Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 spike 69/70 deletion, E484K, and N501Y variants by BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited sera

Xuping Xie, Y. Liu, Jianying Liu, Xianwen Zhang, Jing Zou, C. Fontes-Garfias, Hongjie Xia, K. Swanson, M. Cutler, D. Cooper, V. Menachery, S. Weaver, P. Dormitzer, P. Shi

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2021

We engineered three SARS-CoV-2 viruses containing key spike mutations from the newly emerged United Kingdom (UK) and South African (SA) variants: N501Y from UK and SA; 69/70-deletion+N501Y+D614G from UK; and E484K+N501Y+D614G from SA. Neutralization geometric mean titers (GMTs) of twenty BTN162b2 vaccine-elicited human sera against the three mutant viruses were 0.81- to 1.46-fold of the GMTs against parental virus, indicating small effects of these mutations on neutralization by sera elicited by two BNT162b2 doses.

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Field of study: Biology

10.1101/2021.01.27.427998