Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
mBio. 2024 Jan 16;15(1):e0247723. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02477-23. Epub 2023 Dec 6.
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a significant public health concern for the global population; the development and characterization of therapeutics, especially ones that are broadly effective, will continue to be essential as severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants emerge. Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies remain an effective therapeutic strategy to prevent virus infection and spread so long as they recognize and interact with circulating variants. The epitope and binding specificity of a neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 Spike receptor-binding domain antibody clone against many SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern were characterized by generating antibody-resistant virions coupled with cryo-EM structural analysis and VSV-spike neutralization studies. This workflow can serve to predict the efficacy of antibody therapeutics against emerging variants and inform the design of therapeutics and vaccines.
新冠疫情仍然是全球人口关注的重大公共卫生问题;随着严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 型(SARS-CoV-2)变异株的出现,开发和鉴定治疗方法,特别是广谱有效的治疗方法,仍将是至关重要的。中和单克隆抗体仍然是预防病毒感染和传播的有效治疗策略,只要它们能够识别和与流行的变异株相互作用。通过产生对多种关注的 SARS-CoV-2 变体具有抗性的抗体病毒颗粒,并结合冷冻电镜结构分析和 VSV 刺突中和研究,对一种中和 SARS-CoV-2 刺突受体结合域抗体克隆针对许多 SARS-CoV-2 变体的表位和结合特异性进行了表征。该工作流程可用于预测针对新出现的变异株的抗体治疗药物的疗效,并为治疗药物和疫苗的设计提供信息。