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ArticleVaccines2019

Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies Reduce Human Cytomegalovirus Infection and Spread in Developing Placentas.

Takako Tabata, Matthew Petitt, June Fang-Hoover, Daniel C Freed, Fengsheng Li, Zhiqiang An, Dai Wang, Tong-Ming Fu, Lenore Pereira

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Article in Vaccines, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Takako TabataDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. takako.tabata@ucsf.edu.
Matthew PetittDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. petitt@mac.com.
June Fang-HooverDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. hooverc109@aol.com.
Daniel C FreedMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. dan_freed@merck.com.
Fengsheng LiMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. fengsheng_li@merck.com.
Zhiqiang AnTexas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. zhiqiang.an@uth.tmc.edu.
Dai WangMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. dai_wang@merck.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5666-8622
Tong-Ming FuMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. tong-ming.fu@uth.tmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1420-2271
Lenore PereiraDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. lenore.pereira@ucsf.edu.
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USBrown Foundation · US

Funding

Fetal HCMV Infection: Role of the Human PlacentaR01AI046657 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PEREIRA, LENORE PALMA · 2000 to 2017
$5.9M
The role of CEACAM1 in CMV pathogenesis in the human placentaR21HD061890 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI TABATA, TAKAKO · 2011 to 2012
$415k
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R21HD061890Merck Sharp and Dohme NANational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases RO1AI046657, R56AI101130, and R21AI129508University of California, San Francisco California Preterm Birth Initiative NAWelch Foundation AU-0042-20030616
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Congenital human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is a leading cause of birth defects worldwide, yet the most effective strategies for preventing virus transmission during pregnancy are unknown. We measured the efficacy of human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to HCMV attachment/entry factors glycoprotein B (gB) and the pentameric complex, gH/gL-pUL128-131, in preventing infection and spread of a clinical strain in primary placental cells and explants of developing anchoring villi. A total of 109 explants from five first-trimester placentas were cultured, and infection was analyzed in over 400 cell columns containing ~120,000 cytotrophoblasts (CTBs). mAbs to gB and gH/gL, 3-25 and 3-16, respectively, neutralized infection in stromal fibroblasts and trophoblast progenitor cells. mAbs to pUL128-131 of the pentameric complex, 1-103 and 2-18, neutralized infection of amniotic epithelial cells better than mAbs 3-25 and 3-16 and hyperimmune globulin. Select mAbs neutralized infection of cell column CTBs, with mAb 2-18 most effective, followed by mAb 3-25. Treatment of anchoring villi with mAbs postinfection reduced spread in CTBs and impaired formation of virion assembly compartments, with mAb 2-18 achieving better suppression at lower concentrations. These results predict that antibodies generated by HCMV vaccines or used for passive immunization have the potential to reduce transplacental transmission and congenital disease.

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congenital infectioncytotrophoblastshuman cytomegalovirusplacentatransplacental transmissionvillus explants

Identifiers

PMID31569508
PMCPMC6963214
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