Development of humanized tri-specific nanobodies with potent neutralization for SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2 is a newly emergent coronavirus, which has adversely impacted human health and has led to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an unmet need to develop therapies against SARS-CoV-2 due to its severity and lack of treatment options. A promising approach to combat COVID-19 is through the neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by therapeutic antibodies. Previously, we described a strategy to rapidly identify and generate llama nanobodies (VHH) from naïve and synthetic humanized VHH phage libraries that specifically bind the S1 SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and block the interaction with the human ACE2 receptor. In this study we used computer-aided design to construct multi-specific VHH antibodies fused to human IgG1 Fc domains based on the epitope predictions for leading VHHs. The resulting tri-specific VHH-Fc antibodies show more potent S1 binding, S1/ACE2 blocking, and SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization than the bi-specific VHH-Fcs or combination of individual monoclonal VHH-Fcs. Furthermore, protein stability analysis of the VHH-Fcs shows favorable developability features, which enable them to be quickly and successfully developed into therapeutics against COVID-19.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: Sci Rep. 2021 Feb 17;11(1):4371. - PMID 33597581

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 10(2020), 1 vom: 20. Okt., Seite 17806

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dong, Jianbo [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Betty [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Titong, Allison [VerfasserIn]
Gallolu Kankanamalage, Sachith [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Zhejun [VerfasserIn]
Wright, Meredith [VerfasserIn]
Parthasarathy, Pannaga [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yue [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ACE2 protein, human
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2
EC 3.4.15.1
EC 3.4.17.23
Epitopes
Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments
Journal Article
Peptide Library
Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
Single-Domain Antibodies
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
Spike protein, SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 04.11.2020

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Electronic

ErratumIn: Sci Rep. 2021 Feb 17;11(1):4371. - PMID 33597581

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-020-74761-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316517216