Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Primary exposure to SARS-CoV-2 variants elicits convergent epitope specificities, immunoglobulin V gene usage and public B cell clones

  • Noemia S. Lima,
  • Maryam Musayev,
  • Timothy S. Johnston,
  • Danielle A. Wagner,
  • Amy R. Henry,
  • Lingshu Wang,
  • Eun Sung Yang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Kevina Birungi,
  • Walker P. Black,
  • Sijy O’Dell,
  • Stephen D. Schmidt,
  • Damee Moon,
  • Cynthia G. Lorang,
  • Bingchun Zhao,
  • Man Chen,
  • Kristin L. Boswell,
  • Jesmine Roberts-Torres,
  • Rachel L. Davis,
  • Lowrey Peyton,
  • Sandeep R. Narpala,
  • Sarah O’Connell,
  • Leonid Serebryannyy,
  • Jennifer Wang,
  • Alexander Schrager,
  • Chloe Adrienna Talana,
  • Geoffrey Shimberg,
  • Kwanyee Leung,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Rawan Khashab,
  • Asaf Biber,
  • Tal Zilberman,
  • Joshua Rhein,
  • Sara Vetter,
  • Afeefa Ahmed,
  • Laura Novik,
  • Alicia Widge,
  • Ingelise Gordon,
  • Mercy Guech,
  • I-Ting Teng,
  • Emily Phung,
  • Tracy J. Ruckwardt,
  • Amarendra Pegu,
  • John Misasi,
  • Nicole A. Doria-Rose,
  • Martin Gaudinski,
  • Richard A. Koup,
  • Peter D. Kwong,
  • Adrian B. McDermott,
  • Sharon Amit,
  • Timothy W. Schacker,
  • Itzchak Levy,
  • John R. Mascola,
  • Nancy J. Sullivan,
  • Chaim A. Schramm,
  • Daniel C. Douek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35456-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Vaccines against the WA1 SARS-CoV2 strain confer protection against other variants. However, the mechanisms underlying cross-protection are not fully understood. Here, the authors develop a method for rapid analysis of single B cells from patient samples and show that infection with a variant elicits convergent, public B cell responses to other variants.