A COVID-19 antibody curbs SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein-induced complement hyperactivation

Abstract Although human antibodies elicited by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleocapsid (N) protein are profoundly boosted upon infection, little is known about the function of N-reactive antibodies. Herein, we isolated and profiled a panel of 32 N protein-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) from a quick recovery coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) convalescent patient who had dominant antibody responses to the SARS-CoV-2 N protein rather than to the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein. The complex structure of the N protein RNA binding domain with the mAb with the highest binding affinity (nCoV396) revealed changes in the epitopes and antigen’s allosteric regulation. Functionally, a virus-free complement hyper-activation analysis demonstrated that nCoV396 specifically compromises the N protein-induced complement hyper-activation, which is a risk factor for the morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 patients, thus laying the foundation for the identification of functional anti-N protein mAbs..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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ResearchSquare.com - (2022) vom: 29. Juli Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kang, Sisi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Mei [VerfasserIn]
He, Suhua [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yueming [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiaoxue [VerfasserIn]
chen, Yao-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Zhongsi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Guanmin [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Qiuyue [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ziliang [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Zhechong [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zhaoxia [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xi [VerfasserIn]
He, Huanhuan [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Weihong [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Hua-Xin [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shoudeng [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-106760/v1

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XRA033592810