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  1. Article ; Online: Host immunological responses facilitate development of SARS-CoV-2 mutations in patients receiving monoclonal antibody treatments.

    Gupta, Akshita / Konnova, Angelina / Smet, Mathias / Berkell, Matilda / Savoldi, Alessia / Morra, Matteo / Van Averbeke, Vincent / De Winter, Fien Hr / Peserico, Denise / Danese, Elisa / Hotterbeekx, An / Righi, Elda / De Nardo, Pasquale / Tacconelli, Evelina / Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / Kumar-Singh, Samir

    The Journal of clinical investigation

    2023  Volume 133, Issue 6

    Abstract: BackgroundThe role of host immunity in emergence of evasive SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations under therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) pressure remains to be explored.MethodsIn a prospective, observational, monocentric ORCHESTRA cohort study, conducted ... ...

    Abstract BackgroundThe role of host immunity in emergence of evasive SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations under therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) pressure remains to be explored.MethodsIn a prospective, observational, monocentric ORCHESTRA cohort study, conducted between March 2021 and November 2022, mild-to-moderately ill COVID-19 patients (n = 204) receiving bamlanivimab, bamlanivimab/etesevimab, casirivimab/imdevimab, or sotrovimab were longitudinally studied over 28 days for viral loads, de novo Spike mutations, mAb kinetics, seroneutralization against infecting variants of concern, and T cell immunity. Additionally, a machine learning-based circulating immune-related biomarker (CIB) profile predictive of evasive Spike mutations was constructed and confirmed in an independent data set (n = 19) that included patients receiving sotrovimab or tixagevimab/cilgavimab.ResultsPatients treated with various mAbs developed evasive Spike mutations with remarkable speed and high specificity to the targeted mAb-binding sites. Immunocompromised patients receiving mAb therapy not only continued to display significantly higher viral loads, but also showed higher likelihood of developing de novo Spike mutations. Development of escape mutants also strongly correlated with neutralizing capacity of the therapeutic mAbs and T cell immunity, suggesting immune pressure as an important driver of escape mutations. Lastly, we showed that an antiinflammatory and healing-promoting host milieu facilitates Spike mutations, where 4 CIBs identified patients at high risk of developing escape mutations against therapeutic mAbs with high accuracy.ConclusionsOur data demonstrate that host-driven immune and nonimmune responses are essential for development of mutant SARS-CoV-2. These data also support point-of-care decision making in reducing the risk of mAb treatment failure and improving mitigation strategies for possible dissemination of escape SARS-CoV-2 mutants.FundingThe ORCHESTRA project/European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; Antibodies, Viral ; Cohort Studies ; COVID-19/genetics ; Mutation ; Prospective Studies ; SARS-CoV-2/genetics
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; Antibodies, Viral
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Observational Study ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 3067-3
    ISSN 1558-8238 ; 0021-9738
    ISSN (online) 1558-8238
    ISSN 0021-9738
    DOI 10.1172/JCI166032
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  2. Article ; Online: Activation of the integrated stress response confers vulnerability to mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics in melanoma.

    Vendramin, Roberto / Katopodi, Vicky / Cinque, Sonia / Konnova, Angelina / Knezevic, Zorica / Adnane, Sara / Verheyden, Yvessa / Karras, Panagiotis / Demesmaeker, Ewout / Bosisio, Francesca M / Kucera, Lukas / Rozman, Jan / Gladwyn-Ng, Ivan / Rizzotto, Lara / Dassi, Erik / Millevoi, Stefania / Bechter, Oliver / Marine, Jean-Christophe / Leucci, Eleonora

    The Journal of experimental medicine

    2021  Volume 218, Issue 9

    Abstract: The ability to adapt to environmental stress, including therapeutic insult, contributes to tumor evolution and drug resistance. In suboptimal conditions, the integrated stress response (ISR) promotes survival by dampening cytosolic translation. We show ... ...

    Abstract The ability to adapt to environmental stress, including therapeutic insult, contributes to tumor evolution and drug resistance. In suboptimal conditions, the integrated stress response (ISR) promotes survival by dampening cytosolic translation. We show that ISR-dependent survival also relies on a concomitant up-regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis, a vulnerability that can be exploited using mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics. Accordingly, such agents sensitized to MAPK inhibition, thus preventing the development of resistance in BRAFV600E melanoma models. Additionally, this treatment compromised the growth of melanomas that exhibited elevated ISR activity and resistance to both immunotherapy and targeted therapy. In keeping with this, pharmacological inactivation of ISR, or silencing of ATF4, rescued the antitumoral response to the tetracyclines. Moreover, a melanoma patient exposed to doxycycline experienced complete and long-lasting response of a treatment-resistant lesion. Our study indicates that the repurposing of mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics offers a rational salvage strategy for targeted therapy in BRAF mutant melanoma and a therapeutic option for NRAS-driven and immunotherapy-resistant tumors.
    MeSH term(s) Aged ; Animals ; Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/pharmacology ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Doxycycline/pharmacology ; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/drug effects ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Melanoma/drug therapy ; Melanoma/genetics ; Melanoma/mortality ; Melanoma/pathology ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Nude ; Mitochondrial Ribosomes/drug effects ; Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Stress, Physiological/drug effects ; Tigecycline/pharmacology ; Uveal Neoplasms/drug therapy ; Uveal Neoplasms/pathology ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays ; Mice
    Chemical Substances Antibiotics, Antineoplastic ; Protein Kinase Inhibitors ; Tigecycline (70JE2N95KR) ; Doxycycline (N12000U13O)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 218343-2
    ISSN 1540-9538 ; 0022-1007
    ISSN (online) 1540-9538
    ISSN 0022-1007
    DOI 10.1084/jem.20210571
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  3. Article: Clinical Impact of Monoclonal Antibodies in the Treatment of High-Risk Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infections: The ORCHESTRA Prospective Cohort Study.

    Savoldi, Alessia / Morra, Matteo / Castelli, Alessandro / Mirandola, Massimo / Berkell, Matilda / Smet, Mathias / Konnova, Angelina / Rossi, Elisa / Cataudella, Salvatore / De Nardo, Pasquale / Gentilotti, Elisa / Gupta, Akshita / Fasan, Daniele / Gibbin, Enrico / Cioli Puviani, Filippo / Hasenauer, Jan / Gusinow, Roy / Tami, Adriana / Kumar-Singh, Samir /
    Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / mAb Orchestra Working Group / Tacconelli, Evelina

    Biomedicines

    2022  Volume 10, Issue 9

    Abstract: The clinical impact of anti-spike monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) breakthrough infections is unclear. We present the results of an observational prospective cohort study assessing and comparing COVID-19 progression in ... ...

    Abstract The clinical impact of anti-spike monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) breakthrough infections is unclear. We present the results of an observational prospective cohort study assessing and comparing COVID-19 progression in high-risk outpatients receiving mAb according to primary or breakthrough infection. Clinical, serological and virological predictors associated with 28-day COVID-19-related hospitalization were identified using multivariate logistic regression and summarized with odds ratio (aOR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). A total of 847 COVID-19 outpatients were included: 414 with primary and 433 with breakthrough infection. Hospitalization was observed in 42/414 (10.1%) patients with primary and 8/433 (1.8%) patients with breakthrough infection (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-24
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2720867-9
    ISSN 2227-9059
    ISSN 2227-9059
    DOI 10.3390/biomedicines10092063
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  4. Article ; Online: Clinical efficacy of different monoclonal antibody regimens among non-hospitalised patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 at high risk for disease progression: a prospective cohort study.

    Savoldi, Alessia / Morra, Matteo / De Nardo, Pasquale / Cattelan, Anna Maria / Mirandola, Massimo / Manfrin, Vinicio / Scotton, Piergiorgio / Giordani, Maria Teresa / Brollo, Lucio / Panese, Sandro / Lanzafame, Massimiliano / Scroccaro, Giovanna / Berkell, Matilda / Lippi, Giuseppe / Konnova, Angelina / Smet, Mathias / Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / Kumar-Singh, Samir / Tacconelli, Evelina

    European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology

    2022  Volume 41, Issue 7, Page(s) 1065–1076

    Abstract: This study aimed to compare the clinical progression of COVID-19 in high-risk outpatients treated with the monoclonal antibodies (mAb) bamlanivimab, bamlanivimab-etesevimab and casirivimab-imdevimab. This is an observational, multi-centre, prospective ... ...

    Abstract This study aimed to compare the clinical progression of COVID-19 in high-risk outpatients treated with the monoclonal antibodies (mAb) bamlanivimab, bamlanivimab-etesevimab and casirivimab-imdevimab. This is an observational, multi-centre, prospective study conducted from 18 March to 15 July 2021 in eight Italian tertiary-care hospitals including mild-to-moderate COVID-19 outpatients receiving bamlanivimab (700 mg), bamlanivimab-etesevimab (700-1400 mg) or casirivimab-imdevimab (1200-1200 mg). All patients were at high risk of COVID-19 progression according to Italian Medicines Agency definitions. In a patient subgroup, SARS-CoV-2 variant and anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology were analysed at baseline. Factors associated with 28-day all-cause hospitalisation were identified using multivariable multilevel logistic regression (MMLR) and summarised with adjusted odds ratio (aOR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). A total of 635 outpatients received mAb: 161 (25.4%) bamlanivimab, 396 (62.4%) bamlanivimab-etesevimab and 78 (12.2%) casirivimab-imdevimab. Ninety-five (15%) patients received full or partial SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. The B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant was detected in 99% of patients. Baseline serology showed no significant differences among the three mAb regimen groups. Twenty-eight-day all-cause hospitalisation was 11.3%, with a significantly higher proportion (p 0.001) in the bamlanivimab group (18.6%), compared to the bamlanivimab-etesevimab (10.1%) and casirivimab-imdevimab (2.6%) groups. On MMLR, aORs for 28-day all-cause hospitalisation were significantly lower in patients receiving bamlanivimab-etesevimab (aOR 0.51, 95% CI 0.30-0.88 p 0.015) and casirivimab-imdevimab (aOR 0.14, 95% CI 0.03-0.61, p 0.009) compared to those receiving bamlanivimab. No patients with a history of vaccination were hospitalised. The study suggests differences in clinical outcomes among the first available mAb regimens for treating high-risk COVID-19 outpatients. Randomised trials are needed to compare efficacy of mAb combination regimens in high-risk populations and according to circulating variants.
    MeSH term(s) Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use ; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; COVID-19/drug therapy ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Disease Progression ; Humans ; Prospective Studies ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Treatment Outcome
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; imdevimab (2Z3DQD2JHM) ; bamlanivimab (45I6OFJ8QH) ; casirivimab (J0FI6WE1QN) ; etesevimab (N7Q9NLF11I)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-21
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Multicenter Study ; Observational Study
    ZDB-ID 603155-9
    ISSN 1435-4373 ; 0934-9723 ; 0722-2211
    ISSN (online) 1435-4373
    ISSN 0934-9723 ; 0722-2211
    DOI 10.1007/s10096-022-04464-x
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  5. Article ; Online: Using machine learning to predict antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in solid organ transplant recipients: the multicentre ORCHESTRA cohort.

    Giannella, Maddalena / Huth, Manuel / Righi, Elda / Hasenauer, Jan / Marconi, Lorenzo / Konnova, Angelina / Gupta, Akshita / Hotterbeekx, An / Berkell, Matilda / Palacios-Baena, Zaira R / Morelli, Maria Cristina / Tamè, Mariarosa / Busutti, Marco / Potena, Luciano / Salvaterra, Elena / Feltrin, Giuseppe / Gerosa, Gino / Furian, Lucrezia / Burra, Patrizia /
    Piano, Salvatore / Cillo, Umberto / Cananzi, Mara / Loy, Monica / Zaza, Gianluigi / Onorati, Francesco / Carraro, Amedeo / Gastaldon, Fiorella / Nordio, Maurizio / Kumar-Singh, Samir / Baño, Jesús Rodríguez / Lazzarotto, Tiziana / Viale, Pierluigi / Tacconelli, Evelina

    Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

    2023  Volume 29, Issue 8, Page(s) 1084.e1–1084.e7

    Abstract: Objectives: The study aim was to assess predictors of negative antibody response (AbR) in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients after the first booster of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.: Methods: Solid organ transplant recipients receiving SARS-CoV-2 ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: The study aim was to assess predictors of negative antibody response (AbR) in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients after the first booster of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
    Methods: Solid organ transplant recipients receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccination were prospectively enrolled (March 2021-January 2022) at six hospitals in Italy and Spain. AbR was assessed at first dose (t
    Results: Overall, 1615 SOT recipients (1072 [66.3%] males; mean age±standard deviation [SD], 57.85 ± 13.77) were enrolled, and 1211 received three vaccination doses. Negative AbR rate decreased from 93.66% (886/946) to 21.90% (202/923) from t
    Discussion: Almost a quarter of SOT recipients showed negative AbR after first booster dosage. Unfortunately, clinical information cannot efficiently predict negative AbR even with ML algorithms.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Aged ; Female ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Antibody Formation ; COVID-19/diagnosis ; COVID-19/prevention & control ; Transplant Recipients ; Vaccination ; Liver Transplantation ; Machine Learning ; Antibodies, Viral ; Organ Transplantation
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines ; Antibodies, Viral
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-06
    Publishing country England
    Document type Multicenter Study ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1328418-6
    ISSN 1469-0691 ; 1470-9465 ; 1198-743X
    ISSN (online) 1469-0691
    ISSN 1470-9465 ; 1198-743X
    DOI 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.04.027
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  6. Article: Blood Cytokine Analysis Suggests That SARS-CoV-2 Infection Results in a Sustained Tumour Promoting Environment in Cancer Patients.

    De Winter, Fien H R / Hotterbeekx, An / Huizing, Manon T / Konnova, Angelina / Fransen, Erik / Jongers, Bart's / Jairam, Ravi Kumar / Van Averbeke, Vincent / Moons, Pieter / Roelant, Ella / Le Blon, Debbie / Vanden Berghe, Wim / Janssens, Annelies / Lybaert, Willem / Croes, Lieselot / Vulsteke, Christof / Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / Goossens, Herman / Berneman, Zwi /
    Peeters, Marc / van Dam, Peter A / Kumar-Singh, Samir

    Cancers

    2021  Volume 13, Issue 22

    Abstract: Cytokines, chemokines, and (angiogenic) growth factors (CCGs) have been shown to play an intricate role in the progression of both solid and haematological malignancies. Recent studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to a worse outcome in ... ...

    Abstract Cytokines, chemokines, and (angiogenic) growth factors (CCGs) have been shown to play an intricate role in the progression of both solid and haematological malignancies. Recent studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to a worse outcome in cancer patients, especially in haematological malignancy patients. Here, we investigated how SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts the already altered CCG levels in solid or haematological malignancies, specifically, whether there is a protective effect or rather a potentially higher risk for major COVID-19 complications in cancer patients due to elevated CCGs linked to cancer progression. Serially analysing immune responses with 55 CCGs in cancer patients under active treatment with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection, we first showed that cancer patients without SARS-CoV-2 infection (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-15
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2527080-1
    ISSN 2072-6694
    ISSN 2072-6694
    DOI 10.3390/cancers13225718
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  7. Article ; Online: Host immunological responses facilitate development of SARS-CoV-2 mutations in patients receiving monoclonal antibody treatments

    Gupta, Akshita / Konnova, Angelina / Smet, Mathias / Berkell, Matilda / Savoldi, Alessia / Morra, Matteo / Van averbeke, Vincent / De Winter, Fien / Peserico, Denise / Danese, Elisa / Hotterbeekx, An / Righi, Elda / mAb ORCHESTRA working group / De Nardo, Pasquale / Tacconelli, Evelina / Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / Kumar-Singh, Samir

    medRxiv

    Abstract: The role of host immunity in emergence of evasive SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations under therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) pressure remains to be explored. Here, we show that patients treated with various anti-SARS-CoV-2 mAb regimens develop evasive Spike ... ...

    Abstract The role of host immunity in emergence of evasive SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations under therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) pressure remains to be explored. Here, we show that patients treated with various anti-SARS-CoV-2 mAb regimens develop evasive Spike mutations with remarkable speed and high specificity to the targeted mAb-binding sites. Mutations develop more frequently in immunocompromised patients and strongly correlate not only with neutralizing capacity of the therapeutic mAbs, but also with an anti-inflammatory and healing-promoting host milieu. We further built and deploy machine-learning models on host-derived biomarkers that identify patients at high risk of developing escape mutations against therapeutic mAbs with high accuracy. While our data suggest that host-driven responses are essential for development of mutant SARS-CoV-2, the mechanisms and models described here could also be utilized to reduce risk of treatment failure in high-risk populations receiving anti-SARS-CoV-2 mAb treatments and improve mitigation strategies for possible dissemination of escape SARS-CoV-2 mutants.
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-20
    Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1101/2022.09.20.22280135
    Database COVID19

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  8. Article ; Online: Blood cytokine analysis suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection results in a sustained tumour promoting environment in cancer patients

    De Winter, Fien HR / Hotterbeekx, An / Huizing, Manon / Konnova, Angelina / Fransen, Erik / 's Jongers, Bart / Jairam, Ravi Kumar / Van averbeke, Vincent / Moons, Pieter / Roelant, Ella / Le Blon, Debbie / Vanden Berghe, Wim / Janssens, Annelies / Lybaert, Willem / Croes, Lieselot / Vulsteke, Christof / Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / Goossens, Herman / Berneman, Zwi /
    Peeters, Marc / van Dam, Peter / Kumar-Singh, Samir

    medRxiv

    Abstract: Cytokines, chemokines and (angiogenic) growth factors (CCGs) have been shown to play an intricate role in the progression of both solid and haematological malignancies. Recent studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to worse outcome in cancer ... ...

    Abstract Cytokines, chemokines and (angiogenic) growth factors (CCGs) have been shown to play an intricate role in the progression of both solid and haematological malignancies. Recent studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to worse outcome in cancer patients, especially in haematological malignancy patients. Here, we investigated how SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts the already altered CCG levels in solid or haematological malignancies, specifically whether there is a protective effect or rather a potentially higher risk for major COVID-19 complications in cancer patients due to elevated CCGs linked to cancer progression. Serially analysing immune responses with 55 CCGs in cancer patients under active treatment with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection, we first showed that cancer patients without SARS-CoV-2 infection (n=54) demonstrate elevated levels of 35 CCGs compared to the non-cancer, non-infected control group of health care workers (n=42). Of the 35 CCGs, 19 were common to both solid and haematological malignancy groups and comprised previously described cytokines such as IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1Ra, IL-17A, and VEGF, but also several less well described cytokines/chemokines such as Fractalkine, Tie-2, and T cell chemokine CTACK. Importantly, we show here that 7 CCGs are significantly altered in SARS-CoV-2 exposed cancer patients (n=52). Of these TNF-α, IFN-β, TSLP and sVCAM-1, identified to be elevated in haematological cancers, are also known tumour-promoting factors. Longitudinal analysis conducted over 3 months showed persistence of several tumour-promoting CCGs in SARS-CoV-2 exposed cancer patients. These data urge for increased vigilance for haematological malignancy patients as a part of long COVID follow-up.
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-29
    Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1101/2021.10.29.21265511
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  9. Article ; Online: Predictive model for BNT162b2 vaccine response in cancer patients based on cytokines and growth factors

    Konnova, Angelina / De Winter, Fien HR / Gupta, Akshita / Verbruggen, Lise / Hotterbeekx, An / Berkell, Matilda / Teuwen, Laure-Anne / Vanhoutte, Greetje / Peeters, Bart / Raats, Silke / Van der Massen, Isolde / De Keersmaecker, Sven / Debie, Yana / Huizing, Manon / Pannus, Pieter / Neven, Kristof Y / Ariën, Kevin K / Martens, Geert A / Van Den Bulcke, Marc /
    Roelant, Ella / Desombere, Isabelle / Anguille, Sébastien / Berneman, Zwi / Goossens, Maria E / Goossens, Herman / Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi / Taconelli, Evelina / Vandamme, Timon / Peeters, Marc / van Dam, Peter / Kumar-Singh, Samir

    medRxiv

    Abstract: Background: Patients with cancer, especially haematological cancer, are at increased risk for breakthrough COVID-19 infection. However, so far, a predictive biomarker that can assess compromised vaccine-induced anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunity in cancer patients ...

    Abstract Background: Patients with cancer, especially haematological cancer, are at increased risk for breakthrough COVID-19 infection. However, so far, a predictive biomarker that can assess compromised vaccine-induced anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunity in cancer patients has not been proposed. Methods: Here, we employed machine learning approaches to identify a biomarker signature based on blood cytokine and growth factors linked to vaccine response from 199 cancer patients receiving BNT162b2 vaccine. Results: We show that C-reactive protein (CRP; general marker of inflammation), interleukin (IL)-15 (a pro-inflammatory cytokine), IL-18 (interferon-gamma inducing factor), and placental growth factor (an angiogenic cytokine) can correctly classify patients with a diminished vaccine response assessed at day 49 with >80% accuracy. Amongst these, CRP showed the highest predictive value for poor response to vaccine administration. Importantly, this unique signature of vaccine response was present at different studied timepoints both before and after vaccination and was not majorly affected by different anti-cancer treatments. Conclusion: While we propose a blood-based signature of cytokines and growth factors that can be employed in identifying cancer patients at continued risk of COVID-19, our data also importantly suggest that such a signature could reflect the inherent make-up of some cancer patients who are also refractive to immunotherapy.
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-27
    Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1101/2022.09.25.22280267
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