A rapid simple point-of-care assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies

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Background: Neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) prevent pathogens from infecting host cells. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 NAbs is critical to evaluate herd immunity and monitor vaccine efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. All currently available NAb tests are lab-based and time-intensive.

Method: We develop a 10 min cellulose pull-down test to detect NAbs against SARS-CoV-2 from human plasma. The test evaluates the ability of antibodies to disrupt ACE2 receptor-RBD complex formation. The simple, portable, and rapid testing process relies on two key technologies: (i) the vertical-flow paper-based assay format and (ii) the rapid interaction of cellulose binding domain to cellulose paper.

Results: Here we show the construction of a cellulose-based vertical-flow test. The developed test gives above 80% sensitivity and specificity and up to 93% accuracy as compared to two current lab-based methods using COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

Conclusions: A rapid 10 min cellulose based test has been developed for detection of NAb against SARS-CoV-2. The test demonstrates comparable performance to the lab-based tests and can be used at Point-of-Care. Importantly, the approach used for this test can be easily extended to test RBD variants or to evaluate NAbs against other pathogens.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1

Enthalten in:

Communications medicine - 1(2021) vom: 12., Seite 46

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kongsuphol, Patthara [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Hoi Lok [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari D/O [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ming Wei [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Sing Mei [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Say Yong [VerfasserIn]
Tambyah, Paul Ananth [VerfasserIn]
Nasir, Haziq [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Xiaohong [VerfasserIn]
Tay, Dousabel [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Seunghyeon [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Rashi [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Xinlei [VerfasserIn]
Kozma, Mary M [VerfasserIn]
Purushotorman, Kiren [VerfasserIn]
McBee, Megan E [VerfasserIn]
MacAry, Paul A [VerfasserIn]
Sikes, Hadley D [VerfasserIn]
Preiser, Peter R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Diseases
Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 02.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s43856-021-00045-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM341247812