interval, 0.19 to 0.83) at day 29 and 0.51 (95% confidence interval, 0.25 to 1.04) at day 57 per 10-fold increase. In multivariable analyses, pseudovirus neutralization titers and anti-spike binding antibodies performed best as CoRs; combining antibody markers did not improve correlates. Pseudovirus neutralization titer was the strongest independent correlate in a multivariable model. Overall, these results supported pseudovirus neutralizing and binding antibody assays as CoRs and CoPs, with the live virus assay as a weaker correlate in this sample set. Day 29 markers performed as well as day 57 markers as CoPs, which could accelerate immunogenicity and immunobridging studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Science translational medicine - 15(2023), 692 vom: 19. Apr., Seite eade9078

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Benkeser, David [VerfasserIn]
Montefiori, David C [VerfasserIn]
McDermott, Adrian B [VerfasserIn]
Fong, Youyi [VerfasserIn]
Janes, Holly E [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Weiping [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Honghong [VerfasserIn]
Houchens, Christopher R [VerfasserIn]
Martins, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Jayashankar, Lakshmi [VerfasserIn]
Castellino, Flora [VerfasserIn]
Flach, Britta [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Bob C [VerfasserIn]
O'Connell, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
McDanal, Charlene [VerfasserIn]
Eaton, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
Sarzotti-Kelsoe, Marcella [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yiwen [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Chenchen [VerfasserIn]
Borate, Bhavesh [VerfasserIn]
van der Laan, Lars W P [VerfasserIn]
Hejazi, Nima S [VerfasserIn]
Kenny, Avi [VerfasserIn]
Carone, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Williamson, Brian D [VerfasserIn]
Garver, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Altonen, Erin [VerfasserIn]
Rudge, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Huynh, Chuong [VerfasserIn]
Miller, Jacqueline [VerfasserIn]
El Sahly, Hana M [VerfasserIn]
Baden, Lindsey R [VerfasserIn]
Frey, Sharon [VerfasserIn]
Malkin, Elissa [VerfasserIn]
Spector, Stephen A [VerfasserIn]
Andrasik, Michele P [VerfasserIn]
Kublin, James G [VerfasserIn]
Corey, Lawrence [VerfasserIn]
Neuzil, Kathleen M [VerfasserIn]
Carpp, Lindsay N [VerfasserIn]
Pajon, Rolando [VerfasserIn]
Follmann, Dean [VerfasserIn]
Donis, Ruben O [VerfasserIn]
Koup, Richard A [VerfasserIn]
Gilbert, Peter B [VerfasserIn]
Immune Assays [VerfasserIn]
Moderna Inc. [VerfasserIn]
Coronavirus Vaccine Prevention Network (CoVPN)/Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE) [VerfasserIn]
United States Government (USG)/CoVPN Biostatistics Teams [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2019-nCoV Vaccine mRNA-1273
Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
EPK39PL4R4
Immunoglobulin G
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.04.2023

Date Revised 30.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04470427

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1126/scitranslmed.ade9078

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355789698