๐ Characterization of novel monoclonal antibodies against MERS-coronavirus spike protein
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes severe pulmonary infection, with โผ35 % mortality. Spike glycoprotein (S) of MERS-CoV is a key target for vaccines and therapeutics because S mediates viral entry and membrane-fusion to host cells. Here, four different S subunit proteins, receptor-binding domain (RBD; 358โ606 aa), S1 (1โ751 aa), S2 (752โ1296 aa), and SฮTM (1โ1296 aa), were generated using the baculoviral system and immunized in mice to develop neutralizing antibodies. We developed 77 hybridomas and selected five neutralizing mAbs by immunization with SฮTM against MERS-CoV EMC/2012 strain S-pseudotyped lentivirus. However, all five monoclonal antibodies (mAb) did not neutralize the pseudotyped V534A mutation. Additionally, one mAb RBD-14F8 did not show neutralizing activity against pseudoviruses with amino acid substitution of L506 F or D509 G (England1 strain, EMC/2012 L506 F, and EMC/2012 D509 G), and RBD-43E4 mAb could not neutralize the pseudotyped I529 T mutation, while three other neutralizing mAbs showed broad neutralizing activity. This implies that the mutation in residue 506โ509, 529, and 534 of S is critical to generate neutralization escape variants of MERS-CoV. Interestingly, all five neutralizing mAbs have binding affinity to RBD, although most mAbs generated by RBD did not have neutralizing activity. Additionally, chimeric antibodies of RBD-14F8 and RBD-43E4 with human Fc and light chain showed neutralizing effect against wild type MERS-CoV KOR/KNIH/002, similar to the original mouse mAbs. Thus, our mAbs can be utilized for the identification of specific mutations of MERS-CoV.
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๐ monoclonal antibodies (131)
๐ neutralizing antibodies (122)
๐ receptor-binding domain (99)
๐ host cell (262)
๐ amino acid (454)
๐ wild type (34)
๐ viral entry (91)
author
๐ค Goo, Junghyun
๐ค Jeong, Yuji
๐ค Park, Young Shin
๐ค Yang, Eunji
๐ค Jung, Dae Im
๐ค Rho, Semi
๐ค Park, Uni
๐ค Sung, Hyeyeong
๐ค Park, Pil Gu
๐ค Choi, Jung ah
๐ค Seo, Sang Hwan
๐ค Cho, Nam Hyuck
๐ค Lee, Hyeja
๐ค Lee, Jae Myun
๐ค Kim, Jae Ouk
๐ค Song, Manki
year
โฐ 2020
journal
๐ Virus Research
issn
๐ 18727492 01681702
volume
278
number
page
citedbycount
1
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