Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans

J Mateus, A Grifoni, A Tarke, J Sidney, SI Ramirez… - Science, 2020 - science.org
people. However, the source of those T cells has been speculative. Using human blood
samples derived before the SARS-CoV-2 virus … cell epitopes across the SARS-CoV-2 genome to …

Pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2: the knowns and unknowns

A Sette, S Crotty - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
… against SARS-CoV-2 was observed in unexposed people; … characterization of SARS-CoV-2
T cell responses in humans, … unexposed donors display significant reactivity to SARS-CoV

[HTML][HTML] Targets of T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in humans with COVID-19 disease and unexposed individuals

A Grifoni, D Weiskopf, SI Ramirez, J Mateus, JM Dan… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
… Thus, there is urgent need to understand the magnitude and composition of the human CD4
+ and CD8 + T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2. If natural infection with SARS-CoV-2 elicits …

Low-avidity CD4+ T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed individuals and humans with severe COVID-19

P Bacher, E Rosati, D Esser, GR Martini, C Saggau… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
… CD4 + T cells reactive against SARS-CoV-2 can be found in unexposed individuals, and …
in response to common cold coronavirus (CCCoV) infection. Here, we utilized SARS-CoV-2-…

SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cells in unexposed humans: presence of cross-reactive memory cells does not equal protective immunity

RD de Vries - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2020 - nature.com
… of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the newly-emerged coronavirus
SARS-CoV-… Many studies are dissecting the human immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and …

[HTML][HTML] Intrafamilial exposure to SARS-CoV-2 associated with cellular immune response without seroconversion, France

F Gallais, A Velay, C Nazon, MJ Wendling… - Emerging infectious …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… against SARS-CoV-2 and human coronavirus (HCoV… unexposed HD who donated their
blood during the pandemic as controls, so we cannot exclude a potential infection by SARS-CoV-…

T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans: A systematic review

M Shrotri, MCI van Schalkwyk, N Post, D Eddy… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… in reactive unexposed controls relative to SARS-CoV-2 convalescents, with low homology
between COVID-19 convalescent T cell epitopes and known epitopes from endemic human

SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells in unexposed adults display broad trafficking potential and cross-react with commensal antigens

L Bartolo, S Afroz, YG Pan, R Xu, L Williams… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
… the complexity of precursor T cell repertoire and implicate noninfectious exposures to
common microbes as a key factor that shapes human preexisting immunity to SARS-CoV-2. …

Cross-reactive immune responses toward the common cold human coronaviruses and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): mini-review …

RE Sealy, JL Hurwitz - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
… In SARS-CoV-2-unexposed humans, cross-reactive serum antibodies were identified toward
SARS-CoV-2-unexposed humans rarely exhibited antibody responses to the SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-existing T cell-mediated cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 cannot solely be explained by prior exposure to endemic human coronaviruses

CCS Tan, CJ Owen, CYL Tham, A Bertoletti… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… To identify possible sources for the T-cell cross-reactivity observed in people unexposed to
SARS-CoV-2, we also performed a protein BLAST search for all 177 experimentally validated …