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JCI INSIGHT
卷 7, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.157699
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- Russian Science Foundation [20-15-00395]
- Russian Science Foundation [20-15-00395] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
This study evaluated T cell immune responses in vaccinated, convalescent, unexposed, and SARS-CoV-2-exposed individuals, identified multiple immunogenic epitopes, and discovered the presence of cross-reactive epitopes. The study also developed an in vitro diagnostic test using these epitopes, which showed high accuracy. For some asymptomatic seronegative individuals, a complete absence of T cell response to these immunogenic epitopes suggests a potential protective role of cross-reactive immune response.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic calls for more effective diagnostic tools. T cell response assessment serves as an independent indicator of prior COVID-19 exposure while also contributing to a more comprehensive characterization of SARS-CoV-2 immunity. In this study, we systematically assessed the immunogenicity of 118 epitopes with immune cells collected from multiple cohorts of vaccinated, convalescent, healthy unexposed, and SARS-CoV-2???exposed donors. We identified 75 immunogenic epitopes, 24 of which were immunodominant. We further confirmed HLA restriction for 49 epitopes and described association with more than 1 HLA allele for 14 of these. Exclusion of 2 cross-reactive epitopes that generated a response in prepandemic samples left us with a 73-epitope set that offered excellent diagnostic specificity without losing sensitivity compared with full-length antigens, and this evoked a robust cross-reactive response. We subsequently incorporated this set of epitopes into an in vitro diagnostic Corona-T-test, which achieved a diagnostic accuracy of 95% in a clinical trial. In a cohort of asymptomatic seronegative individuals with a history of prolonged SARS-CoV-2 exposure, we observed a complete absence of T cell response to our epitope panel. In combination with strong reactivity to full-length antigens, this suggests that a cross-reactive response might protect these individuals.
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