Journal article
A SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test based on antibody-mediated blockage of ACE2-spike protein-protein interaction
Chee Wah Tan, Wan Ni Chia, Xijian Qin, Pei Liu, Mark I-C Chen, Charles Tiu, Zhiliang Hu, Vivian Chih-Wei Chen, Barnaby E Young, Wan Rong Sia, Yee-Joo Tan, Randy Foo, Yongxiang Yi, David C Lye, Danielle E Anderson, Lin-Fa Wang
Nature Biotechnology | NATURE RESEARCH | Published : 2020
Abstract
A robust serological test to detect neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 is urgently needed to determine not only the infection rate, herd immunity and predicted humoral protection, but also vaccine efficacy during clinical trials and after large-scale vaccination. The current gold standard is the conventional virus neutralization test requiring live pathogen and a biosafety level 3 laboratory. Here, we report a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test that detects total immunodominant neutralizing antibodies targeting the viral spike (S) protein receptor-binding domain in an isotype- and species-independent manner. Our simple and rapid test is based on antibody-mediated blockage of t..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank S. Tang, Y. Shen, N. Mao, W. Shao and L. Zhu for technical assistance, advice and logistics support with assay development and testing; Y. Peng, A. Gamage, B. L. Lim and X. M. Ong for assistance with protein purification, sample management and testing; Y. Abdad and L. W. L. Tan for help with human CoV serum collection; V. Vijayan, B. Ng and V. Sivalingam of the Duke-NUS Medical School ABSL3 facility for logistics management and assistance. L.-F.W. and D.E.A. are supported by grants from the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF2016NRF-NSFC002-013) and the National Medical Research Council (STPRG-FY19-001 and COVID19RF-003).