Heterologous boost with mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 Delta/Omicron variants following an inactivated whole-virus vaccine

ABSTRACT The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has mutated quickly and caused significant global damage. This study characterizes two mRNA vaccines ZSVG-02 (Delta) and ZSVG-02-O (Omicron BA.1), and associating heterologous prime-boost strategy following the prime of a most widely administrated inactivated whole-virus vaccine (BBIBP-CorV). The ZSVG-02-O induces neutralizing antibodies that effectively cross-react with Omicron subvariants following an order of BA.1>BA.2>BA.4/5. In naïve animals, ZSVG-02 or ZSVG-02-O induce humoral responses skewed to the vaccine’s targeting strains, but cellular immune responses cross-react to all variants of concern (VOCs) tested. Following heterologous prime-boost regimes, animals present comparable neutralizing antibody levels and superior protection across all VOCs. Single-boost only generated ancestral and omicron dual-responsive antibodies, probably by “recall” and “reshape” the prime immunity. New Omicron-specific antibody populations, however, appeared only following the second boost with ZSVG-02-O. Overall, our results support a heterologous boost with ZSVG-02-O, providing the best protection against current VOCs in inactivated virus vaccine– primed populations..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lu, Changrui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuntao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaohu [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Fujun [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Rujie [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Zhibin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Guohuan [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Hua, Xianwu [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Xinping [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Lianxiao [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Kang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zejun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xinguo [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qiu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yuwei [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Chunxia [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Huifeng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaoke [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Fangjingwei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xuewei [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Hongwei [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Ronghua [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Hang [VerfasserIn]
Jia, William [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiaoming [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.09.06.506714

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI037222317