Comparative analysis of spike-specific IgG Fc glycoprofiles elicited by adenoviral, mRNA, and protein-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
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Comparative analysis of spike-specific IgG Fc glycoprofiles elicited by adenoviral, mRNA, and protein-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
in collaboration with the UMC COVID-19 S3/HCW study group, Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Infectious Diseases Physicians group, and Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) and COUGH1 study groupSummary
IgG antibodies are important mediators of vaccine-induced immunity through complement- and Fc receptor-dependent effector functions. Both are influenced by the composition of the conserved N-linked glycan located in the IgG Fc domain. Here, we compared the anti-Spike (S) IgG1 Fc glycosylation profiles in response to mRNA, adenoviral, and protein-based COVID-19 vaccines by mass spectrometry (MS). All vaccines induced a transient increase of antigen-specific IgG1 Fc galactosylation and sialylation. An initial, transient increase of afucosylated IgG was induced by membrane-encoding S protein formulations. A fucose-sensitive ELISA for antigen-specific IgG (FEASI) exploiting FcγRIIIa affinity for afucosylated IgG was used as an orthogonal method to confirm the LC-MS-based afucosylation readout. Our data suggest that vaccine-induced anti-S IgG glycosylation is dynamic, and although variation is seen between different vaccine platforms and individuals, the evolution of glycosylation patterns display marked overlaps.
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Introduction
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines induce robust IgG responses against the spike protein, particularly IgG1.1 Spike-specific IgG, induced by viral infection, vaccination, or convalescent plasma treatment,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 can convey protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or COVID-19 progression. While the IgG antigen-binding fragment (Fab) is responsible for neutralization, the crystallizable fragment (Fc) domain extends the half-life via increased FcRn-binding9 and affects optimal protection through classical FcγR or complement binding.10 Importantly, the IgG Fc N-glycans play a major role in fine-tuning these latter Fc-effector functions.11 The conserved N-glycan at position N297 consists of a biantennary glycan with a pentasaccharide core that can be further elongated by the addition of bisecting N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), fucose, galactoses, and sialic acids (Figure 1).
Workflow of vaccine-induced antibody analysis by LC-MS and FEASI
Upper panel: Longitudinal sampling regimen of study participants vaccinated with the various vaccine platforms. Middle panel: (left) Fucose-sensitive ELISA for anti-S IgG (FEASI) quantification (IgG ELISA) and FcγRIII-binding to anti-S specific IgG (FcγR-IgG ELISA) to determine IgG fucosylation; and (right) anti-S IgG1 glyco-profiling by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) by anti-S capture, wash, elution, digestion, LC-MS, and data extraction with LaCyTools.12,13 Lower panel: Influence of anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation traits on complement activation and FcγRIII binding.
While most human IgG is fucosylated (~94% of total IgG), IgG lacking core fucose (afucosylated IgG) is found against allo-antigens on blood cells,14,15,16 antigens of Plasmodium falciparum expressed on the red blood cell (RBC) membrane,17 and various enveloped viruses,18,19,20,21 as recently reviewed by Oosterhoff et al.11 Interestingly, a common denominator of these responses is host cell membrane-embedded antigen recognition. Afucosylated IgG has an increased affinity (up to 40 times) to the FcγRIII receptor family, enhancing activation of myeloid and NK cells, and subsequent antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC).22,23,24 In addition, targets opsonized with afucosylated IgG are more capable of inducing NK cell responses than those with fucose-enriched IgG.23,25 The fucosylation levels of de novo antibodies induced in aforementioned responses varied (5–90%)11 and were previously thought to be stable over decades, as constant afucosylation levels have been observed for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),20 cytomegalovirus (CMV),18 malaria,17 RBC,26 and platelets.15 More recently, however, transient afucosylated responses have been observed in naive individuals both following SARS-CoV-2 infection18,27,28,29 and Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination.12,29,30
IgG Fc galactosylation levels are highly variable between individuals and decline with age.31,32,33 Functionally, increased galactosylation elevates the potential of IgG to activate the classical complement pathway via increased binding to C1q.23,34 This increase is mediated by the formation of IgG hexamers that serve as docking platforms for the hexameric C1q.35,36,37,38 On top of this, IgG galactosylation slightly enhances the binding to FcγR, particularly for afucosylated IgG.23 By contrast, the functional effects of bisection and sialylation of IgG1 Fc portions appear to be minor or negligible.23,35,39
Protein and attenuated viral vaccines have been reported to exclusively induce fucosylated antigen-specific IgG17,40,41 with increased levels of galactosylation and sialylation.20,40,42 These vaccines are mainly composed of proteins and/or polysaccharides, and in contrast to mRNA and adenovirus-based vaccines, do not result in host membrane embedding of the antigen. We have previously postulated that afucosylated IgG responses are only found against membrane-embedded epitopes11,18 and recently found that the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine induces an initial, transient afucosylated response in most naive, but not in SARS-CoV-2 antigen-experienced individuals.12
Here, we set out to characterize and compare IgG1 Fc glycosylation in individuals administered with different SARS-CoV-2 vaccine platforms including the mRNA-based Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) and Moderna (mRNA-1273) vaccines, as well as the adenovirus-based Janssen (Ad26.COV2.S) and AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1nCoV-19) vaccines. We also included the S protein-based capsid virus-like particle (cVLP; ABNCoV2) vaccine.43 We assessed the vaccine-induced, S protein-specific IgG1 Fc glycosylation by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) for all vaccines. In addition, fucosylation was assessed with an immunoassay named fucose-sensitive ELISA for antigen-specific IgG (FEASI).44 This immunoassay quantifies antigen-specific IgG levels and qualitatively determines IgG responses with an FcγRIII binding-dependent readout. Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 resulted in dynamic changes in spike-specific IgG1 fucosylation, galactosylation, and sialylation, which displayed similarities between different vaccine platforms.
Results
Vaccine study cohorts
Vaccine-induced antibody responses were compared across three different SARS-CoV-2 vaccine platforms: mRNA- and adenoviral-based, and a capsid-like protein vaccine (Figure 1A; and Table 1), using the previously characterized Pfizer mRNA cohort (n = 48).12 We included cohorts vaccinated with the mRNA1273 Moderna vaccine (n = 8), adenoviral-based Ad26.COV2.S Janssen (n = 78) and ChAdOx1nCoV-19 AstraZeneca vaccine (n = 17), and the S protein-based cVLP ABNCoV2 vaccine (n = 45).43 Vaccinees in these cohorts were sampled longitudinally and received a second dose according to specific regimens (Figure 1A; Tables 1 and S1–S5). Individuals were classified as antigen-experienced according to prior positive PCR tests when available, and/or if anti-S and anti-nucleocapsid (N) levels exceeded pre-outbreak levels prior to vaccination (Figures 1A, A,2A,2A, and S1; Tables S1–S5). Formal sample size calculations were not conducted for this current study, nor were individuals included based on demographics, i.e., samples were included based on availability. The different location and timing of sampling resulted in significant differences between cohorts with respect to age (ANOVA, p = 3.2 × 10−11) and sex (Chi-square, p = 1.6 × 10−5) (Table S6). Combined, the cohorts span a range of ages from 18 to 79 years, with a female ratio of 53%.
Table 1
Summary of vaccination cohort
| Pfizer | Moderna | Janssen | AstraZeneca | RUMC/COUGH1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Pfizer/BioNTech | Moderna | Janssen Vaccines and Prevention | AstraZeneca | AdaptVac & Bavarian Nordic |
| Trade name | Comirnaty | SpikeVax | JCOVDEN | Vaxzevria | NA |
| Vaccine name | BNT162b2 | mRNA-1273 | Ad26.COV2.S | ChAdOx1nCoV-19 | ABNCoV2 |
| Vaccine platform | mRNA | mRNA | Adenovector | Adenovector | Protein vaccine Capsid-like particle |
| Participants | |||||
| N | 48 | 8 | 78 | 17 | 45 |
| Of which ag-exp. | 6 (15%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) | 2 (12%) | 0 (0%) |
| Positive PCR | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Female, n (%) Male, n (%) | 32 (67%) 16 (33%) | 8 (100%) 0 (0%) | 25 (32%) 53 (68%) | 13 (76%) 4 (24%) | 26 (58%) 19 (42%) |
| Age | |||||
| Range | 23-64 | 26-56 | 20-79 | 60-66 | 18-54 |
| Median | 40 | 33 | 50 | 62 | 26 |
| Q1-Q3 | 32-50 | 27-44 | 36-67 | 61-65 | 22-34 |
| Regimen | |||||
| Different regimens | No | No | 2 | No | 7 |
| Days between doses | 20-24 | 28 | 57 | 43-78 | 26-35 |
| Doses received | 2 | 2 | 1 or 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Serum analysis (days after 1st dose) | 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 21, 24, 28, 31, 35, 42, 49 | 0, 3, 7, 10, 21, 28, 35, 38, 42, 49, 56 | 1, 15, 29, 57, 64, 71, 85, 169 | 0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 21, 28, 77, 80, 84, 87, 91, 98, 105 | 14, 24, 42 |
Dynamics of anti-Spike IgG levels and IgG1 Fc glycosylation
(A) Longitudinal anti-S IgG levels in Arbitrary Units (AU) per mL for all vaccines except for Janssen, which is expressed in Antibody Binding Units (ABU) per mL (thus not directly comparable with the other cohorts). The dotted horizontal line signifies the limit of detection. The solid horizontal line signifies the pre-outbreak threshold value as determined by pre-pandemic samples (95th percentile) (Figure S2). IgG1 Fc (B) fucosylation, (C) bisection, (D) galactosylation, and (E) sialylation for naive (circle, purple: one dose, blue: two doses) and antigen-experienced (orange triangle: two doses) vaccinees for Pfizer (n = 48), Moderna (n = 8), one (n = 39) or two (n = 39) doses Janssen (n = 78), AstraZeneca (n = 17), and RUMC/COUGH1 (n = 45). Range of the scheduled second vaccine dose is depicted vertically in gray. Previously published Pfizer data are included for comparative purposes.12 Statistical comparisons were conducted between the timepoints 2 weeks after 1st and 2 weeks after 2nd vaccination dose and are presented in Figures S4 and S6 for anti-S levels and glycosylation traits, respectively.
All vaccine platforms induce detectable anti-S IgG levels
First, anti-S IgG levels were determined for all vaccine cohorts by ELISA. To determine the pre-outbreak threshold, the anti-S levels were measured in 264 pre-pandemic samples (Figure S2). In line with previous work, detectable anti-S IgG levels for naive vaccinees were measured at the first available time point for these cohorts (between days 7 and 10 for the mRNA vaccines and AstraZeneca, and at days 14 and 15 for RUMC/COUGH1 and Janssen, respectively). The anti-S levels further increased after the second dose (Figures 2A and S4).1 Vaccinees in the Janssen cohort received either one or two doses, with higher levels of anti-S being observed in individuals receiving two doses (Figures 2A, S3A, and S4).3,45 Lower anti-S levels were observed in the AstraZeneca cohort in comparison to the mRNA and protein vaccines, as previously described (Figure S4).46 In the RUMC/COUGH1 vaccine cohort, participants were vaccinated with increasing doses with or without the MF59 adjuvant, both of which generally resulted in increased anti-S IgG levels (Figures 2A and S5A). All antigen-experienced individuals had detectable anti-S levels before vaccination, which increased after the first dose (Figure 2A). Naive individuals receiving two doses reached anti-S IgG levels similar to antigen-experienced vaccinees after one dose. An exception was AstraZeneca, where two antigen-experienced vaccinees exhibited considerably higher levels than most naive individuals receiving two doses (Figure 2A).
Vaccine-induced anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation is dynamic
Next, we established the longitudinal anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation profiles and compared these across the studied vaccine platforms (Figures 1 and and2B–2E).2B–2E). Sex and age have been reported to influence total IgG glycosylation.31,32 Indeed, we found that both sex and age affected the total IgG glycosylation profiles, although to a limited extent (Table S7). However, in spite of the differences observed in age in a sex-stratified manner among the cohorts, their influence remains unaffected on the anti-S IgG Fc profiles (Table S8).
Dynamic anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation was observed across all cohorts with a substantial variation in responses between individuals (Figures 2B–2E). We previously observed a transient, afucosylated anti-S IgG1 glycosylation pattern in naive, but not antigen-experienced vaccinees for the Pfizer mRNA vaccine.12 Similarly, an initial, transient afucosylated anti-S IgG response was observed after the first dose, which diminished over time. After 2 weeks, all cohorts reached near fully fucosylated IgG glycosylation profiles (Figures 2B and S6A). The strongest afucosylation levels were observed for individuals in the mRNA and Janssen cohorts. However, early afucosylated responses might have been missed in samples with low IgG levels, especially for AstraZeneca, but also because of lack of very early time points (i.e., before day 14). For some individuals (7 out of 78) in the Janssen cohort, a sustained afucosylation trend was observed after 50 days, regardless of the number of doses (Figures 2B and S3B). For all vaccine platforms, anti-S IgG1 bisection levels were also dynamic over time, but appeared to be comparable two weeks after the first and second doses (Figures 2C and S6B). Anti-S IgG1 galactosylation and sialylation were highly dynamic across all cohorts. A transient increase of anti-S IgG1 galactosylation and sialylation was observed after the first dose (Figures 2C, 2D, S6C, and S6D). This was also observed after the second dose for the Janssen and RUMC/Bavarian Nordic (BN) cohort (Figures 2C, 2D, S3D, S3E, and S5D–S5E).
Similar vaccine-induced anti-S Fc glycosylation is observed
Albeit dynamic antigen-specific anti-S IgG1 glycosylation levels were observed, no such changes were observed for total IgG1 Fc glycosylation (Figures 2 and and33).
Total IgG1 Fc glycosylation is stable over time
Longitudinal, total IgG1 Fc (A) fucosylation, (B) bisection, (C) galactosylation, and (D) sialylation for naive (circle, purple: one dose, blue: two doses) and antigen-experienced (orange triangle: two doses) vaccinees for Pfizer (n = 48), Moderna (n = 8), one (n = 39) or two (n = 39) doses Janssen (n = 78), AstraZeneca (n = 17), and RUMC/COUGH1 (n = 45). Range of the scheduled second vaccine dose is depicted vertically in gray. Previously published data were included for comparative purposes.12
The initial levels of anti-S IgG1 Fc fucosylation generally reached levels similar or higher to total IgG three to four weeks after the first dose (Figures 2B, B,3A,3A, and S8A). For Pfizer, Janssen, and RUMC/COUGH1, anti-S IgG1 bisection levels were significantly lower than their total IgG1 counterpart (Figures 2C, C,3B,3B, and S8B). Furthermore, significant increases in anti-S IgG1 Fc galactosylation and sialylation levels were seen observed compared to total IgG1 for these three vaccines (Figures 2D, 2E, 2E,3C,3C, 3D, S8C, and S8D). Similar trends were also seen for both Moderna and AstraZeneca, albeit not significant, likely due to the small sample size of both cohorts (Figures 3 and S8C). In summary, albeit differences in anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation levels were seen between individuals and vaccine platforms, similar changes were observed in anti-S compared to total IgG1 Fc glycosylation.
Anti-S IgG1 fucosylation correlates with FcγRIIIa binding
To assess the functional impact of afucosylation, we measured IgG Fc fucosylation with FEASI. This dual ELISA-based method uses both a typical anti-S IgG ELISA (Figure 2A) and an FcγRIIIa ELISA (FcγRIIIa-IgG ELISA) (Figures 4A and and1,1, middle panel). The latter uses the sensitivity of FcγRIIIa to IgG fucosylation as a proxy to quantify IgG fucosylation levels (Figures 1 and and4A).4A). This FcγRIIIa binding (Figure 4A) is normalized against the anti-S IgG levels measured (Figure 2A) to quantify a degree of antigen-specific IgG fucosylation (Figure 4B). FEASI was not carried out for the Janssen cohort due to sample unavailability. For all other cohorts, dynamic FcγRIIIa binding was seen over time. Initially, the FcγRIIIa binding was low due to low anti-S IgG levels. Over time, the FcγRIIIa binding further increased (Figure 4A). After correcting for anti-S IgG levels (Figure 2A), the FEASI-obtained IgG fucosylation levels (Figure 4B) correlated strongly to the corresponding LC-MS measurement (Figure 4C). As IgG Fc galactosylation has been shown to have a minor enhancing effect on FcγRIII affinity, in particular on afucosylated IgG,23,44 the IgG Fc glycosylation levels are depicted by a color gradient (Figure 4C). However, this enhancing effect was not observed in this study on naturally glycovariant IgG as in the aforementioned studies on glycoengineered monoclonal IgG.
Anti-Spike IgG1 fucosylation level correlates with FcγRIIIa binding
(A) Anti-S IgG binding to FcγRIIIa.
(B) Anti-S fucosylation levels determined by FEASI for naive (blue circle) and antigen-experienced (orange triangle) vaccinees for Pfizer (n = 39), Moderna (n = 8), AstraZeneca (n = 17), and RUMC/COUGH1 (n = 45).
(C) Spearman’s correlation of anti-S IgG fucosylation determined by FEASI and LC-MS for all available time points (circle: naive; triangle: antigen-experienced vaccinees). Color gradient indicates galactosylation level.
Discussion
Vaccination can potentially influence vaccine-elicited antigen-specific IgG Fc glycosylation, although the mechanisms and consequences remain unclear at present. In this study, we investigated the influence of multiple SARS-CoV-2 vaccine platforms on antigen-specific antibody glycosylation. We utilized LC-MS to longitudinally characterize anti-S IgG1 Fc N-glycosylation for two mRNA vaccines (BNT162b2, Pfizer and mRNA-1273, Moderna), two adenovirus-based vaccines (Ad26.COV2.S, Janssen and ChAdOx1nCoV-19, AstraZeneca), and an S protein-based cVLP vaccine (ABNCoV2, RUMC/COUGH1). We furthermore applied the FEASI immunoassay, utilizing FcγRIII binding to measure afucosylation levels, which corroborated the LC-MS-obtained fucosylation levels.
Natural SARS-CoV-2 infection induces dynamic, specific anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation patterns.18,27,28,47,48,49 Notably, remarkably elevated afucosylated anti-spike IgG has been shown to be most prominent at seroconversion in severe COVID-19 patients, which reverted to normal levels within 2–3 weeks for most individuals.18,28,49,50 The observed afucosylation was associated with increased inflammatory cytokine levels and immune-related pathologies.18,50 Furthermore, at seroconversion, elevated anti-S and -N IgG1 Fc galactosylation and sialylation and low bisection were found.18,27,48 However, these high galactosylation and sialylation levels, particularly the former, dropped quickly in the following 2–3 weeks (from ~80% to ~30% for galactosylation).11,27,48
Anti-S IgG1 glycosylation upon BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination has also been reported to be highly dynamic.12,29,51 In this study, we likewise observed dynamic anti-S IgG1 Fc glycosylation responses over time and revealed similar trends for other SARS-CoV-2 vaccine platforms. Upon seroconversion, transient afucosylated anti-S was found in all vaccine platforms, albeit to a lesser extent for AstraZeneca and RUMC/COUGH1. However, early afucosylated responses might have been missed in samples with low IgG levels, especially for AstraZeneca, but also because of the lack of sampling before day 14. In most individuals, afucosylation decreased and reached levels comparable to total IgG three to four weeks after the initial dose. At seroconversion, when anti-S levels are low and neutralizing responses are not yet fully developed, afucosylated anti-S antibodies in naive vaccinees might provide enhanced protection through FcγRIIIa-assisted effector functions.11,18,50 Subsequently, when these afucosylation levels drop, protection might instead be provided by increased anti-S levels and Fab-mediated neutralizing capacity. Unlike natural SARS-COV-2 infection, afucosylation upon BNT162b2 vaccination did not correlate with increased IL-6 levels.12 This disparity might be attributed to the fact that during natural infection, antigen-specific levels coincide with remarkably increased afucosylation, whereas in the context of vaccination, initial levels are low. We observed a sustained decrease in fucosylation after ~50 days for some Janssen vaccinees (7 out of 78), irrespective of a booster dose. Unfortunately, no sampling was performed after day 50–60 for Pfizer, Moderna, and RUMC/COUGH1, which could have facilitated a more thorough comparison. Furthermore, for all vaccine platforms, substantially increased anti-S IgG1 Fc galactosylation and sialylation were observed in comparison to total IgG1 levels, which gradually faded over time, in line with results from other studies.12,40,52,53 Increased galactosylation enhances the capacity of IgG to form IgG-hexamers and activate complement,35,38 indicating that enhanced protection through complement might manifest in this early time frame. Overall, the examined vaccine platforms in this study generally seem to mimic the kinetics previously observed in mild SARS-CoV2 infection, namely initial afucosylated and highly galactosylated anti-S IgG1 glycosylation.18,27,49
In summary, our data show that vaccination with the S protein delivered by mRNA and adenoviral vectors, both resulting in host-cell membrane expression, as well as S protein-based cVLP vaccine, are capable of eliciting potent antigen-specific IgG antibodies with comparable, but not identical glycoprofiles. These data suggest vaccination induces similar anti-S glycosylation trends in naive individuals, specifically transiently increased galactosylation, sialylation, and decreased fucosylation and bisection. In contrast, total IgG1 glycosylation profiles, slightly influenced by genetic and environmental factors, remained stable and distinct.31,32,54 Further studies are needed to unravel the mechanism behind this antigen-specific IgG Fc glycosylation and study the influence of both the formulation and timing of re-exposure in the form of a booster. An improved understanding of antigen-specific antibody glycosylation and its underlying mechanism might offer novel routes to improved vaccines but also improved vaccination strategies for enhanced protective immunity.
Limitations of the study
This work has a number of limitations. One of these is the demographic variation between the different cohorts, as a consequence of being recruited at different times and for distinct purposes. Sex, age, and other demographic characteristics are known to influence total IgG antibody glycosylation. Specifically, total IgG Fc galactosylation and sialylation declines with age and showed significant sex dependence. IgG Fc bisection is known to increase in young adults and reaches a plateau at older age. Conversely, IgG Fc fucosylation is high during early age, but slightly declines throughout adolescence.11,31,32 In this study, total IgG1 glycosylation was found to be marginally affected by sex and age. A second limitation is the low statistical power to perform potentially meaningful comparisons for Moderna and AstraZeneca due to small sample size that were possible for other cohorts. Besides demographics and sample size, the vaccine cohorts also differed slightly in sample collection timing. The Janssen and RUMC/COUGH1 cohort lacked samples before day 14, and only Janssen included sampling beyond day ~50, making it difficult to formally compare trends in glycosylation patterns for these time points.
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Methods
Key resources table
| REAGENT or RESOURCE | SOURCE | IDENTIFIER |
|---|---|---|
| Antibodies | ||
| anti-IgG HRP | Sanquin | M1268 |
| streptavidin–poly-HRP | Sanquin | M2032 |
| Biological samples | ||
| Vaccinee sera | Amsterdam University Medical Center and Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V. | S3 cohort; NL 73478.029.20, Netherlands Trial Register NL8645, and |
| Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins | ||
| Spike protein | In house | Brouwer et al. |
| Nucleocapsid protein | In house | Brouwer et al. |
| FcgRIIIa-V158 | In house | Šuštić et al. |
| TMB | Thermo Scientific | #34029 |
| Tween 20 | Sigma Aldrich | Cat# P9416-100ML |
| BirA | Sanquin | N/A |
| Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin | Promega | Cat#V511A |
| Formic Acid | Sigma-Aldrich | Cat#94318; CAS: 64-18-6 |
| Acetonitrile (LC-MS grade) | Biosolve | Cat#012078; CAS: 75-05- |
| Trifluoroacetic Acid (LC-MS grade) | Merck | Cat#85183; CAS: 76-05-1 |
| Ammonium Bicarbonate | Sigma-Aldrich | Cat#09830; CAS: 1066-33 |
| Critical commercial assays | ||
| Anti-S IgG Abs level measurement | Nexelis | N/A |
| Anti-N IgG Abs level measurement | Nexelis | N/A |
| Deposited data | ||
| Liquid chromatography - Mass spectrometry data | This paper, deposited in MassIVE dataset Repository | https://doi.org/10.25345/C59P2WG9B Accession code: MSV000092012 |
| Experimental models: Cell lines | ||
| 293T | ATCC | CRL-1573 |
| Software and algorithms | ||
| LaCyTools | Jansen et al. | https://git.lumc.nl/cpm/lacytools |
| R | R Foundation for Statistical Computing | https://www.r-project.org/ |
| RStudio | Posit Software, PBC | https://posit.co/ |
| Bruker Compass DataAnalysis | Bruker Daltonics | https://www.bruker.com/ |
| MSConvertGUI | ProteoWizard | https://proteowizard.sourceforge.io/ |
| Other | ||
| NUNC MaxiSorp 96-well flat-bottom plates | Sigma Aldrich | M9410 |
| Corning 3690 half-area plates | Sigma Aldrich | CLS3690 |
| Protein G AssayMAP Cartridge | Agilent | G5496-60008 |
| HisTRAP column | Sigma Aldrich | GE17-5255-01 |
Resource availability
Lead contact
Further information and requests for resources and reagents should be directed to and will be fulfilled by the lead contact, Prof. Gestur Vidarsson ([email protected]).
Materials availability
The vaccinee sera is a limited resource.
Experimental model and study participants
Ethical statement
All participants were included through informed written consent and all studies complied with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Human participants
All vaccinee participants were included through informed written consent and all studies complied with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. All available demographic information is reported in Tables S1–S5. An analysis on the influence of sex and gender on the results is reported in Tables S6–S8. Formal sample size calculations were not conducted for this current study, nor were individuals included based on demographics, i.e. samples were included based on availability.
Vaccination study cohorts
Cohort 1. Pfizer
Subjects were part of the S3 cohort study (S3 cohort; NL 73478.029.20, Netherlands Trial Register NL8645), a prospective serologic surveillance cohort study among hospital healthcare workers in the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC). Between January and March 2021, 39 cohort participants received their first dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer/BioNTech). A second dose was administered approximately 21 days after the first dose. Samples were obtained directly before (pre-vaccination) and around 3, 7, 10 and 14 days after the first dose, and directly before and around 3, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 28 days after the second dose. The ethics committee of the AUMC approved the study. Furthermore, nine healthcare workers at the Luigi Sacco Infectious Diseases Hospital, Milano, Italy were included in this cohort. They received a 2nd dose 21 days after the 1st dose. Blood samples were obtained directly before the 1st dose, and twice a week for six weeks from December 2020 to February 2021 (Tables 1 and S1). All participants were included through informed written consent.
Cohort 2. Moderna
This cohort is part of the S3 cohort study (S3 cohort; NL 73478.029.20, Netherlands Trial Register NL8645), a prospective serologic surveillance cohort study among hospital healthcare workers in the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC). On April 9th of 2021, a cohort of healthcare workers (n=8) received their first dose of the SpikeVax mRNA vaccine (Moderna). The second dose was administered 28 days after the first. Samples were obtained directly before (pre-vaccination) and 3, 7, 10 and 14 days after the first vaccination, and directly before and 3, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 28 days after the second dose (Tables 1 and S2). Six individuals had both anti-N and anti-S levels above threshold prior to vaccination, of which 5 had a positive PCR test. The ethics committee of the AUMC approved the study.
Cohort 3. Janssen
This cohort is part of the Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V. VAC31518COV2001 clinical trial. Participants (n=75) received the JCOVDEN adenovirus-based vaccine. A second dose was administered to 38 of the participants after 57 days after the first dose. Samples were obtained on the day of vaccination (pre-vaccination) and 15, 29, 57, 64, 71, 85, and 169 days after the first dose (Tables 1 and S3). Based on anti-N ELISA results, it was concluded that five volunteers may have had antigen experience with SARS-CoV-2 prior to study enrolment. While anti-N positivity of these volunteers was above cut-off (100-130 AU; cut-off: 48 AU) at each of the three sampling points (day 1, 57, 169), only one volunteer had anti-S levels (192 AU) above cut-off (50 AU) at day 1. For none of these volunteers anti-S IgG1 glycosylation profiling could be determined. Thus, as four of these volunteers were negative based on both anti-S ELISA and MS following affinity-isolation of anti-S antibodies, the results suggest that the anti-N ELISA readouts were false positives. Based on these assumptions, it was concluded that only one volunteer was antigen-experienced at baseline. Anti-N data further suggested that two volunteers possibly became infected during the study, as the first volunteer was positive for the N antigen at day 169 (454 AU), and volunteer two at day 59 (304 AU) and day 169 (317 AU). Two volunteers showed anti-N ELISA levels just above cut-off: for the first volunteer day 1 (50 AU) and day 57 (57 AU) and for the second at day 1 (56 AU). Again, none of these volunteers were anti-S positive using neither by anti-S ELISA nor by MS at day 1, indicating potential false positivity. Lastly, one volunteer was considered as a non-responder, because at none of the time points did (s)he show anti-S positivity by ELISA.
Cohort 4. AstraZeneca
This cohort is part of the S3 cohort study (S3 cohort; NL 73478.029.20, Netherlands Trial Register NL8645), a prospective serologic surveillance cohort study among hospital healthcare workers in the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC). Between April 7th and 15th 2021, a cohort of healthcare workers (n=17) received their first dose of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 adenovirus-based vaccine (AstraZeneca). The criteria for this vaccine were based on their age of 60 years or older, as part of the national vaccination strategy in the Netherlands. A second dose was administered 6 to 10 weeks after the first dose. Samples were obtained directly before (pre-vaccination) and approximately 3, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 28 days after the first dose, and directly before and 3, 7, 10, 14, 21 and 28 days after the second dose (Tables 1 and S4). The ethics committee of the AUMC approved the study.
Cohort 5. RUMC/COUGH1
This cohort is part of the NCT04839146 clinical trial of Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) in the framework of the EU-funded Prevent-nCoV project to evaluate the immunogenicity, safety, and tolerability of ABNCoV2 vaccine in SARS-CoV-2 seronegative and seropositive adult subjects.43 Participants (n=45) were included in seven different regimens and received different ABNCoV2 protein vaccine (RBD domain) concentrations with and without MF59 adjuvants. A second dose was received around 26-35 days after the first dose. Samples were obtained around 14 and 25 days after the first dose and 14 days after the second dose (Tables 1 and S5).
Cell lines
HEK 293 cells (human embryonic kidney cell: ATCC, CRL-3216) were maintained at 37°C in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM, Sigma-Aldrich, Cat# D6429) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS, Sigma-Aldrich).
Method details
Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels
For the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZenenca and RUMC/COUGH1 cohort, anti-S IgG and -N total Abs levels were measured by anti-S IgG ELISA and anti-N bridging ELISA, respectively.12,44,55 The spike and nucleocapsid protein containing a polyhistidine and BirA tag were produced in-house in HEK 293 cells. Washing steps in either ELISA included five washes with PBS supplemented with 0.02% polysorbate-20 (PBS-T), after every step described below other than stopping development. Samples in either ELISA were diluted in PBS-T supplemented with 0.3% gelatin (PTG). Absorbance was measured at 450 and 540 nm, and the difference was used for further analysis (optical density, OD).
The anti-S IgG ELISA was performed in MaxiSorp microplates (Thermo Fisher Scientific) with a per-step volume of 100 μg/well. Plates were coated overnight at 4°C with 1 μg/ml S in PBS. Samples were diluted 1:400 to 1:1200 in PTG depending on the anti-S IgG levels and incubated for 1 hour at room temperature (RT) while shaking. 0.5 μg/ml anti-IgG HRP (Sanquin, MH16-1) in PTG was then incubated for 30 minutes at RT while shaking. Lastly, 75% tetramethylbenzidine substrate (TMB, Thermo, 34029, 25% water) was added to develop, and the reaction was stopped with 0.2 M H2SO4 (Merck). Anti-S IgG levels were determined based on a pooled plasma standard collected from COVID-19 convalescent healthy donors in May 2020, arbitrarily assigned a value of 100 AU/ml and used in a 1:1 serial dilution from 1:400 to 1:25600 with a PTG blank.
The anti-N bridging ELISA was performed in half-area microplates (Corning 3690) with a per-step volume of 50 μg/well. Plates were coated overnight at 4°C with 0.3 μg/ml N in PBS. Samples were diluted 1:10 in PTG and incubated for 1 hour at RT while shaking. 0.008 μg/ml in-house biotinylated N in PTG was incubated for 1 hour at RT while shaking, followed by incubation with 1:10 000 streptavidin-poly-HRP (Sanquin, M2032) in PTG for 30 min at RT while shaking. 75% tetramethylbenzidine substrate (TMB, Thermo, 34029, 25% water) was added to develop, and the reaction was stopped with 0.2 M H2SO4 (Merck). OD values were normalized to readings of the same May 2020 plasma pool described above, which was included on each plate, and reported as normalized OD (nOD).
The anti-S IgG levels of 264 pre-pandemic samples were determined and the pre-outbreak threshold of 3.19 AU/ml for seropositivity was determined based on the 95th percentile of these samples.
Anti-S and -N IgG Abs level measurements for the Janssen cohort were carried out at Nexelis (Laval, Canada) using their validated ELISA.45
IgG Fc glycosylation analysis by mass spectrometry
Anti-S IgG Abs were affinity-captured.12,18,56 NUNC MaxiSorp 96-well flat-bottom plates (Sigma Aldrich) were coated with 250 μl/well in-house produced, trimerized, spike protein-coated plates at 5 μg/ml in PBS at 4°C overnight.18,57 Plates were washed five times in PBST and incubated with 200 μl/well 1:10 diluted plasma or serum in PBS for 1 hour at RT, shaking. Plates were washed five times in PBST, followed by a 200 μl/well 100 mM formic acid elution step.
Total IgG Abs were affinity-captured from plasma or sera using 5 μl Protein G AssayMAP Cartridge Rack on the Bravo (Agilent Technologies).12,18 For this, 0.5 μl serum or plasma diluted in 100 μl PBS was applied to the cartridges, followed by washes with PBS and LC-MS grade water. IgG antibodies were eluted with 40 μl 1% formic acid.
Eluates from both anti-S and total IgG affinity-purification were dried by vacuum centrifugation and subjected to tryptic digestion overnight at 37°C following their resuspension in 20 μl 50 mM ammonium bicarbonate and 20 μl sequencing grade trypsin solution (25 ng per sample: Promega Corporation, WI, Madison). Following tryptic digestion, the purified anti-S IgG glycopeptides were either measured directly or stored at -20°C until LC-MS analysis.12,18,27
Glycopeptides were separated and detected using an Dionex Ultimate 3000 high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) equipped with an PepMap™ Neo C18 (5 μm particles, 100 Å pores, 0.3 x 5 mm) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, cat. nr. 174500) and NanoEase M/Z peptide BEH C18 (1.7 μm particles, 130 Å pores, 75 μm x 100 mm) (Waters, cat. no. 186008792) analytical column. First, five hundred nL of total IgG or two hundred nl of anti-S IgG was injected into the system, followed by loading on the trap column at a flowrate of 25 μl/min of eluent A (0.02% TFA) for 1 min at 45°C for pre-concentration and desalting purposes. After valve switching, the glycopeptides were backflushed toward the analytical column, and separated with a two-step linear gradient from 97% solvent A (0.02% trifluoroacetic acid in water) and 3% solvent B (95% ACN) down to 21.7% solvent B in 4.5 min, after which it goes to 50% within a minute (5.5 min), at a flowrate of 600 nl/min at 45°C. The LC system was hyphenated to an Impact HD quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer (Bruker Daltonics, Billerica, MA) via an electrospray ionization interface, which was equipped with a CaptiveSpray nanoBooster using ACN-enriched nitrogen gas (at 0.2 bar pressure and a dry gas flow rate of 3 l/min). A frequency of 1 Hz was used for recording the spectra in the m/z range of 550–1800 in positive ion polarity mode. The transfer time was set to 110 ms, the pre-pulse storage time to 21 μs, while the collision energy was set to 5 eV. This method allowed unambiguous identification of IgG Fc glycopeptides in a subclass-specific manner based on accurate mass (MS1) and specific migration positions in liquid chromatography.
LC-MS data processing
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry data processing mzXML files were generated from raw liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC-MS) spectra. Raw LC-MS spectra were analysed using the in-house developed software LaCyTools.13 LC-MS readouts that had no corresponding anti-S ELISA result were excluded. Alignment was performed based on average retention time of at least three highly abundant glycoforms. The analyte list for targeted extraction of the 2+ and 3+ charge states was based on manual annotation as well as on literature reports18,58 and inclusion of an analyte was based on quality criteria as follows: a signal-to-noise higher than 9, isotopic pattern quality less than 25% deviation from the theoretical isotopic pattern, and mass error within a ±20 parts per million range (Table S9). For reasons of comparability, an overlapping glycopeptides list was used to calculate glycosylation traits (bisection, galactosylation, sialylation and fucosylation) by normalizing the relative intensity of each glycopeptide species to the sum of their total areas (Table S10), analogously to previous reports.12,18,27 All analytes in the overlapping glycopeptide list conformed with the described quality criteria.
FEASI
Fucose-sensitive ELISA for antigen-specific IgG was performed as described in Šuštić et al.44 Human FcγRIIIa-V158 containing a polyhistidine tag and Avi-Tag was cloned in the pcDNA3.1 mammalian expression vector. The receptor was produced in HEK293 Freestyle cells and five days after transfection, the supernatants was harvested, filtered and isolated using a HIS-trap column (GE Life Sciences) on an ÄKTA prime plus system (GE Life Sciences). The receptor was site-specific C-terminally biotinylated. For biotinylation of 1 μM FcγRIIIa, 3.3 nM BirA ligase (Sanquin) was added and MWCO 10 kDa Amicon Ultra centrifugal filter units (Merck, Millipore) were used to concentrate the sample and remove unbound biotin.
Spike-specific IgG from each plasma and/or serum sample was captured on in-house produced spike protein-coated NUNC MaxiSorp 96-well flat-bottom plates (Sigma Aldrich). For this, plates were coated overnight with 100 μl/well 1 μg/ml recombinant spike protein in PBS. Plates were washed five times with PBST and incubated for 1 hour with 100 μl/well of a dilution range of serum or plasma samples in PTG, depending on the anti-S IgG levels. After incubation, plates were washed five times with PBST. For the FcγR-ELISA, 100 μl/well 1 μg/ml biotinylated FcγRIIIa in PBST was added for 1 hour, washed five times in PBST, and incubated with 100 μl/well 0.1 μg/ml streptavidin-poly-HRP (Sanquin, M2032) in PBST and washed five times in PBST. For the IgG-ELISA, plates were incubated with 100 μl/well 1 μg/ml anti-human IgG HRP in PBST (Sanquin, M1268) and washed five times in PBST. Both ELISA’s were developed with 100 μl/well 50% water-diluted tetramethylbenzidine substrate (1-step ultra TMB, Thermo Scientific, #34029). Absorbance was measured at 450 and 540 nm and reported as optical density (OD).
Serial dilutions of each plasma and/or serum sample were compared to the convalescent blood donors plasma pool and assigned a value of 100 arbitrary units, which corresponds approximately to 21 μg/ml.44,55 Logit log transformation of serial dilutions of this calibrator sample was used as a standard curve to calculate AU values for each dilution of each sample. The geometric mean of AU values from each individual serial dilution was taken as an AU value representative of the particular sample. Ratios of AU values between the FcγRIIIa-IgG and the IgG ELISA were calculated for each assay, and geometric mean of ratios calculated from two or more independent replicates was used to calculate anti-spike fucosylation percentage according to the simple linear regression established in Šuštić et al.44 and defined as y = -0.096x + 9.893. Geometric mean of AU values from the IgG ELISA replicates were used to represent the abundance of anti-spike IgG in each sample. Detection threshold was set at 0.469 AU and quantification threshold was based on the 95th percentile of signals of 264 pre-outbreak plasma samples, as previously defined.55
Quantification and statistical analysis
Cohorts’ demographics were compared by ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc test (age) (Table S6) and Chi-squared test (sex). To compare anti-S IgG levels (Figure S4) and relative abundances of anti-S (Figure S6) and total IgG1 Fc glycosylation traits (Figure S8), Kruskal-Wallis tests were carried out. In case of significance, a Kruskal-Wallis test was followed by post-hoc Dunn’s test(s) (Figures S4, S6, and S8). For the comparison of paired groups, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used (Figures S1 and S7). Spearman’s correlation was used to explore correlations between IgG(1) Fc fucosylation measured by FEASI and MS (Figure 4), as well as to investigate correlations between demographics and anti-S IgG levels, or anti-S and total IgG1 Fc glycosylation (Tables S7 and S8). P-values < 0.05 were considered as significant following correction for multiple testing per statistical question using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure with a false discovery rate (FDR) of 5%. Asterisks indicate the degree of significance as follows: , , , : p-value < 0.05, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, respectively. Statistical analyses and visualizations were performed in R (version 4.2.2; R foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria) and RStudio (version 2022.12.0, Build 353; RStudio, Boston, MA).
Acknowledgments
We thank the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, the Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V., and Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) & Bavarian Nordic A/S. We furthermore thank all cohort participants, to whom we are greatly indebted for their extensive participation.
Funding: Landsteiner foundation for Blood Transfusion Research (LSBR) grants 1721 and 1908 (G.V.). ZonMW COVID-19 grant 1043001 201 0021 (G.V.). Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development ZonMw & the Amsterdam UMC Corona Research Fund (Amsterdam UMC COVID-19 S3/HCW study group). The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development ZonMW VENI grant, grant number 09150161910033 (L.A.V.V.). Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic [H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020 grant agreement ID: 101003608 ] (M.W.). Semper Ardens Carlsberg Foundation (M.W.). This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, under Other Transaction Agreement HHSO100201700018C. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the United States Department of Health and Human Services or its components.
Author contributions
Conceptualization: G.V., M.W., C.E.v.d.S., A.V., and D.E.S. Methodology: G.V., M.W., J.V.C., T.P., and T.S. Formal analysis: J.V.C., T.P., T.S., and S.K. Investigation: J.V.C., T.S., T.P., S.K., M.S., F.L., R.V., W.W., and J.N. Resources: D.S., L.A.v.V., W.H., M.A.S., R.M., M.K.B., J.J.S., A.S., D.S., M.A.N., B.G.M., R.R., M.L.G., and the UMC COVID-19 S3/HCW study group, Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Infectious Diseases Physicians group and Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) & Bavarian Nordic (BN) A/S. Data curation: J.V.C., T.S., T.P., S.K., and M.S. Writing – Original draft: G.V., M.W., J.V.C., T.P., and R.R. Writing – Review and editing: J.V.C., T.P., T.S., W.W., J.N., M.L.G., S.K., F.L., O.C., J.B.D.K., R.V., L.A.v.V., M.A.S., N.v.M., M.J.S., A.S., D.E.S., M.S., T.R., M.A.N., B.G.N., A.P.J.V., C.E.v.d.S., R.R., M.W., and G.V. Visualization: T.P. and J.V.C. Supervision: G.V., M.W., A.V., and R.R. Project administration: G.V., M.W., and M.S. Funding acquisition: G.V., M.W., T.P., and Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) & COUGH1.
Declaration of interests
M.L.G. and R.R. are employees of Janssen Pharmaceuticals and M.L.G. is a shareholder in Johnson & Johnson. A.S. and W.A.d.J. are employees at AdaptVac, a company commercializing virus-like particle display technology and vaccines, including several patents. A.S., A.S., T.G.T., and M.N. are founders of AdaptVac and listed as coinventors on a patent covering the AP205 CLP vaccine platform technology (WO2016112921 A1) licensed to AdaptVac. Janssen Pharmaceuticals sponsored IgG glycosylation analysis at LUMC. Sanquin provided consultancy services to Janssen Pharmaceuticals during this study. All other authors declare they have no conflicts of interests.
Notes
Published: August 14, 2023
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- • The code used to generate the visualizations in this study are available from T. Pongracz upon reasonable request.
- • Any additional information required to reanalyze the data reported in this paper is available from the lead contact upon request.
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