Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Omicron-specific mRNA vaccination alone and as a heterologous booster against SARS-CoV-2

  • Zhenhao Fang,
  • Lei Peng,
  • Renata Filler,
  • Kazushi Suzuki,
  • Andrew McNamara,
  • Qianqian Lin,
  • Paul A. Renauer,
  • Luojia Yang,
  • Bridget Menasche,
  • Angie Sanchez,
  • Ping Ren,
  • Qiancheng Xiong,
  • Madison Strine,
  • Paul Clark,
  • Chenxiang Lin,
  • Albert I. Ko,
  • Nathan D. Grubaugh,
  • Craig B. Wilen,
  • Sidi Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30878-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Here the authors show that Omicron neutralizing antibody titers decline over time in mice immunized with a wild-type (WT) lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-mRNA vaccine and are robustly increased by WT or Omicron LNP-mRNA and that Omicron boosters elicit higher BA.1-neutralizing titer than WT boosters.