A replication-competent vesicular stomatitis virus for studies of SARS-CoV-2 spike-mediated cell entry and its inhibition

Summary There is an urgent need for vaccines and therapeutics to prevent and treat COVID-19. Rapid SARS-CoV-2 countermeasure development is contingent on the availability of robust, scalable, and readily deployable surrogate viral assays to screen antiviral humoral responses, and define correlates of immune protection, and to down-select candidate antivirals. Here, we describe a highly infectious recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus bearing the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S as its sole entry glycoprotein that closely resembles the authentic agent in its entry-related properties. We show that the neutralizing activities of a large panel of COVID-19 convalescent sera can be assessed in high-throughput fluorescent reporter assay with rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S and that neutralization of the rVSV and authentic SARS-CoV-2 by spike-specific antibodies in these antisera is highly correlated. Our findings underscore the utility of rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S for the development of spike-specific vaccines and therapeutics and for mechanistic studies of viral entry and its inhibition..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 24. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dieterle, M. Eugenia [VerfasserIn]
Haslwanter, Denise [VerfasserIn]
Bortz, Robert H. [VerfasserIn]
Wirchnianski, Ariel S. [VerfasserIn]
Lasso, Gorka [VerfasserIn]
Vergnolle, Olivia [VerfasserIn]
Abbasi, Shawn A. [VerfasserIn]
Fels, J. Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
Laudermilch, Ethan [VerfasserIn]
Florez, Catalina [VerfasserIn]
Mengotto, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
Kimmel, Duncan [VerfasserIn]
Malonis, Ryan J. [VerfasserIn]
Georgiev, George [VerfasserIn]
Quiroz, Jose [VerfasserIn]
Barnhill, Jason [VerfasserIn]
Pirofski, Liise-anne [VerfasserIn]
Daily, Johanna P. [VerfasserIn]
Dye, John M. [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Jonathan R. [VerfasserIn]
Herbert, Andrew S. [VerfasserIn]
Chandran, Kartik [VerfasserIn]
Jangra, Rohit K. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.05.20.105247

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI017927218