Booster vaccination with Ad26.COV2.S or an Omicron-adapted vaccine in pre-immune hamsters protects against Omicron BA.2. 2023

Maarten Swart, and Joan van der Lubbe, and Sonja Schmit-Tillemans, and Ella van Huizen, and Johan Verspuij, and Ana Izquierdo Gil, and Ying Choi, and Chenandly Daal, and Aditya Perkasa, and Adriaan de Wilde, and Erwin Claassen, and Rineke de Jong, and Katrin E Wiese, and Lisette Cornelissen, and Marieke van Es, and Marjolein van Heerden, and Eleni Kourkouta, and Issam Tahiri, and Michel Mulders, and Jessica Vreugdenhil, and Karin Feddes-de Boer, and Leacky Muchene, and Jeroen Tolboom, and Liesbeth Dekking, and Jarek Juraszek, and Jort Vellinga, and Jerome Custers, and Rinke Bos, and Hanneke Schuitemaker, and Frank Wegmann, and Ramon Roozendaal, and Harmjan Kuipers, and Roland Zahn
Janssen Vaccines & Prevention, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Since the original outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, several rapidly spreading SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) have emerged. Here, we show that a single dose of Ad26.COV2.S (based on the Wuhan-Hu-1 spike variant) protects against the Gamma and Delta variants in naive hamsters, supporting the observed maintained vaccine efficacy in humans against these VOC. Adapted spike-based booster vaccines targeting Omicron variants have now been authorized in the absence of human efficacy data. We evaluated the immunogenicity and efficacy of Ad26.COV2.S.529 (encoding a stabilized Omicron BA.1 spike) in naive mice and in hamsters with pre-existing immunity to the Wuhan-Hu-1 spike. In naive mice, Ad26.COV2.S.529 elicited higher neutralizing antibody titers against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2, compared with Ad26.COV2.S. However, neutralizing titers against the SARS-CoV-2 B.1 (D614G) and Delta variants were lower after primary vaccination with Ad26.COV2.S.529 compared with Ad26.COV2.S. In contrast, we found comparable Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 neutralizing titers in hamsters with pre-existing Wuhan-Hu-1 spike immunity after vaccination with Ad26.COV2.S, Ad26.COV2.S.529 or a combination of the two vaccines. Moreover, all three vaccine modalities induced equivalent protection against Omicron BA.2 challenge in these animals. Overall, our data suggest that an Omicron BA.1-based booster in rodents does not improve immunogenicity and efficacy against Omicron BA.2 over an Ad26.COV2.S booster in a setting of pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2.

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