The CoVID-19 pandemic that started in late 2019 is sweeping through the world,posing historic challenges to global health,and disrupting social and economic lives.Previous and recent studies indicate that monoclonal a...The CoVID-19 pandemic that started in late 2019 is sweeping through the world,posing historic challenges to global health,and disrupting social and economic lives.Previous and recent studies indicate that monoclonal antibodies can be efficacious in preventing and treating SARSCoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infections.Using a phage display platform,we have identified dozens of monoclonal antibodies that bind to diverse epitope groups on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.Many of them bound to the receptor binding domain(RBD)and inhibited ACE2-RBD interaction.展开更多
New variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) appear rapidly every few months.They have showed powerful adaptive ability to circumvent the immune system. To further understand SARS-CoV-2...New variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) appear rapidly every few months.They have showed powerful adaptive ability to circumvent the immune system. To further understand SARS-CoV-2’s adaptability so as to seek for strategies to mitigate the emergence of new variants, herein we investigated the viral adaptation in the presence of broadly neutralizing antibodies and their combinations. First, we selected four broadly neutralizing antibodies, including pan-sarbecovirus and pan-betacoronavirus neutralizing antibodies that recognize distinct conserved regions on receptor-binding domain(RBD) or conserved stem-helix region on S2 subunit.Through binding competition analysis, we demonstrated that they were capable of simultaneously binding.Thereafter, a replication-competent vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was employed to study the viral adaptation. Twenty consecutive passages of the virus under the selective pressure of individual antibodies or their combinations were performed. It was found that it was not hard for the virus to adapt to broadly neutralizing antibodies, even for pan-sarbecovirus and pan-betacoronavirus antibodies. The virus was more and more difficult to escape the combinations of two/three/four antibodies. In addition, mutations in the viral population revealed by high-throughput sequencing showed that under the selective pressure of three/four combinational antibodies, viral mutations were not prone to present in the highly conserved region across betacoronaviruses(stem-helix region), while this was not true under the selective pressure of single/two antibodies.Importantly, combining neutralizing antibodies targeting RBD conserved regions and stem helix synergistically prevented the emergence of escape mutations. These studies will guide future vaccine and therapeutic development efforts and provide a rationale for the design of RBD-stem helix tandem vaccine, which may help to impede the generation of novel variants.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81773621,82073751 to JZ)the National Science and Technology Major Project"Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program"of China(No.2019ZX09732001-019 to JZ)+1 种基金the Key R&D Supporting Program(Special support for developing medicine for infectious diseases)from the Administration of Chinese and Singapore Tianjin Eco-city to Jecho Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.Co.,Zhejiang University special CoVID-19 grant 2020XGZX099Shanghai Jiao Tong University"Crossing Medical and Engineering"grant 20X190020003 to JZ.
文摘The CoVID-19 pandemic that started in late 2019 is sweeping through the world,posing historic challenges to global health,and disrupting social and economic lives.Previous and recent studies indicate that monoclonal antibodies can be efficacious in preventing and treating SARSCoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infections.Using a phage display platform,we have identified dozens of monoclonal antibodies that bind to diverse epitope groups on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.Many of them bound to the receptor binding domain(RBD)and inhibited ACE2-RBD interaction.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81773621,82073751 to J.Z.)the National Science and Technology Major Project“Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program”of China(No.2019ZX09732001-019 to J.Z.)+1 种基金the Key R&D Supporting Program(Special Support for Developing Medicine for Infectious Diseases)from the Administration of Chinese and Singapore Tianjin Eco-city to Jecho Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.Co.the Shanghai Jiao Tong University“Crossing Medical and Engineering”grant(20X190020003 to J.Z.)
文摘New variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) appear rapidly every few months.They have showed powerful adaptive ability to circumvent the immune system. To further understand SARS-CoV-2’s adaptability so as to seek for strategies to mitigate the emergence of new variants, herein we investigated the viral adaptation in the presence of broadly neutralizing antibodies and their combinations. First, we selected four broadly neutralizing antibodies, including pan-sarbecovirus and pan-betacoronavirus neutralizing antibodies that recognize distinct conserved regions on receptor-binding domain(RBD) or conserved stem-helix region on S2 subunit.Through binding competition analysis, we demonstrated that they were capable of simultaneously binding.Thereafter, a replication-competent vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was employed to study the viral adaptation. Twenty consecutive passages of the virus under the selective pressure of individual antibodies or their combinations were performed. It was found that it was not hard for the virus to adapt to broadly neutralizing antibodies, even for pan-sarbecovirus and pan-betacoronavirus antibodies. The virus was more and more difficult to escape the combinations of two/three/four antibodies. In addition, mutations in the viral population revealed by high-throughput sequencing showed that under the selective pressure of three/four combinational antibodies, viral mutations were not prone to present in the highly conserved region across betacoronaviruses(stem-helix region), while this was not true under the selective pressure of single/two antibodies.Importantly, combining neutralizing antibodies targeting RBD conserved regions and stem helix synergistically prevented the emergence of escape mutations. These studies will guide future vaccine and therapeutic development efforts and provide a rationale for the design of RBD-stem helix tandem vaccine, which may help to impede the generation of novel variants.