Antibody-dependent-cellular-cytotoxicity-inducing antibodies significantly affect the post-exposure treatment of Ebola virus infection

Passive immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is an efficacious treatment for Ebola virus (EBOV) infections in animal models and humans. Understanding what constitutes a protective response is critical for the development of novel therapeutic strategies. We generated an EBOV-glycoprotein-pseudotyped Human immunodeficiency virus to develop sensitive neutralizing and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) assays as well as a bioluminescent-imaging-based mouse infection model that does not require biosafety level 4 containment. The in vivo treatment efficiencies of three novel anti-EBOV mAbs at 12 h post-infection correlated with their in vitro anti-EBOV ADCC activities, without neutralizing activity. When they were treated with these mAbs, natural killer cell (NK)-deficient mice had lower viral clearance than WT mice, indicating that the anti-EBOV mechanism of the ADCC activity of these mAbs is predominantly mediated by NK cells. One potent anti-EBOV mAb (M318) displayed unprecedented neutralizing and ADCC activities (neutralization IC50, 0.018 μg/ml; ADCC EC50, 0.095 μg/ml). These results have important implications for the efficacy of antiviral drugs and vaccines as well as for pathogenicity studies of EBOV.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 7(2017) vom: 30. März, Seite 45552

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Changfa [VerfasserIn]
Li, Qianqian [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Shuya [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Weijin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lan [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Chunyun [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Li, Baowen [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Liangzhi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Youchun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 11.12.2018

Date Revised 11.12.2018

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/srep45552

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM27046462X