Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Nat Commun. 2018 Sep 26;9(1):3934. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06113-4.
The severity of the 2014-2016 ebolavirus outbreak in West Africa expedited clinical development of therapeutics and vaccines though the countermeasures on hand were largely monospecific and lacked efficacy against other ebolavirus species that previously emerged. Recent studies indicate that ebolavirus glycoprotein (GP) fusion loops are targets for cross-protective antibodies. Here we report the 3.72 Å resolution crystal structure of one such cross-protective antibody, CA45, bound to the ectodomain of Ebola virus (EBOV) GP. The CA45 epitope spans multiple faces of the fusion loop stem, across both GP1 and GP2 subunits, with ~68% of residues identical across > 99.5% of known ebolavirus isolates. Extensive antibody interactions within a pan-ebolavirus small-molecule inhibitor binding cavity on GP define this cavity as a novel site of immune vulnerability. The structure elucidates broad ebolavirus neutralization through a highly conserved epitope on GP and further enables rational design and development of broadly protective vaccines and therapeutics.
2014-2016 年西非埃博拉病毒疫情的严重程度加速了治疗方法和疫苗的临床开发,尽管现有的对策在很大程度上是单特异性的,并且对以前出现的其他埃博拉病毒物种缺乏疗效。最近的研究表明,埃博拉病毒糖蛋白 (GP) 融合环是交叉保护抗体的靶标。在这里,我们报告了一种这样的交叉保护抗体 CA45 与埃博拉病毒 (EBOV) GP 外域结合的 3.72 Å 分辨率晶体结构。CA45 表位跨越融合环茎的多个面,跨越 GP1 和 GP2 亚基,在 >99.5%的已知埃博拉病毒分离株中,约 68%的残基是相同的。广泛的抗体相互作用在 GP 上的 pan-ebolavirus 小分子抑制剂结合腔内定义了这个腔作为免疫脆弱性的一个新位点。该结构通过 GP 上高度保守的表位阐明了广泛的埃博拉病毒中和作用,并进一步支持了广泛保护性疫苗和治疗药物的合理设计和开发。
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