Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Heterologous SARS-CoV-2 spike protein booster elicits durable and broad antibody responses against the receptor-binding domain

  • Tomohiro Takano,
  • Takashi Sato,
  • Ryutaro Kotaki,
  • Saya Moriyama,
  • Shuetsu Fukushi,
  • Masahiro Shinoda,
  • Kiyomi Kabasawa,
  • Nagashige Shimada,
  • Mio Kousaka,
  • Yu Adachi,
  • Taishi Onodera,
  • Kazutaka Terahara,
  • Masanori Isogawa,
  • Takayuki Matsumura,
  • Masaharu Shinkai,
  • Yoshimasa Takahashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37128-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Takano et al. show that heterologous booster by SARS-CoV-2 recombinant spike protein vaccine recalls a more sustained and broader anti-spike receptor-binding domain antibody response compared to homologous booster by mRNA vaccine.