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ArticleScientific reports2020

Effective screening of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in patient serum using lentivirus particles pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein.

Ritesh Tandon, Dipanwita Mitra, Poonam Sharma, Martin G McCandless, Stephen J Stray, John T Bates, Gailen D Marshall

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ritesh TandonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA. rtandon@umc.edu.
Dipanwita MitraDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
Poonam SharmaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
Martin G McCandlessDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
Stephen J StrayDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
John T BatesDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
Gailen D MarshallDepartment of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
University of Mississippi Medical Center · USJackson Memorial Hospital · US

Funding

Role of obesity in preeclamptic pregnancy.P20GM121334 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CTR · PI Ashley C. Johnson, Babbette LaMarca · 2017 to 2026
$26.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM121334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseuodotyped particles have significant importance and use in virology as tools for studying the biology of highly pathogenic viruses in a lower biosafety environment. The biological, chemical, and serological studies of the recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 will be greatly aided by the development and optimization of a suitable pseudotyping system. Here, we pseudotyped the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein (SPG) on a traditional retroviral (MMLV) as well as a third generation lentiviral (pLV) vector and tested the transduction efficiency in several mammalian cell lines expressing SARS-CoV-2 receptor hACE2. While MMLV pseudotyped the vesicular stomatitis virus G glycoprotein (VSV-G) efficiently, it could not pseudotype the full-length SPG. In contrast, pLV pseudotyped both glycoproteins efficiently; however, much higher titers of pLV-G particles were produced. Among all the tested mammalian cells, 293Ts expressing hACE2 were most efficiently transduced using the pLV-S system. The pLV-S particles were efficiently neutralized by diluted serum (>:640) from recently recovered COVID-19 patients who showed high SARS-CoV-2 specific IgM and IgG levels. In summary, pLV-S pseudotyped virus provides a valid screening tool for the presence of anti SARS-CoV-2 specific neutralizing antibodies in convalescent patient serum.

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AnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralBetacoronavirusCell LineGenetic VectorsHumansLentivirusSARS-CoV-2Serologic TestsSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusTransduction, GeneticAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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PMID33154514
PMCPMC7645753
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