Journal: Nat Commun / Year: 2023 Title: Intranasal trimeric sherpabody inhibits SARS-CoV-2 including recent immunoevasive Omicron subvariants. Authors: Anna R Mäkelä / Hasan Uğurlu / Liina Hannula / Ravi Kant / Petja Salminen / Riku Fagerlund / Sanna Mäki / Anu Haveri / Tomas Strandin / Lauri Kareinen / Jussi Hepojoki / Suvi Kuivanen / ...Authors: Anna R Mäkelä / Hasan Uğurlu / Liina Hannula / Ravi Kant / Petja Salminen / Riku Fagerlund / Sanna Mäki / Anu Haveri / Tomas Strandin / Lauri Kareinen / Jussi Hepojoki / Suvi Kuivanen / Lev Levanov / Arja Pasternack / Rauno A Naves / Olli Ritvos / Pamela Österlund / Tarja Sironen / Olli Vapalahti / Anja Kipar / Juha T Huiskonen / Ilona Rissanen / Kalle Saksela / Abstract: The emergence of increasingly immunoevasive SARS-CoV-2 variants emphasizes the need for prophylactic strategies to complement vaccination in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Intranasal administration ...The emergence of increasingly immunoevasive SARS-CoV-2 variants emphasizes the need for prophylactic strategies to complement vaccination in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Intranasal administration of neutralizing antibodies has shown encouraging protective potential but there remains a need for SARS-CoV-2 blocking agents that are less vulnerable to mutational viral variation and more economical to produce in large scale. Here we describe TriSb92, a highly manufacturable and stable trimeric antibody-mimetic sherpabody targeted against a conserved region of the viral spike glycoprotein. TriSb92 potently neutralizes SARS-CoV-2, including the latest Omicron variants like BF.7, XBB, and BQ.1.1. In female Balb/c mice intranasal administration of just 5 or 50 micrograms of TriSb92 as early as 8 h before but also 4 h after SARS-CoV-2 challenge can protect from infection. Cryo-EM and biochemical studies reveal triggering of a conformational shift in the spike trimer as the inhibitory mechanism of TriSb92. The potency and robust biochemical properties of TriSb92 together with its resistance against viral sequence evolution suggest that TriSb92 could be useful as a nasal spray for protecting susceptible individuals from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Film or detector model: GATAN K2 QUANTUM (4k x 4k) / Detector mode: COUNTING / Digitization - Frames/image: 1-40 / Number real images: 5996 / Average electron dose: 1.375 e/Å2
Electron beam
Acceleration voltage: 300 kV / Electron source: FIELD EMISSION GUN
Applied symmetry - Point group: C1 (asymmetric) / Algorithm: FOURIER SPACE / Resolution.type: BY AUTHOR / Resolution: 2.9 Å / Resolution method: FSC 0.143 CUT-OFF / Software - Name: cryoSPARC (ver. 4.0.0) / Number images used: 150665
Initial angle assignment
Type: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
Final angle assignment
Type: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
FSC plot (resolution estimation)
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Atomic model buiding 1
Details
Initial fitting of non-RBD regions of the S-trimer, RBDs and Sb92s was done in ChimeraX, and then Coot was used to adjust the linker regions between RBDs and S.
Refinement
Protocol: RIGID BODY FIT
Output model
PDB-8c1v: SARS-CoV-2 S-trimer (3 RBDs up) bound to TriSb92, fitted into cryo-EM map
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