Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Curr Opin Immunol. 2018 Aug;53:196-202. doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2018.05.001. Epub 2018 Jun 22.
Filoviruses, including ebolaviruses and marburgviruses, are the causative agents of highly lethal disease outbreaks. The 2013-2016 Ebola virus outbreak was responsible for >28000 infections and >11000 deaths. Although there are currently no licensed vaccines or therapeutics for any filovirus-induced disease, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are among the most promising options for therapeutic development. Hundreds of mAbs have been isolated from human survivors of filovirus infections that target the viral spike glycoprotein (GP). The binding, neutralization, and cross-reactivity of many of these mAbs has been determined. Several mAbs have been characterized structurally, and this information has been crucial for strategizing therapeutic and vaccine design. Here we present an overview of the structural features of the neutralizing/protective epitopes on filovirus glycoproteins.
丝状病毒,包括埃博拉病毒和马尔堡病毒,是引起高度致命疾病爆发的病原体。2013-2016 年埃博拉病毒爆发导致超过 28000 例感染和超过 11000 人死亡。尽管目前尚无针对任何丝状病毒引起的疾病的许可疫苗或治疗方法,但单克隆抗体 (mAb) 是治疗开发最有前途的选择之一。已经从丝状病毒感染的人类幸存者中分离出数百种针对病毒刺突糖蛋白 (GP) 的 mAb。已经确定了其中许多 mAb 的结合、中和和交叉反应性。已经对几种 mAb 进行了结构表征,这些信息对于制定治疗和疫苗设计策略至关重要。在这里,我们介绍了丝状病毒糖蛋白上中和/保护性表位的结构特征概述。