Human organoid systems reveal in vitro correlates of fitness for SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7

Abstract A new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has started as several SARS-CoV-2 variants are rapidly emerging globally, raising concerns for increased transmissibility. As animal models and traditional in vitro systems may fail to model key aspects of the SARS-CoV-2 replication cycle, representative in vitro systems to assess variants phenotypically are urgently needed. We found that the British variant (clade B.1.1.7), compared to an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 clade B virus, produced higher levels of infectious virus late in infection and had a higher replicative fitness in human airway, alveolar and intestinal organoid models. Our findings unveil human organoids as powerful tools to phenotype viral variants and suggest extended shedding as a correlate of fitness for SARS-CoV-2.One-Sentence Summary British SARS-CoV-2 variant (clade B.1.1.7) infects organoids for extended time and has a higher fitness in vitro..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 05. Mai Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

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Englisch

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Lamers, Mart M. [VerfasserIn]
Breugem, Tim I. [VerfasserIn]
Mykytyn, Anna Z. [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yiquan [VerfasserIn]
Groen, Nathalie [VerfasserIn]
Knoops, Kèvin [VerfasserIn]
Schipper, Debby [VerfasserIn]
van der Vaart, Jelte [VerfasserIn]
Koopman, Charlotte D. [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jingshu [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Douglas C. [VerfasserIn]
van den Doel, Petra B. [VerfasserIn]
Bestebroer, Theo [VerfasserIn]
GeurtsvanKessel, Corine H. [VerfasserIn]
Peters, Peter J. [VerfasserIn]
Muraro, Mauro J. [VerfasserIn]
Clevers, Hans [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Nicholas C. [VerfasserIn]
Haagmans, Bart L. [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2021.05.03.441080

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XBI020486804