Engineered Multivalent Nanobodies Potently and Broadly Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Variants.

COVID‐19 antibody antibody fragment camelid polyvalency polyvalent protein engineering

Journal

Advanced therapeutics
ISSN: 2366-3987
Titre abrégé: Adv Ther (Weinh)
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101724632

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Historique:
received: 28 04 2021
revised: 04 07 2021
entrez: 13 9 2021
pubmed: 14 9 2021
medline: 14 9 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a severe threat to human health, especially due to current and emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants with potential to escape humoral immunity developed after vaccination or infection. The development of broadly neutralizing antibodies that engage evolutionarily conserved epitopes on coronavirus spike proteins represents a promising strategy to improve therapy and prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 and variants thereof. Herein, a facile multivalent engineering approach is employed to achieve large synergistic improvements in the neutralizing activity of a SARS-CoV-2 cross-reactive nanobody (VHH-72) initially generated against SARS-CoV. This synergy is epitope specific and is not observed for a second high-affinity nanobody against a non-conserved epitope in the receptor-binding domain. Importantly, a hexavalent VHH-72 nanobody retains binding to spike proteins from multiple highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants (B.1.1.7 and B.1.351) and potently neutralizes them. Multivalent VHH-72 nanobodies also display drug-like biophysical properties, including high stability, high solubility, and low levels of non-specific binding. The unique neutralizing and biophysical properties of VHH-72 multivalent nanobodies make them attractive as therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34514086
doi: 10.1002/adtp.202100099
pii: ADTP202100099
pmc: PMC8420545
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

2100099

Subventions

Organisme : NIAID NIH HHS
ID : R01 AI048602
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIAID NIH HHS
ID : R01 AI151588
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : RF1 AG059723
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Jennifer M Zupancic (JM)

Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

John S Schardt (JS)

Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Alec A Desai (AA)

Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Emily K Makowski (EK)

Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Matthew D Smith (MD)

Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Ghasidit Pornnoppadol (G)

Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa (M)

Department of Surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Marilia Cascalho (M)

Department of Surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Thomas M Lanigan (TM)

Division of Rheumatology Department of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

Peter M Tessier (PM)

Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Biointerfaces Institute University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.
Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA.

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