Pan Lin, Kaku Yu, Tolentino Jarel Elgin, Kosugi Yusuke, Sato Kei
Division of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.
Front Microbiol. 2025 Jul 16;16:1593095. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1593095. eCollection 2025.
In the 21st century, three severe human coronavirus infections have occurred. One of them is the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a merbecovirus belonging to the family , is a human pathogenic coronavirus first detected in 2012. Several monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been developed for both therapeutics and prevention of MERS-CoV infection. However, the extent to which these anti-MERS-CoV antibodies neutralize other merbecoviruses remains unclear. Here, we evaluated the cross-neutralization ability of ten anti-MERS-CoV mAbs against the pseudoviruses with the spike proteins of five merbecoviruses known to bind to dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4): three clades of MERS-CoV, a bat-derived merbecovirus (BtCoV-422) and a pangolin-derived merbecovirus (MjHKU4r-CoV). We show that all eight mAbs targeting the receptor-binding domain (RBD) potently neutralize all MERS-CoV clades, but not BtCoV-422 and MjHKU4r-CoV. Of these, the neutralization potency of one mAb, m336, against the MERS-CoV clade B declined due to the V530L substitution detected in certain isolates during the 2015 outbreak in South Korea. On the other hand, although BtCoV-422 was neutralized by the two non-RBD mAbs, 7D10 (targeting the N-terminal domain) and G4 (targeting the S2 subunit), MjHKU4r-CoV found to be resistant. Our findings suggest that combining multiple mAbs targeting different epitopes could be a promising strategy for prevention of future outbreaks caused by novel pathogenic merbecoviruses.
在21世纪,发生了三起严重的人类冠状病毒感染事件。其中之一是中东呼吸综合征冠状病毒(MERS-CoV),它是一种属于 科的美贝病毒,是2012年首次发现的人类致病性冠状病毒。已经开发了几种单克隆抗体(mAb)用于治疗和预防MERS-CoV感染。然而,这些抗MERS-CoV抗体对其他美贝病毒的中和程度仍不清楚。在这里,我们评估了十种抗MERS-CoV单克隆抗体对五种已知与二肽基肽酶4(DPP4)结合的美贝病毒刺突蛋白假病毒的交叉中和能力:MERS-CoV的三个分支、一种蝙蝠来源的美贝病毒(BtCoV-422)和一种穿山甲来源的美贝病毒(MjHKU4r-CoV)。我们发现,所有八种靶向受体结合域(RBD)的单克隆抗体都能有效中和所有MERS-CoV分支,但不能中和BtCoV-422和MjHKU4r-CoV。其中,一种单克隆抗体m336对MERS-CoV B分支的中和效力因在2015年韩国疫情期间某些分离株中检测到的V530L替换而下降。另一方面,虽然BtCoV-422被两种非RBD单克隆抗体7D10(靶向N端结构域)和G4(靶向S2亚基)中和,但MjHKU4r-CoV具有抗性。我们的研究结果表明,联合使用多种靶向不同表位的单克隆抗体可能是预防未来由新型致病性美贝病毒引起的疫情爆发的一种有前景的策略。
Front Microbiol. 2025-7-16
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022-6-17
Pathogens. 2025-6-19
Emerg Infect Dis. 2025-1
Lancet Infect Dis. 2024-9
Sci Transl Med. 2023-9-27