人源化 COVID-19 诱饵抗体能有效阻断病毒进入并预防 SARS-CoV-2 感染。
Humanized COVID-19 decoy antibody effectively blocks viral entry and prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection.
机构信息
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
出版信息
EMBO Mol Med. 2021 Jan 11;13(1):e12828. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202012828. Epub 2020 Nov 30.
To circumvent the devastating pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, a humanized decoy antibody (ACE2-Fc fusion protein) was designed to target the interaction between viral spike protein and its cellular receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). First, we demonstrated that ACE2-Fc could specifically abrogate virus replication by blocking the entry of SARS-CoV-2 spike-expressing pseudotyped virus into both ACE2-expressing lung cells and lung organoids. The impairment of viral entry was not affected by virus variants, since efficient inhibition was also observed in six SARS-CoV-2 clinical strains, including the D614G variants which have been shown to exhibit increased infectivity. The preservation of peptidase activity also enables ACE2-Fc to reduce the angiotensin II-mediated cytokine cascade. Furthermore, this Fc domain of ACE2-Fc was shown to activate NK cell degranulation after co-incubation with Spike-expressing H1975 cells. These promising characteristics potentiate the therapeutic prospects of ACE2-Fc as an effective treatment for COVID-19.
为了规避由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 感染引起的破坏性大流行,设计了一种人源化诱饵抗体(ACE2-Fc 融合蛋白),以靶向病毒刺突蛋白与其细胞受体血管紧张素转化酶 2 (ACE2) 之间的相互作用。首先,我们证明 ACE2-Fc 可以通过阻断 SARS-CoV-2 刺突表达假型病毒进入表达 ACE2 的肺细胞和肺类器官,特异性地阻断病毒复制。病毒进入的损伤不受病毒变异体的影响,因为在六种 SARS-CoV-2 临床株中也观察到了有效的抑制作用,包括已显示出增加感染性的 D614G 变异体。肽酶活性的保留还使 ACE2-Fc 能够减少血管紧张素 II 介导的细胞因子级联反应。此外,ACE2-Fc 的这种 Fc 结构域在与表达 Spike 的 H1975 细胞共孵育后被证明可以激活 NK 细胞脱颗粒。这些有希望的特性增强了 ACE2-Fc 作为 COVID-19 有效治疗药物的治疗前景。