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ArticleViruses2022

ORFeome Phage Display Reveals a Major Immunogenic Epitope on the S2 Subdomain of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein.

Rico Ballmann, Sven-Kevin Hotop, Federico Bertoglio, Stephan Steinke, Philip Alexander Heine, M Zeeshan Chaudhry, Dieter Jahn, Boas Pucker, Fausto Baldanti, Antonio Piralla and 5 more

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Article in Viruses, 2022. 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.

  1. ImmunogenicmSphere · 2025
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  5. Mapping Epitopes by Phage Display.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  6. Biomarker Discovery by ORFeome Phage Display.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Rico BallmannInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Sven-Kevin HotopHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.
Federico BertoglioInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6477-1785
Stephan SteinkeInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8559-954X
Philip Alexander HeineInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
M Zeeshan ChaudhryHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1372-4257
Dieter JahnInstitut für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Boas PuckerInstitute of Plant Biology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Humboldtstr 1, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3321-7471
Fausto BaldantiDepartment of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Antonio PirallaMolecular Virology Unit, Microbiology and Virology Department, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico, 27100 Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6062-2579
Maren SchubertInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7041-9056
Luka Čičin-ŠainHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3978-778X
Mark BrönstrupHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8971-7045
Michael HustInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Stefan DübelInstitut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8811-7390

Funding

COVID-19-Research Network Lower Saxony (COFONI) 14-76403-184European Union’s Horizon 2020 101003650MWK Niedersachsen 14-76103-184 CORONA-2/20
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of antibody therapies against SARS-CoV-2 remains a challenging task during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. All approved therapeutic antibodies are directed against the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike, and therefore lose neutralization efficacy against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, which frequently mutate in the RBD region. Previously, phage display has been used to identify epitopes of antibody responses against several diseases. Such epitopes have been applied to design vaccines or neutralize antibodies. Here, we constructed an ORFeome phage display library for the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Open reading frames (ORFs) representing the SARS-CoV-2 genome were displayed on the surface of phage particles in order to identify enriched immunogenic epitopes from COVID-19 patients. Library quality was assessed by both NGS and epitope mapping of a monoclonal antibody with a known binding site. The most prominent epitope captured represented parts of the fusion peptide (FP) of the spike. It is associated with the cell entry mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 into the host cell; the serine protease TMPRSS2 cleaves the spike within this sequence. Blocking this mechanism could be a potential target for non-RBD binding therapeutic anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. As mutations within the FP amino acid sequence have been rather rare among SARS-CoV-2 variants so far, this may provide an advantage in the fight against future virus variants.

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BacteriophagesCOVID-19Antibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralAntibody FormationEpitopesHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralEpitopesSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2COVID-19epitope mappinggenomic libraryNGSphage display

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PMID35746797
PMCPMC9229677

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