Journal: mBio
Article Title: Re-infection with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with increased antibody breadth and potency against diverse sarbecovirus strains
doi: 10.1128/mbio.03612-25
Figure Lengend Snippet: Functional activity of PVI-2 antibodies compared to PVI-1 antibodies from the same clonal family. ( A ) Percent somatic hypermutation of IgG heavy chain and light chain among clonal lineage members. ( B ) Comparison of binding profiles between PVI-1 mAbs and clonal lineage members in PVI-2. The heatmap shows OD450 nm binding activity by ELISA, with the antigens tested shown to the left. The antibodies tested are indicated at the top with mAbs from PVI-1 in orange text and PVI-2 in black text. mAbs were tested in duplicate at a fixed concentration of 1,000 ng/mL. Green indicates binding with increasing shades of green indicating increasing OD450 values, as indicated in the key to the right. The cases with the darkest green (>3.0 OD450) are qualitative and not quantitative results, as the assay would be saturated for the most potent binding mAbs. Gray indicates no detectable binding. ( C ) Heatmap of neutralization IC50s (µg/mL) of the same antibodies as in panel B. Viruses tested are shown to the left, with SARS-CoV-2 variants in the top half and more diverse sarbecoviruses in the bottom half. The color gradient represents neutralization activity as shown in the key to the right, with darker shades of blue correlating with IC50 potency. Gray indicates no detectable neutralization (IC50), and white indicates the mAbs were not tested because they did not bind SARS-CoV-1 spike trimer. IC50 values were averaged from 2 to 6 independent experiments performed in technical duplicate. IC50 values were calculated with GraphPad Prism, with a four-parameter non-linear regression model. ( D ) Geometric mean of the IC50 values (µg/mL) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of the panel of viruses tested in panel C . IC50 >20 µg/mL was set to 20 µg/mL in this calculation. The number of viruses neutralized is displayed as a fraction of viruses that the antibody neutralizes with an IC50 <20 µg/mL, over the total number of viruses the antibody was tested against.
Article Snippet: In addition, a subset was also tested for binding to SARS-CoV-2 Delta trimer (Sino Biological, cat. 40589-V08H10) and SARS-CoV-2 B.Q.1.1 trimer (Sino Biological, cat. 40589-V08H41).
Techniques: Functional Assay, Activity Assay, Comparison, Binding Assay, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Concentration Assay, Neutralization