Kinetics of antibody responses dictate COVID-19 outcome

Summary Recent studies have provided insights into innate and adaptive immune dynamics in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Yet, the exact feature of antibody responses that governs COVID-19 disease outcomes remain unclear. Here, we analysed humoral immune responses in 209 asymptomatic, mild, moderate and severe COVID-19 patients over time to probe the nature of antibody responses in disease severity and mortality. We observed a correlation between anti-Spike (S) IgG levels, length of hospitalization and clinical parameters associated with worse clinical progression. While high anti-S IgG levels correlated with worse disease severity, such correlation was time-dependent. Deceased patients did not have higher overall humoral response than live discharged patients. However, they mounted a robust, yet delayed response, measured by anti-S, anti-RBD IgG, and neutralizing antibody (NAb) levels, compared to survivors. Delayed seroconversion kinetics correlated with impaired viral control in deceased patients. Finally, while sera from 89% of patients displayed some neutralization capacity during their disease course, NAb generation prior to 14 days of disease onset emerged as a key factor for recovery. These data indicate that COVID-19 mortality does not correlate with the cross-sectional antiviral antibody levelsper se, but rather with the delayed kinetics of NAb production..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 08. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lucas, Carolina [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Jon [VerfasserIn]
Sundaram, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Feimei [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Silva, Julio [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Tianyang [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Ji Eun [VerfasserIn]
Tokuyama, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Peiwen [VerfasserIn]
Venkataraman, Arvind [VerfasserIn]
Park, Annsea [VerfasserIn]
Israelow, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Wyllie, Anne L. [VerfasserIn]
Vogels, Chantal B. F. [VerfasserIn]
Muenker, M. Catherine [VerfasserIn]
Casanovas-Massana, Arnau [VerfasserIn]
Schulz, Wade L. [VerfasserIn]
Zell, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Campbell, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Fournier, John B. [VerfasserIn]
Grubaugh, Nathan D. [VerfasserIn]
Farhadian, Shelli [VerfasserIn]
Wisnewski, Adam V. [VerfasserIn]
Cruz, Charles Dela [VerfasserIn]
Omer, Saad [VerfasserIn]
Ko, Albert I. [VerfasserIn]
Ring, Aaron [VerfasserIn]
Iwasaki, Akiko [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.12.18.20248331

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XBI019586825