- Title
- Generation and Effect Testing of a SARS-CoV-2 RBD-Targeted Polyclonal Therapeutic Antibody Based on a 2-D Airway Organoid Screening System
- Creator
- He, Yunjiao; Qu, Jing; Luo, Guxun; Zhang, Yiyun; Xiang, Qi; Fu, Yang; Li, Shuo; Fan, Yunping; Fang, Shisong; Wang, Peng; Li, Liang; Wei, Lan; Liao, Shumin; Zheng, Nianzhen; Liu, Yingzi; Wang, Xingyun; Jing, Yue; Shen, Clifton Kwang-Fu; Ji, Chong
- Relation
- Frontiers in Immunology Vol. 12, no. 689065
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.689065
- Publisher
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The US FDA has approved several therapeutics and vaccines worldwide through the emergency use authorization in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19. Nevertheless, the efficacies of these treatments are being challenged by viral escape mutations. There is an urgent need to develop effective treatments protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection and to establish a stable effect-screening model to test potential drugs. Polyclonal antibodies (pAbs) have an intrinsic advantage in such developments because they can target rapidly mutating viral strains as a result of the complexity of their binding epitopes. In this study, we generated anti–receptor-binding domain (anti-RBD) pAbs from rabbit serum and tested their safety and efficacy in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection both in vivo and ex vivo. Primary human bronchial epithelial two-dimensional (2-D) organoids were cultured and differentiated to a mature morphology and subsequently employed for SARS-CoV-2 infection and drug screening. The pAbs protected the airway organoids from viral infection and tissue damage. Potential side effects were tested in mouse models for both inhalation and vein injection. The pAbs displayed effective viral neutralization effects without significant side effects. Thus, the use of animal immune serum–derived pAbs might be a potential therapy for protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection, with the strategy developed to produce these pAbs providing new insight into the treatment of respiratory tract infections, especially for infections with viruses undergoing rapid mutation.
- Subject
- SARS-CoV-2; viral infection; polyclonal antibody; airway organoids; receptor-binding domain; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1492237
- Identifier
- uon:53281
- Identifier
- ISSN:1664-3224
- Rights
- © 2021 He, Qu, Wei, Liao, Zheng, Liu, Wang, Jing, Shen, Ji, Luo, Zhang, Xiang, Fu, Li, Fan, Fang, Wang and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Language
- eng
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