SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Extrapolation for COVID Diagnosis and Vaccine Development

Copyright © 2021 Malik, Kumar, Ansari, Hemida, El Zowalaty, Abdel-Moneim, Ganesh, Salajegheh, Natesan, Sircar, Safdar, Vinodhkumar, Duarte, Patel, Klein, Rahimi and Dhama..

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affecting nearly 71.2 million humans in more than 191 countries, with more than 1.6 million mortalities as of 12 December, 2020. The spike glycoprotein (S-protein), anchored onto the virus envelope, is the trimer of S-protein comprised of S1 and S2 domains which interacts with host cell receptors and facilitates virus-cell membrane fusion. The S1 domain comprises of a receptor binding domain (RBD) possessing an N-terminal domain and two subdomains (SD1 and SD2). Certain regions of S-protein of SARS-CoV-2 such as S2 domain and fragment of the RBD remain conserved despite the high selection pressure. These conserved regions of the S-protein are extrapolated as the potential target for developing molecular diagnostic techniques. Further, the S-protein acts as an antigenic target for different serological assay platforms for the diagnosis of COVID-19. Virus-specific IgM and IgG antibodies can be used to detect viral proteins in ELISA and lateral flow immunoassays. The S-protein of SARS-CoV-2 has very high sequence similarity to SARS-CoV-1, and the monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against SARS-CoV-1 cross-react with S-protein of SARS-CoV-2 and neutralize its activity. Furthermore, in vitro studies have demonstrated that polyclonal antibodies targeted against the RBD of S-protein of SARS-CoV-1 can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 thus inhibiting its infectivity in permissive cell lines. Research on coronaviral S-proteins paves the way for the development of vaccines that may prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and alleviate the current global coronavirus pandemic. However, specific neutralizing mAbs against SARS-CoV-2 are in clinical development. Therefore, neutralizing antibodies targeting SARS-CoV-2 S-protein are promising specific antiviral therapeutics for pre-and post-exposure prophylaxis and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. We hereby review the approaches taken by researchers across the world to use spike gene and S-glycoprotein for the development of effective diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics against SARA-CoV-2 infection the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in molecular biosciences - 8(2021) vom: 07., Seite 607886

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Malik, Yashpal S [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Prashant [VerfasserIn]
Ansari, Mohd Ikram [VerfasserIn]
Hemida, Maged G [VerfasserIn]
El Zowalaty, Mohamed E [VerfasserIn]
Abdel-Moneim, Ahmed S [VerfasserIn]
Ganesh, Balasubramanian [VerfasserIn]
Salajegheh, Sina [VerfasserIn]
Natesan, Senthilkumar [VerfasserIn]
Sircar, Shubhankar [VerfasserIn]
Safdar, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]
Vinodhkumar, O R [VerfasserIn]
Duarte, Phelipe M [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Shailesh K [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Jörn [VerfasserIn]
Rahimi, Parastoo [VerfasserIn]
Dhama, Kuldeep [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19
Coronavirus pandemic
Diagnosis
Journal Article
Review
S-protein
SARS-CoV-2
Vaccines

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Date Revised 01.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmolb.2021.607886

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NLM329392441