Effector and Regulatory T Cell Receptor Repertoire Analyses in Patients Affected by COVID-19

COVID-19 Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Effector and Regulatory T Cell Receptor Repertoire Analyses in Patients Affected by COVID-19

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04379466
• Other study ID #: APHP200544
• Secondary ID: 2020-A01245-34
• Status: Completed
• Start date: May 11, 2020
• Est. completion date: January 27, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: June 2022
• Source: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The specificity of the adaptive immune response (AIR), and its balance between effector T cells (Teffs) and regulatory T cells (Tregs), is most likely a major determinant of the outcome of a Covid-19 infection.

We aim to analyze (i) the cellular components and (ii) the specificity of the AIR to COVID-19 in 60 patients with moderate and severe form of the disease. This should have important implications for (i) understanding the pathophysiology of the disease, (ii) discovering biomarkers of severity and (iii) designing treatments and vaccines.

Description:

The quality of the adaptive immune response (AIR) to COVID-19 probably determines the course of the disease. Therefore, a comprehensive knowledge of the immune response to COVID-19 is required to better anticipate its outcome and identify vaccine targets. In particular, the quality of an AIR can be investigated by immunophenotyping (enumerating immune cells and assessing their fitness) and by analyzing the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire.

The cellular components of the AIR will be analyzed by a deep immunophenotyping generating >800 measures assessing immune cells quantitatively and qualitatively (Pitoiset et al.,2018). Combined with supervised and unsupervised analyses, it has the power to detect subtle/hidden abnormalities.

The specificity will be analyzed by studying the global T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire of separated Tregs and Teffs from peripheral blood, as well as by single cell sequencing of cells from bronchoalveolar lavages.

These combined approaches should uncover parameters/abnormalities of the AIR linked to the infection severity and outcome, and lead to a better understanding of the nature of the Tregs and Teffs repertoires against COVID-19. This will have important implications for (i) understanding the pathophysiology of the disease, (ii) discovering biomarkers of severity and (iii) designing treatments and vaccines.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 58
• Est. completion date: January 27, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: January 27, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria :

• Age=18 and =75 years

• Presenting a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 disease in accordance with WHO diagnostic criteria;

• Good venous capital ;

• Affiliation to a social security system;

• Having declared his/her non-opposition to participation in research (for patients hospitalized in intensive care units who are not able to communicate, the non-opposition of a trusted person will be sought.)

Exclusion criteria :

• Still under the exclusion period from another biomedical study

• Psychiatric illness or addiction that could interfere with the ability to comply with the requirements of the protocol or to give consent to participate in the study;

• Patient benefiting from a legal protection measure

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID-19

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Hôpital Pitie Salpétrère	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	A list of COVID-19 specific TCR sequences		at day1
Secondary	One or more measures from peripheral blood immunophenotyping that is/are associated with COVID-19 outcome		at day1
Secondary	Group of COVID-19 specific TCR sequences that is associated with COVID-19 outcome		at day1