Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Variants by rVSV-ΔG-Spike-Elicited Human Sera. 2022

Yfat Yahalom-Ronen, and Noam Erez, and Morly Fisher, and Hadas Tamir, and Boaz Politi, and Hagit Achdout, and Sharon Melamed, and Itai Glinert, and Shay Weiss, and Inbar Cohen-Gihon, and Ofir Israeli, and Marina Izak, and Michal Mandelboim, and Yoseph Caraco, and Noa Madar-Balakirski, and Adva Mechaly, and Eilat Shinar, and Ran Zichel, and Daniel Cohen, and Adi Beth-Din, and Anat Zvi, and Hadar Marcus, and Tomer Israely, and Nir Paran
Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona 7410001, Israel.

The emergence of rapidly spreading variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) poses a major challenge to the ability of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies to provide immunity. These variants contain mutations of specific amino acids that might impede vaccine efficacy. BriLife® (rVSV-ΔG-spike) is a newly developed SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate currently in phase II clinical trials. It is based on a replication-competent vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) platform. The rVSV-ΔG-spike contains several spontaneously acquired spike mutations that correspond to SARS-CoV-2 variants' mutations. We show that human sera from BriLife® vaccinees preserve comparable neutralization titers towards alpha, gamma, and delta variants and show less than a three-fold reduction in the neutralization capacity of beta and omicron compared to the original virus. Taken together, we show that human sera from BriLife® vaccinees overall maintain a neutralizing antibody response against all tested variants. We suggest that BriLife®-acquired mutations may prove advantageous against future SARS-CoV-2 VOCs.

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