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ArticleVaccines2021

A Peptide-Based Assay Discriminates Individual Antibody Response to the COVID-19 Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA Vaccine.

Immacolata Polvere, Serena Voccola, Alfredina Parrella, Gaetano Cardinale, Lucrezia Zerillo, Romualdo Varricchio, Jessica Raffaella Madera, Romania Stilo, Pasquale Vito, Tiziana Zotti

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Article in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Immacolata PolvereDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, Via dei Mulini, 82100 Benevento, Italy.
Serena VoccolaGenus Biotech, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, SS Appia, 82030 Apollosa, Italy.
Alfredina ParrellaConsorzio Sannio Tech, SS Appia, 82030 Apollosa, Italy.
Gaetano CardinaleConsorzio Sannio Tech, SS Appia, 82030 Apollosa, Italy.
Lucrezia ZerilloDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, Via dei Mulini, 82100 Benevento, Italy.
Romualdo VarricchioGenus Biotech, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, SS Appia, 82030 Apollosa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2288-1868
Jessica Raffaella MaderaDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, Via dei Mulini, 82100 Benevento, Italy.
Romania StiloDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, Via dei Mulini, 82100 Benevento, Italy.
Pasquale VitoDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, Via dei Mulini, 82100 Benevento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5721-7716
Tiziana ZottiDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università Degli Studi del Sannio, Via dei Mulini, 82100 Benevento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4753-116X

Funding

Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca CUP: F26C18000160005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech has been shown to be capable of developing an excellent antibody response against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein, with good production of neutralizing antibodies. Herein, we analyzed differences in the antibody response elicited by inoculation of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine through a peptide-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that utilizes synthetic peptides derived from the spike protein in the immuno-adsorbent phase. Immunoreactivity against synthetic peptides was measured at different time points from vaccination and was also correlated with the SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing capacity. Our results indicate that all vaccinated subjects except one show reactive antibodies to at least one peptide at both 30 and 60 days after injection of the first dose. Only one of the 19 analyzed subjects showed no antibody response toward any of the selected peptides, consistently with a lower neutralizing capacity. More importantly, our data showed that the antibody response elicited by inoculation of the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine appears to be qualitatively individual, both in the type of recognized peptides and in the temporal persistence of the antibody response. Together with previous published data, our findings suggest that for effective pandemic control, it is important to constantly monitor the antibody protection in the population, and the assay described here could be a valid tool for this purpose.

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PMID34579224
PMCPMC8471059

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