National Institutes of Health/National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID)
R01 AI171438
United States
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Journal: Cell Rep / Year: 2024 Title: Defining bottlenecks and opportunities for Lassa virus neutralization by structural profiling of vaccine-induced polyclonal antibody responses. Authors: Philip J M Brouwer / Hailee R Perrett / Tim Beaumont / Haye Nijhuis / Sabine Kruijer / Judith A Burger / Ilja Bontjer / Wen-Hsin Lee / James A Ferguson / Martin Schauflinger / Helena Müller- ...Authors: Philip J M Brouwer / Hailee R Perrett / Tim Beaumont / Haye Nijhuis / Sabine Kruijer / Judith A Burger / Ilja Bontjer / Wen-Hsin Lee / James A Ferguson / Martin Schauflinger / Helena Müller-Kräuter / Rogier W Sanders / Thomas Strecker / Marit J van Gils / Andrew B Ward / Abstract: Lassa fever continues to be a major public health burden in West Africa, yet effective therapies or vaccines are lacking. The isolation of protective neutralizing antibodies against the Lassa virus ...Lassa fever continues to be a major public health burden in West Africa, yet effective therapies or vaccines are lacking. The isolation of protective neutralizing antibodies against the Lassa virus glycoprotein complex (GPC) justifies the development of vaccines that can elicit strong neutralizing antibody responses. However, Lassa vaccine candidates have generally been unsuccessful at doing so, and the associated antibody responses to these vaccines remain poorly characterized. Here, we establish an electron microscopy-based epitope mapping workflow that enables high-resolution structural characterization of polyclonal antibodies to the GPC. By applying this method to rabbits vaccinated with a recombinant GPC vaccine and a GPC-derived virus-like particle, we reveal determinants of neutralization that involve epitopes of the GPC-A competition cluster. Furthermore, by identifying undescribed immunogenic off-target epitopes, we expose the challenges that recombinant GPC vaccines face. By enabling detailed polyclonal antibody characterization, our work ushers in a next generation of more rational Lassa vaccine design.
Details: The startup model also contains the I53-50A scaffold (7SGE) and a constant domain for 8.9F Fab was added by overlaying with full rabbit Fab (4ZTP). The overall complex was low pass filtered in UCSF Chimera.
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Resolution.type: BY AUTHOR / Resolution: 25.0 Å / Resolution method: FSC 0.5 CUT-OFF / Software - Name: RELION / Number images used: 2937
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Type: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
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Type: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
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