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ArticleNature communications2021

Sequence signatures of two public antibody clonotypes that bind SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain.

Timothy J C Tan, Meng Yuan, Kaylee Kuzelka, Gilberto C Padron, Jacob R Beal, Xin Chen, Yiquan Wang, Joel Rivera-Cardona, Xueyong Zhu, Beth M Stadtmueller and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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13 authors.

Timothy J C Tan *Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5337-5357
Meng Yuan *Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-4503
Kaylee KuzelkaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Gilberto C PadronDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Jacob R BealDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Xin ChenCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Yiquan WangDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1954-9808
Joel Rivera-CardonaDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Xueyong ZhuDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6021-3740
Beth M StadtmuellerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Christopher B BrookeDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Ian A WilsonDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. wilson@scripps.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6469-2419
Nicholas C WuCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. nicwu@illinois.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9078-6697

Funding

MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF INFLUENZA-HOST INTERACTIONS FROM A ZOONOTIC PERSPECTIVER00AI139445 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI WU, NICHOLAS C. · 2020 to 2021
$492k
Mechanistic understanding of influenza-host interactions from a zoonotic perspectiveK99AI139445 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WU, NICHOLAS C. · 2019 to 2020
$132k
NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI139445NIAID NIH HHS R00 AI139445
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the COVID-19 pandemic onset, the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 has been extensively characterized. Antibodies to the receptor binding domain (RBD) on the spike protein are frequently encoded by IGHV3-53/3-66 with a short complementarity-determining region (CDR) H3. Germline-encoded sequence motifs in heavy chain CDRs H1 and H2 have a major function, but whether any common motifs are present in CDR H3, which is often critical for binding specificity, is not clear. Here, we identify two public clonotypes of IGHV3-53/3-66 RBD antibodies with a 9-residue CDR H3 that pair with different light chains. Distinct sequence motifs on CDR H3 are present in the two public clonotypes that seem to be related to differential light chain pairing. Additionally, we show that Y58F is a common somatic hypermutation that results in increased binding affinity of IGHV3-53/3-66 RBD antibodies with a short CDR H3. These results advance understanding of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2.

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Amino Acid SequenceAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Antibodies, NeutralizingAntibody FormationComplementarity Determining RegionsCOVID-19Crystallography, X-RayHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein DomainsSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusACE2 protein, humanAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Antibodies, NeutralizingComplementarity Determining RegionsSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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PMID34155209
PMCPMC8217500

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