ArticleImmunity2023
Broadly neutralizing anti-S2 antibodies protect against all three human betacoronaviruses that cause deadly disease.
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32 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
Panpan ZhouDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Ge SongDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Hejun LiuDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Meng YuanDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Wan-Ting HeDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Nathan BeutlerDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Xueyong ZhuDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Longping V TseDepartment of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
David R MartinezDepartment of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Alexandra SchäferDepartment of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Fabio AnzanelloDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Peter YongDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Linghang PengDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Katharina DuekerDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Rami MusharrafiehDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Sean CallaghanDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Tazio CapozzolaDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Oliver LimboIAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Mara ParrenDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Elijah GarciaDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Stephen A RawlingsDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Davey M SmithDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
David NemazeeDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Joseph G JardineIAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Yana SafonovaDepartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Bryan BrineyDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Thomas F RogersDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Ian A WilsonIAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: wilson@scripps.edu.
Ralph S BaricDepartment of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: rbaric@email.unc.edu.
Lisa E GralinskiDepartment of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: lgralins@email.unc.edu.
Dennis R BurtonDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: burton@scripps.edu.
Raiees AndrabiDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: andrabi@scripps.edu.
Scripps Research Institute · USInternational AIDS Vaccine Initiative · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of California, San Diego · USJohns Hopkins University · USRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard · US
Funding
VirologyP30AI036214 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SUSAN JANET LITTLE · 1994 to 2026
$78.4MX-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) pp.711-759P41GM103393 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HODGSON, KEITH O · 2012 to 2019
$30.6MProject 3: Serological Interactions with the Mucosal Innate Immune System Regulates COVID-19 Associated Tissue Damage.U54CA260543 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WOLFGANG, MATTHEW C · 2020 to 2024
$9.8MHOPE Training GrantT32AI007384 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Sara Gianella Weibel, Scott L Letendre · 1990 to 2026
$9.7MHuman antibody-based countermeasures against the Wuhan Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2R01AI157155 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BARIC, RALPH S, CROWE, JAMES E · 2020 to 2024
$6.0MIdentifying Genetic Regulators and New Models of Wild Type Coronavirus PathogenesisR21AI145372 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GRALINSKI, LISA · 2020 to 2021
$389kHoward Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS U54 CA260543NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI036214NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI157155NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI145372NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007384NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103393
Abstract
Pan-betacoronavirus neutralizing antibodies may hold the key to developing broadly protective vaccines against novel pandemic coronaviruses and to more effectively respond to SARS-CoV-2 variants. The emergence of Omicron and subvariants of SARS-CoV-2 illustrates the limitations of solely targeting the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike (S) protein. Here, we isolated a large panel of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) from SARS-CoV-2 recovered-vaccinated donors, which targets a conserved S2 region in the betacoronavirus spike fusion machinery. Select bnAbs showed broad in vivo protection against all three deadly betacoronaviruses, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, and MERS-CoV, which have spilled over into humans in the past two decades. Structural studies of these bnAbs delineated the molecular basis for their broad reactivity and revealed common antibody features targetable by broad vaccination strategies. These bnAbs provide new insights and opportunities for antibody-based interventions and for developing pan-betacoronavirus vaccines.
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