Journal: Cell reports
Article Title: SARS-CoV-2 spike N-terminal domain modulates TMPRSS2-dependent viral entry and fusogenicity.
doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111220
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 1. SARS-CoV-2 Delta exhibits increased infectivity over Kappa in Calu3 cells and is dependent on the NTD (A) Schematic diagrams of WT (with D614G), Kappa, and Delta with their chimeras bearing swapped NTDs. The consensus mutations be- tween Kappa and Delta are annotated in blue. The monomeric spikes shown on the right-hand side are for illustration purposes. PBCS, polybasic cleavage site; RBM, receptor-binding motif; FP, fusion peptide. (B) Western blots of purified PVs bearing either H69V70 deletion or WT, Kappa, or Delta spikes. The sizes of protein markers are labeled to the left of the blot, and the corresponding bands are labeled to the right. (C and D) The intensity of the spike-associated bands on the western blots was densitometrically quantified (ImageJ) before the ratio was calculated for cleavage (C; S2/FL, paired t test) or spike sta- bility (D; S2/S1; one sample t test). In both (C) and (D), each dot represents one PV preparation. (E) PV bearing Delta, Kappa, or chimeric spike was used to transduce Calu3 and organoids express- ing endogenous levels of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and ACE2/TMPRSS2-overexpressing cell lines including HeLa-ACE2, Vero-ACE2/TMPRSS2, and A549-ACE2/TMPRSS2. Unpaired t test. (F) PV bearing WT, WT with Kappa NTD, and WT with Delta NTD were used to transduce Calu3 cells. In (E) and (F), mean ± SEM are shown for technical replicates (n = 2–4; two-sided unpaired Student t test). Data are representative of two to four experi- ments. ns, not significant, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001.
Article Snippet: REAGENT or RESOURCE SOURCE IDENTIFIER Antibodies Anti-ACE2 antibody R&D systems Cat#AF933; RRID:AB_355722 Rabbit anti-SARS-CoV-2 S Thermofisher Cat#PA1-41165; RRID:AB_1087210 Mouse anti-SARS-CoV-2 S1 R&D systems Cat#MAB105403 Mouse anti HIV-1 p55/p24 NIBSC Cat#ARP313 Rabbit anti-GAPDH Proteintech Cat#10494-1-AP; RRID:AB_2263076 Anti-rabbit HRP conjugate Cell Signaling Cat#7074; RRID:AB_2099233 Anti-mouse HRP conjugate Cell Signaling Cat#7076; RRID:AB_330924 Goat anti-Rabbit IgG Alexa Fluor 647 Thermofisher Cat#A21244; RRID:AB_2535812 Bacterial and virus strains XL1-blue cells Agilent Cat#200249 Biological samples Airway organoids Joo-Hyeon Lee N/A Human Sera Collier et al. (2021a) N/A Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins E64D Tocris Cat#4545 Camostat Sigma-Aldrich Cat#SML0057 Fugene HD Transfection Reagent Promega Cat#E2311 Fugene 6 Transfection Reagent Promega Cat#E2691 Critical commercial assays Bright-Glo Promega Cat#E2650 QuikChange Lightning Agilent Cat#210518 QuantiTect SYBR Green PCR Kit Qiagen Cat#204143 Experimental models: Cell lines HEK293T ATCC Cat#CRL-3216 HEK293T-TMPRSS2 Leo James N/A HEK293T-ACE2DTMPRSS2 Leo James N/A HEK293T-GFP11 Leo James N/A Vero-GFP1-10 Leo James N/A Vero-ACE2/TMPRSS2 Emma Thomson N/A Calu3 Paul Lehner N/A A549-ACE2/TMPRSS2 Massimo Palmarini N/A NCI-H1299 Simon Cook N/A HeLa-ACE2 James Voss N/A Oligonucleotides SARS-CoV-2_Delta_G156E_Fwd: AG CTGGATGGAAAGCGAGGTGTACAG CAGCGCCAACAACTG This paper N/A SARS-CoV-2_Delta_G156E_Rev: GC AGTTGTTGGCGCTGCTGTACACCT CGCTTTCCATCCAGCT This paper N/A SARS-CoV-2_Delta_D142G_Fwd: G CAACGACCCCTTCCTGGGCGTCTA CTACCACAAGAAC This paper N/A (Continued on next page) Cell Reports 40, 111220, August 16, 2022 e1
Techniques: Infection, Binding Assay, Western Blot, Labeling, Transduction