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. 2023 Jan 9;42(1):111995. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.111995

Table 1.

Immunogenic SARS-CoV-2 peptides (n = 29) identified by multimer staining in samples from convalescents and pre-pandemic controls sorted from highest to lowest immunoprevalence in convalescents expressing the relevant HLA allele

Peptide Sequence HLA allele Protein BA_rank (%) Immunoprevalence (95% CI) MS Functional validation Homology HCoV (%) Not in the IEDB
convalescents pre-pandemic OC43 NL63 HKU1 229E
N105–113 SPRWYFYYL B07:02 nucleocapsid 0.02 100 (89–100) 57 (18–90) x 89 56 89 67
O3a207–215 FTSDYYQLY A01:01 ORF3a 0.01 100 (83–100) 0 x x 0 22 0 0
O3a206–215 YFTSDYYQLY A01:01 ORF3a 0.02 100 (83–100) 0 x 0 0 0 0
S269–277 YLQPRTFLL A02:01 spike 0.02 98 (90–100) 11 (0–48) x x 44 44 44 33
O3a139–147 LLYDANYFL A02:01 ORF3a 0.01 91 (79–97) 0 x 0 0 0 0
N366–374 KTFPPTEPK A03:01 nucleocapsid 0.05 90 (73–98) 0 x x 33 44 44 0
O3a203–212 LHSYFTSDYY A01:01 ORF3a 0.10 86 (57–98) 0 0 30 0 0 x
S378–387 KCYGVSPTKL A03:01 spike 7.90 83 (64–94) 11 (0–48) x x 40 30 0 30 x
N257–265 KPRQKRTAT B07:02 nucleocapsid 0.05 70 (46–88) 29 (4–71) 67 67 78 56
O3a72–80 ALSKGVHFV A02:01 ORF3a 0.11 53 (39–67) 0 x x 0 44 0 0
S89–97 GVYFASTEK A03:01 spike 0.05 45 (26–64) 0 x 33 44 33 33
S865–874 LTDEMIAQYT A01:01 spike 0.12 45 (23–68) 0 x 40 30 40 30 x
N77–87 NSSPDDQIGYY A01:01 nucleocapsid 0.07 36 (13–65) 0 x x 0 45 27 27
N222–230 LLLDRLNQL A02:01 nucleocapsid 0.14 33 (17–53) 0 x x 0 0 33 33
O3a35–43 IPIQASLPF B07:02 ORF3a 0.09 30 (12–54) 0 0 0 0 0
S1192–1200 NLNESLIDL A02:01 spike 1.01 30 (15–49) 44 (14–79) x 56 33 56 56
S864–873 LLTDEMIAQY A01:01 spike 0.01 29 (8–58) 0 40 0 30 30
N66–74 FPRGQGVPI B07:02 nucleocapsid 0.01 25 (9–49) 0 x 67 44 89 44
O3a64–72 TLKKRWQLA B08:01 ORF3a 0.10 21 (5–51) 0 0 33 0 0 x
N104–112 LSPRWYFYY A01:01 nucleocapsid 0.08 21 (5–51) 11 (0–48) 89 89 89 67 x
S109–117 TLDSKTQSL A02:01 spike 1.55 20 (8–39) 11 (0–48) 44 56 44 44
N366–375 KTFPPTEPKK A03:01 nucleocapsid 0.06 17 (4–41) 11 (0–48) 0 0 40 0
N222–230 LLLDRLNQL B08:01 nucleocapsid 0.19 14 (2–43) 29 (4–71) 0 0 33 33 x
S1000–1008 RLQSLQTYV A02:01 spike 0.16 13 (4–31) 0 x 56 44 56 44
S787–795 QIYKTPPIK A03:01 spike 0.14 11 (1–35) 11 (0–48) x 22 22 22 44
S367–378 VLYNSASFSTFK A03:01 spike 0.01 11 (1–35) 0 x 0 25 0 33 x
O3a204–212 HSYFTSDYY A01:01 ORF3a 0.06 7 (0–34) 0 x 0 0 0 0 x
M65–73 FVLAAVYRI A02:01 membrane 0.11 3 (0–17) 0 22 0 0 22
M50–59 LIFLWLLWPV A02:01 membrane 0.39 3 (0–17) 0 60 50 60 60 x

CI, confidence interval; BA, binding affinity. Functional validation, T cell lines functionally tested; Homology, % sequence identity with human common cold coronaviruses (HCoV); Not in the IEDB, not previously reported as immunogenic in the IEDB.