National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)
R01-AI127521
United States
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Journal: bioRxiv / Year: 2020 Title: Structure-based Design of Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 Spikes. Authors: Ching-Lin Hsieh / Jory A Goldsmith / Jeffrey M Schaub / Andrea M DiVenere / Hung-Che Kuo / Kamyab Javanmardi / Kevin C Le / Daniel Wrapp / Alison Gene-Wei Lee / Yutong Liu / Chia-Wei Chou / ...Authors: Ching-Lin Hsieh / Jory A Goldsmith / Jeffrey M Schaub / Andrea M DiVenere / Hung-Che Kuo / Kamyab Javanmardi / Kevin C Le / Daniel Wrapp / Alison Gene-Wei Lee / Yutong Liu / Chia-Wei Chou / Patrick O Byrne / Christy K Hjorth / Nicole V Johnson / John Ludes-Meyers / Annalee W Nguyen / Juyeon Park / Nianshuang Wang / Dzifa Amengor / Jennifer A Maynard / Ilya J Finkelstein / Jason S McLellan / Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to accelerated efforts to develop therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines to mitigate this public health emergency. A key ...The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to accelerated efforts to develop therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines to mitigate this public health emergency. A key target of these efforts is the spike (S) protein, a large trimeric class I fusion protein that is metastable and difficult to produce recombinantly in large quantities. Here, we designed and expressed over 100 structure-guided spike variants based upon a previously determined cryo-EM structure of the prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spike. Biochemical, biophysical and structural characterization of these variants identified numerous individual substitutions that increased protein yields and stability. The best variant, HexaPro, has six beneficial proline substitutions leading to ~10-fold higher expression than its parental construct and is able to withstand heat stress, storage at room temperature, and multiple freeze-thaws. A 3.2 Å-resolution cryo-EM structure of HexaPro confirmed that it retains the prefusion spike conformation. High-yield production of a stabilized prefusion spike protein will accelerate the development of vaccines and serological diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2.
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