Fully human single-domain antibodies against SARS-CoV-2
Yanling Wu, Cheng Li, Shuai Xia, Xiaolong Tian, Zhi Wang, Yu Kong, Chenjian Gu, Rong Zhang, Chao Tu, Youhua Xie, Lu Lu, Shibo Jiang, Tianlei Ying
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.30.015990
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly, highlighting the urgent need for an efficient approach to rapidly develop therapeutics and prophylactics against SARS-CoV-2. We describe here the development of a phage-displayed single-domain antibody library by grafting naive CDRs into framework regions of an identified human germline IGHV allele. This enabled the isolation of high-affinity single-domain antibodies of fully human origin. The panning using SARS-CoV-2 RBD and S1 as antigens resulted in the identification of antibodies targeting five types of neutralizing or non-neutralizing epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 RBD. These fully human single-domain antibodies bound specifically to SARS-CoV-2 RBD with subnanomolar to low nanomolar affinities.
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