Dromedary camel nanobodies broadly neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants
| Autor: | Jessica Hong, Hyung Joon Kwon, Raul Cachau, Catherine Z. Chen, Kevin John Butay, Zhijian Duan, Dan Li, Hua Ren, Tianyuzhou Liang, Jianghai Zhu, Venkata P. Dandey, Negin P. Martin, Dominic Esposito, Uriel Ortega-Rodriguez, Miao Xu, Mario J. Borgnia, Hang Xie, Mitchell Ho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | bioRxiv article-version (status) pre article-version (number) 1 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.2201433119 |
| Popis: | With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants, there is urgent need to develop broadly neutralizing antibodies. Here, we isolate two VHH nanobodies (7A3 and 8A2) from dromedary camels by phage display, which have high affinity for the receptor-binding domain (RBD) and broad neutralization activities against SARS-CoV-2 and its emerging variants. Cryo-EM complex structures reveal that 8A2 binds the RBD in its up mode and 7A3 inhibits receptor binding by uniquely targeting a highly conserved and deeply buried site in the spike regardless of the RBD conformational state. 7A3 at a dose of ≥5 mg/kg efficiently protects K18-hACE2 transgenic mice from the lethal challenge of B.1.351 or B.1.617.2, suggesting that the nanobody has promising therapeutic potentials to curb the COVID-19 surge with emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. One-Sentence Summary: Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) VHH phage libraries were built for isolation of the nanobodies that broadly neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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