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ArticleScientific reports2021

Exploring antibody repurposing for COVID-19: beyond presumed roles of therapeutic antibodies.

Puneet Rawat, Divya Sharma, Ambuj Srivastava, Vani Janakiraman, M Michael Gromiha

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Puneet RawatProtein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India.
Divya SharmaProtein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India.
Ambuj SrivastavaProtein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India.
Vani JanakiramanInfection Biology Lab, Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India. vani@iitm.ac.in.
M Michael GromihaProtein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India. gromiha@iitm.ac.in.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras · IN

Funding

Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Inelligence (RBCDSAI), Indian Institute of Technology Madras SB/20-21/0601/BT/RBCX/008473
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The urgent need for a treatment of COVID-19 has left researchers with limited choice of either developing an effective vaccine or identifying approved/investigational drugs developed for other medical conditions for potential repurposing, thus bypassing long clinical trials. In this work, we compared the sequences of experimentally verified SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and sequentially/structurally similar commercialized therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. We have identified three therapeutic antibodies, Tremelimumab, Ipilimumab and Afasevikumab. Interestingly, these antibodies target CTLA4 and IL17A, levels of which have been shown to be elevated during severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. The candidate antibodies were evaluated further for epitope restriction, interaction energy and interaction surface to gauge their repurposability to tackle SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our work provides candidate antibody scaffolds with dual activities of plausible viral neutralization and immunosuppression. Further, these candidate antibodies can also be explored in diagnostic test kits for SARS-CoV-2 infection. We opine that this in silico workflow to screen and analyze antibodies for repurposing would have widespread applications.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug RepositioningAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAntibodies, NeutralizingCOVID-19EpitopesHumansIpilimumabMolecular Docking SimulationSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAntibodies, NeutralizingEpitopesIpilimumabSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2tremelimumab

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PMID33986382
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