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Review of "Multivalency transforms SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into broad and ultrapotent neutralizers"

Reviewers: Jason Pan (NovoAb Bioanalytics) | πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜

Published onMar 23, 2022
Review of "Multivalency transforms SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into broad and ultrapotent neutralizers"
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Multivalency transforms SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into broad and ultrapotent neutralizers
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AbstractThe novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has caused a global pandemic. Antibodies are powerful biotherapeutics to fight viral infections; however, discovery of the most potent and broadly acting clones can be lengthy. Here, we used the human apoferritin protomer as a modular subunit to drive oligomerization of antibody fragments and transform antibodies targeting SARS-CoV-2 into exceptionally potent neutralizers. Using this platform, half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values as low as 9 Γ— 10βˆ’14 M were achieved as a result of up to 10,000-fold potency enhancements. Combination of three different antibody specificities and the fragment crystallizable (Fc) domain on a single multivalent molecule conferred the ability to overcome viral sequence variability together with outstanding potency and Ig-like in vivo bioavailability. This MULTi-specific, multi-Affinity antiBODY (Multabody; or MB) platform contributes a new class of medical countermeasures against COVID-19 and an efficient approach to rapidly deploy potent and broadly-acting therapeutics against infectious diseases of global health importance.One Sentence Summarymultimerization platform transforms antibodies emerging from discovery screens into potent neutralizers that can overcome SARS-CoV-2 sequence diversity.

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Since our solicitation of reviews, this preprint has been published in Nature journal and the link to the published manuscript can be found here.

Reviewer 1 (Jason Pan) | πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜

RR:C19 Strength of Evidence Scale Key

πŸ“• ◻️◻️◻️◻️ = Misleading

πŸ“™πŸ“™ ◻️◻️◻️ = Not Informative

πŸ“’πŸ“’πŸ“’ ◻️◻️ = Potentially Informative

πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜πŸ“˜ = Strong

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