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ArticleNPJ vaccines2026

COVID-19 vaccination induces cross-neutralisation of sarbecoviruses related to SARS-CoV-2.

Grace E West, Rebecca B Morse, Benjamin L Sievers, Adam Abdullahi, Kimia Kamelian, Mark Tsz Kin Cheng, CITIID-NIHR BioResource COVID-19 Collaboration, Douglas G Stewart, Divya Diamond, Mazharul Altaf and 8 more

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Grace E West *University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Rebecca B Morse *University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Benjamin L SieversUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Adam AbdullahiUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Kimia KamelianUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Mark Tsz Kin ChengUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
CITIID-NIHR BioResource COVID-19 Collaboration
Douglas G StewartDivision of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Divya DiamondUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Mazharul AltafUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Lourdes Ceron-GutierrezUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Olga SokolovaUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
David L RobertsonMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Spyros LytrasDivision of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Rainer DöffingerUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Sam J WilsonUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Suzannah J RihnUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. sjr228@cam.ac.uk.
Ravindra K GuptaUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. rkg20@cam.ac.uk.

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Wellcome Trust WT108082AIA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The combined threats of future sarbecovirus zoonosis and continually emerging SARS-CoV-2 VOCs highlight the need to assess the breadth of existing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-mediated protection. Here, we investigate a cohort of older individuals who received four COVID-19 vaccine doses, for potential cross-neutralisation against lentiviral particles bearing spikes from either Omicron VOCs or other sarbecoviruses. Despite recent fourth bivalent mRNA vaccine doses (encoding SARS-CoV-2 Wu-1 and Omicron spikes), neutralisation of Omicron lineage VOCs was reduced compared to Wu-1, consistent with an imprinted immune response. Similarly, particles bearing either SARS-CoV-1 or a SARS-CoV-1-related bat sarbecovirus spike were neutralised less efficiently than Wu-1. Unexpectedly, however, we observed that particles with spikes from two animal SARS-CoV-2-related viruses, BANAL-20-52 from bats and a pangolin CoV, were significantly more sensitive to serum neutralising antibodies than SARS-CoV-2 Wu-1 itself. These surprising findings suggest that vaccine-mediated adaptive immunity may provide efficient cross-neutralisation and potential protection against certain animal sarbecoviruses.

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PMCPMC13324355

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