SARS-CoV-2 spike conformation determines plasma neutralizing activity elicited by a wide panel of human vaccines.
SARS-CoV-2 spike conformation determines plasma neutralizing activity elicited by a wide panel of human vaccines.
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DOI:
10.1126/sciimmunol.adf1421
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2022-12-23
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24.8
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Numerous safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines have been developed worldwide that utilize various delivery technologies and engineering strategies. We show here that vaccines containing prefusion-stabilizing S mutations elicit antibody responses in humans with enhanced recognition of S and the S1 subunit relative to postfusion S, as compared to vaccines lacking these mutations or natural infection. Prefusion S and S1 antibody binding titers positively and equivalently correlated with neutralizing activity and depletion of S1-directed antibodies completely abrogated plasma neutralizing activity. We show that neutralizing activity is almost entirely directed to the S1 subunit and that variant cross-neutralization is mediated solely by RBD-specific antibodies. Our data provide a quantitative framework for guiding future S engineering efforts to develop vaccines with higher resilience to the emergence of variants than current technologies. SARS-CoV-2 S1 accounts for all vaccine-elicited plasma neutralization and cross-neutralization is mediated by RBD-specific antibodies.