SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the absence of selective immune pressures, results in antibody resistance, interferon suppression and phenotypic differences by lineage

Abstract The persistence of COVID-19 is partly due to viral evolution reducing vaccine and treatment efficacy. Serial infections of Wuhan-like SARS-CoV-2 in Balb/c mice yielded mouse-adapted strains with greater infectivity and mortality. We investigated if passaging unmodified B.1.351 (Beta) and B.1.617.2 (Delta) 20 times in K18-ACE2 mice, expressing human ACE2 receptor, in a BSL-3 laboratory without selective pressures, would drive human health-relevant evolution and if evolution was lineage-dependent. Late-passage virus caused more severe disease, at organism and lung tissue scales, with late-passage Delta demonstrating antibody resistance and interferon suppression. This resistance co-occurred with ade novospike S371F mutation, linked with both traits. S371F, an Omicron-characteristic mutation, was co-inherited at times with spike E1182G per Nanopore sequencing, existing in different quasi-species at others. Both are linked to mammalian GOLGA7 and ZDHHC5 interactions, which mediate viral-cell entry and antiviral response. This study demonstrates SARS-CoV-2’s tendency to evolve with phenotypic consequences, its evolution varying by lineage, and suggests non-dominant quasi-species contribute..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 04. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Willett, Julian Daniel Sunday [VerfasserIn]
Gravel, Annie [VerfasserIn]
Dubuc, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Gudimard, Leslie [VerfasserIn]
dos Santos Pereira Andrade, Ana Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Lacasse, Émile [VerfasserIn]
Fortin, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ju-Ling [VerfasserIn]
Cervantes, Jose Avila [VerfasserIn]
Galvez, Jose Hector [VerfasserIn]
Djambazian, Haig Hugo Vrej [VerfasserIn]
Zwaig, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Roy, Anne-Marie [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Sally [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shu-Huang [VerfasserIn]
Ragoussis, Jiannis [VerfasserIn]
Flamand, Louis [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.01.16.523994

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XBI038448750