ArticleEmerging microbes & infections2022
The prominent role of a CDR1 somatic hypermutation for convergent IGHV3-53/3-66 antibodies in binding to SARS-CoV-2.
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- An ancestral SARS-CoV-2 vaccine induces anti-Omicron variants antibodies by hypermutation.Nature communications · 2024Article
- An allelic atlas of immunoglobulin heavy chain variable regions reveals antibody binding epitope preference resilient to SARS-CoV-2 mutation escape.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Breakthrough infection elicits hypermutated IGHV3-53/3-66 public antibodies with broad and potent neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants including the emerging EG.5 lineages.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Broadly neutralizing human antibodies against Omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2.Journal of biomedical science · 2023Article
- Substantially Improved Electrofusion Efficiency of Hybridoma Cells: Based on the Combination of Nanosecond and Microsecond Pulses.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) serve as key strategies for the rapid prevention and treatment of COVID-19. However, analysis to fully characterize functional SARS-CoV-2 mAbs is still needed. In this study, by interrogating 1,695 published or patented mAbs of human origin and validated SARS-CoV-2-binding potency, we found a highly preferential usage of IGHV3-53/3-66 germline genes that was then revealed as a distinct selectivity of SARS-CoV-2-induced humoral immunity across other coronaviruses. Moreover, among the rare somatic hypermutations, we identified a novel mutation signature of F27 to I, L, or V with high frequency, which was located in the CDR1 region of the heavy chain among IGHV3-53/3-66-encoded antibodies. This convergent mutation contributed to improving SARS-CoV-2 binding affinity and may advance our knowledge of the humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
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