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  1. Article ; Online: Conformational dynamics and allosteric modulation of the SARS-CoV-2 spike.

    Díaz-Salinas, Marco A / Li, Qi / Ejemel, Monir / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid / Luban, Jeremy / Shen, Kuang / Wang, Yang / Munro, James B

    eLife

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells through binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). This interaction is mediated by the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. Structural and ... ...

    Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells through binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). This interaction is mediated by the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. Structural and dynamic data have shown that S can adopt multiple conformations, which controls the exposure of the ACE2-binding site in the RBD. Here, using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) imaging, we report the effects of ACE2 and antibody binding on the conformational dynamics of S from the Wuhan-1 strain and in the presence of the D614G mutation. We find that D614G modulates the energetics of the RBD position in a manner similar to ACE2 binding. We also find that antibodies that target diverse epitopes, including those distal to the RBD, stabilize the RBD in a position competent for ACE2 binding. Parallel solution-based binding experiments using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) indicate antibody-mediated enhancement of ACE2 binding. These findings inform on novel strategies for therapeutic antibody cocktails.
    MeSH term(s) Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2/chemistry ; COVID-19 ; Humans ; Protein Domains ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/chemistry
    Chemical Substances Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus ; spike protein, SARS-CoV-2 ; ACE2 protein, human (EC 3.4.17.23) ; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (EC 3.4.17.23)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2687154-3
    ISSN 2050-084X ; 2050-084X
    ISSN (online) 2050-084X
    ISSN 2050-084X
    DOI 10.7554/eLife.75433
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  2. Article: S:D614G and S:H655Y are gateway mutations that act epistatically to promote SARS-CoV-2 variant fitness.

    Yurkovetskiy, Leonid / Egri, Shawn / Kurhade, Chaitanya / Diaz-Salinas, Marco A / Jaimes, Javier A / Nyalile, Thomas / Xie, Xuping / Choudhary, Manish C / Dauphin, Ann / Li, Jonathan Z / Munro, James B / Shi, Pei-Yong / Shen, Kuang / Luban, Jeremy

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: SARS-CoV-2 variants bearing complex combinations of mutations that confer increased transmissibility, COVID-19 severity, and immune escape, were first detected after S:D614G had gone to fixation, and likely originated during persistent infection of ... ...

    Abstract SARS-CoV-2 variants bearing complex combinations of mutations that confer increased transmissibility, COVID-19 severity, and immune escape, were first detected after S:D614G had gone to fixation, and likely originated during persistent infection of immunocompromised hosts. To test the hypothesis that S:D614G facilitated emergence of such variants, S:D614G was reverted to the ancestral sequence in the context of sequential Spike sequences from an immunocompromised individual, and within each of the major SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. In all cases, infectivity of the S:D614G revertants was severely compromised. The infectivity of atypical SARS-CoV-2 lineages that propagated in the absence of S:D614G was found to be dependent upon either S:Q613H or S:H655Y. Notably, Gamma and Omicron variants possess both S:D614G and S:H655Y, each of which contributed to infectivity of these variants. Among sarbecoviruses, S:Q613H, S:D614G, and S:H655Y are only detected in SARS-CoV-2, which is also distinguished by a polybasic S1/S2 cleavage site. Genetic and biochemical experiments here showed that S:Q613H, S:D614G, and S:H655Y each stabilize Spike on virions, and that they are dispensable in the absence of S1/S2 cleavage, consistent with selection of these mutations by the S1/S2 cleavage site. CryoEM revealed that either S:D614G or S:H655Y shift the Spike receptor binding domain (RBD) towards the open conformation required for ACE2-binding and therefore on pathway for infection. Consistent with this, an smFRET reporter for RBD conformation showed that both S:D614G and S:H655Y spontaneously adopt the conformation that ACE2 induces in the parental Spike. Data from these orthogonal experiments demonstrate that S:D614G and S:H655Y are convergent adaptations to the polybasic S1/S2 cleavage site which stabilize S1 on the virion in the open RBD conformation and act epistatically to promote the fitness of variants bearing complex combinations of clinically significant mutations.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.03.30.535005
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  3. Article: Conformational dynamics and allosteric modulation of the SARS-CoV-2 spike.

    Díaz-Salinas, Marco A / Li, Qi / Ejemel, Monir / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid / Luban, Jeremy / Shen, Kuang / Wang, Yang / Munro, James B

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2021  

    Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells through binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). This interaction is mediated by the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. Structural and ... ...

    Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells through binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). This interaction is mediated by the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. Structural and dynamic data have shown that S can adopt multiple conformations, which controls the exposure of the ACE2-binding site in the RBD. Here, using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) imaging we report the effects of ACE2 and antibody binding on the conformational dynamics of S from the Wuhan-1 strain and the B.1 variant (D614G). We find that D614G modulates the energetics of the RBD position in a manner similar to ACE2 binding. We also find that antibodies that target diverse epitopes, including those distal to the RBD, stabilize the RBD in a position competent for ACE2 binding. Parallel solution-based binding experiments using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) indicate antibody-mediated enhancement of ACE2 binding. These findings inform on novel strategies for therapeutic antibody cocktails.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2021.10.29.466470
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  4. Article ; Online: Conformational dynamics and allosteric modulation of the SARS-CoV-2 spike

    Marco A Díaz-Salinas / Qi Li / Monir Ejemel / Leonid Yurkovetskiy / Jeremy Luban / Kuang Shen / Yang Wang / James B Munro

    eLife, Vol

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells through binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). This interaction is mediated by the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. Structural and ... ...

    Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells through binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). This interaction is mediated by the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) glycoprotein. Structural and dynamic data have shown that S can adopt multiple conformations, which controls the exposure of the ACE2-binding site in the RBD. Here, using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) imaging, we report the effects of ACE2 and antibody binding on the conformational dynamics of S from the Wuhan-1 strain and in the presence of the D614G mutation. We find that D614G modulates the energetics of the RBD position in a manner similar to ACE2 binding. We also find that antibodies that target diverse epitopes, including those distal to the RBD, stabilize the RBD in a position competent for ACE2 binding. Parallel solution-based binding experiments using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) indicate antibody-mediated enhancement of ACE2 binding. These findings inform on novel strategies for therapeutic antibody cocktails.
    Keywords virus entry ; protein dynamics ; single-molecule biophysics ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 570
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
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  5. Article ; Online: Analysis of 6.4 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes identifies mutations associated with fitness.

    Obermeyer, Fritz / Jankowiak, Martin / Barkas, Nikolaos / Schaffner, Stephen F / Pyle, Jesse D / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid / Bosso, Matteo / Park, Daniel J / Babadi, Mehrtash / MacInnis, Bronwyn L / Luban, Jeremy / Sabeti, Pardis C / Lemieux, Jacob E

    Science (New York, N.Y.)

    2022  Volume 376, Issue 6599, Page(s) 1327–1332

    Abstract: Repeated emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants with increased fitness underscores the value of rapid detection and characterization of new lineages. We have developed ... ...

    Abstract Repeated emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants with increased fitness underscores the value of rapid detection and characterization of new lineages. We have developed PyR
    MeSH term(s) Bayes Theorem ; COVID-19/virology ; Genetic Fitness ; Genome, Viral ; Humans ; Mutation ; Regression Analysis ; SARS-CoV-2/genetics ; Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/chemistry ; Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus/genetics
    Chemical Substances Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus ; spike protein, SARS-CoV-2
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 128410-1
    ISSN 1095-9203 ; 0036-8075
    ISSN (online) 1095-9203
    ISSN 0036-8075
    DOI 10.1126/science.abm1208
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  6. Article ; Online: Microbiota-dependent proteolysis of gluten subverts diet-mediated protection against type 1 diabetes.

    Funsten, Matthew C / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid A / Kuznetsov, Andrey / Reiman, Derek / Hansen, Camilla H F / Senter, Katharine I / Lee, Jean / Ratiu, Jeremy / Dahal-Koirala, Shiva / Antonopoulos, Dionysios A / Dunny, Gary M / Sollid, Ludvig M / Serreze, David / Khan, Aly A / Chervonsky, Alexander V

    Cell host & microbe

    2023  Volume 31, Issue 2, Page(s) 213–227.e9

    Abstract: Diet and commensals can affect the development of autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, whether dietary interventions are microbe-mediated was unclear. We found that a diet based on hydrolyzed casein (HC) as a protein source protects ... ...

    Abstract Diet and commensals can affect the development of autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, whether dietary interventions are microbe-mediated was unclear. We found that a diet based on hydrolyzed casein (HC) as a protein source protects non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice in conventional and germ-free (GF) conditions via improvement in the physiology of insulin-producing cells to reduce autoimmune activation. The addition of gluten (a cereal protein complex associated with celiac disease) facilitates autoimmunity dependent on microbial proteolysis of gluten: T1D develops in GF animals monocolonized with Enterococcus faecalis harboring secreted gluten-digesting proteases but not in mice colonized with protease deficient bacteria. Gluten digestion by E. faecalis generates T cell-activating peptides and promotes innate immunity by enhancing macrophage reactivity to lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Gnotobiotic NOD Toll4-negative mice monocolonized with E. faecalis on an HC + gluten diet are resistant to T1D. These findings provide insights into strategies to develop dietary interventions to help protect humans against autoimmunity.
    MeSH term(s) Mice ; Animals ; Humans ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/prevention & control ; Glutens ; Mice, Inbred NOD ; Proteolysis ; Diet ; Microbiota
    Chemical Substances Glutens (8002-80-0)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2278004-X
    ISSN 1934-6069 ; 1931-3128
    ISSN (online) 1934-6069
    ISSN 1931-3128
    DOI 10.1016/j.chom.2022.12.009
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  7. Article ; Online: Cutting Edge: Commensal Microbiota Has Disparate Effects on Manifestations of Polyglandular Autoimmune Inflammation.

    Hansen, Camilla H F / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid A / Chervonsky, Alexander V

    Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

    2016  Volume 197, Issue 3, Page(s) 701–705

    Abstract: Polyglandular autoimmune inflammation accompanies type 1 diabetes (T1D) in NOD mice, affecting organs like thyroid and salivary glands. Although commensals are not required for T1D progression, germ-free (GF) mice had a very low degree of sialitis, which ...

    Abstract Polyglandular autoimmune inflammation accompanies type 1 diabetes (T1D) in NOD mice, affecting organs like thyroid and salivary glands. Although commensals are not required for T1D progression, germ-free (GF) mice had a very low degree of sialitis, which was restored by colonization with select microbial lineages. Moreover, unlike T1D, which is blocked in mice lacking MyD88 signaling adaptor under conventional, but not GF, housing conditions, sialitis did not develop in MyD88(-/-) GF mice. Thus, microbes and MyD88-dependent signaling are critical for sialitis development. The severity of sialitis did not correlate with the degree of insulitis in the same animal and was less sensitive to a T1D-reducing diet, but it was similar to T1D with regard to microbiota-dependent sexual dimorphism. The unexpected distinction in requirements for the microbiota for different autoimmune pathologies within the same organism is crucial for understanding the nature of microbial involvement in complex autoimmune disorders, including human autoimmune polyglandular syndromes.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/microbiology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Female ; Germ-Free Life ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred NOD ; Mice, Knockout ; Microbiota/physiology ; Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88/immunology ; Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune/microbiology ; Sex Characteristics ; Sialadenitis/microbiology
    Chemical Substances Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-08-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3056-9
    ISSN 1550-6606 ; 0022-1767 ; 1048-3233 ; 1047-7381
    ISSN (online) 1550-6606
    ISSN 0022-1767 ; 1048-3233 ; 1047-7381
    DOI 10.4049/jimmunol.1502465
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  8. Article ; Online: Microbiota and autoimmunity: exploring new avenues.

    Yurkovetskiy, Leonid A / Pickard, Joseph M / Chervonsky, Alexander V

    Cell host & microbe

    2015  Volume 17, Issue 5, Page(s) 548–552

    Abstract: Given the recognized role of the commensal microbiota in regulating host immunity to pathogens, it is not surprising that microbiota are also capable of regulating autoimmune responses. The underlying mechanisms of autoimmune regulation by the microbiota ...

    Abstract Given the recognized role of the commensal microbiota in regulating host immunity to pathogens, it is not surprising that microbiota are also capable of regulating autoimmune responses. The underlying mechanisms of autoimmune regulation by the microbiota are just beginning to emerge. Here, we discuss possible pressure points toward the development of autoimmune diseases that can be influenced by the microbiota. Besides acting on the adaptive and innate arms of the immune response, the microbiota can affect the targets of autoimmunity directly, even during development in utero, and be involved in regulation of autoimmunity via interactions with hormones.
    MeSH term(s) Adaptive Immunity ; Autoimmune Diseases/pathology ; Autoimmunity ; Immunity, Innate ; Microbiota
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-03-27
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2278004-X
    ISSN 1934-6069 ; 1931-3128
    ISSN (online) 1934-6069
    ISSN 1931-3128
    DOI 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.010
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  9. Article ; Online: Deep generative models predict SARS-CoV-2 Spike infectivity and foreshadow neutralizing antibody escape

    Youssef, Noor / Ghantous, Fadi / Gurev, Sarah / Brock, Kelly / Jaimes, Javier A. / Dauphin, Ann / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid / Soto, Daria / Estanboulieh, Ralph / Kotzen, Ben / Bosso, Matteo / Lemieux, Jacob / Luban, Jeremy / Seaman, Michael S. / Marks, Debora S.

    bioRxiv

    Abstract: Recurrent waves of SARS-CoV-2 infection, driven by the periodic emergence of new viral variants, highlight the need for vaccines and therapeutics that remain effective against future strains. Yet, our ability to proactively evaluate such therapeutics is ... ...

    Abstract Recurrent waves of SARS-CoV-2 infection, driven by the periodic emergence of new viral variants, highlight the need for vaccines and therapeutics that remain effective against future strains. Yet, our ability to proactively evaluate such therapeutics is limited to assessing their effectiveness against previous or circulating variants, which may differ significantly in their antibody escape from future viral evolution. To address this challenge, we developed deep learning methods to predict the effect of mutations on fitness and escape from neutralizing antibodies and used this information to engineer a set of 68 unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins. The designed constructs, which incorporated novel combinations of up to 46 mutations relative to the ancestral strain, were infectious and evaded neutralization by nine well-characterized panels of human polyclonal anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune sera. Designed constructs on previous SARS-CoV-2 strains anticipated the antibody neutralization escape of variants seen subsequently during the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that designed Spike constructs using data available at the time of the implementation of the 2022 bivalent mRNA booster vaccine foretold the level of neutralizing antibody escape observed in the most recently emerging variants. Our approach provides extensive datasets of antigenically diverse escape variants to evaluate the protective ability of vaccines and therapeutics to inhibit future variants. This approach is generalizable to other viral pathogen
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-10
    Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1101/2023.10.08.561389
    Database COVID19

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  10. Article ; Online: Deep generative models predict SARS-CoV-2 Spike infectivity and foreshadow neutralizing antibody escape

    Youssef, Noor A / Ghantous, Fadi / Gurev, Sarah / Brock, Kelly / Jaimes, Javier A. / Dauphin, Ann / Yurkovetskiy, Leonid / Soto, Daria / Estaboulieh, Ralph / Kotzen, Ben / Bosso, Matteo / Lemieux, Jacob / Luban, Jeremy A. / Seaman, Michael / Marks, Debora

    bioRxiv

    Abstract: Recurrent waves of SARS-CoV-2 infection, driven by the periodic emergence of new viral variants, highlight the need for vaccines and therapeutics that remain effective against future strains. Yet, our ability to proactively evaluate such therapeutics is ... ...

    Abstract Recurrent waves of SARS-CoV-2 infection, driven by the periodic emergence of new viral variants, highlight the need for vaccines and therapeutics that remain effective against future strains. Yet, our ability to proactively evaluate such therapeutics is limited to assessing their effectiveness against previous or circulating variants, which may differ significantly in their antibody escape from future viral evolution. To address this challenge, we developed deep learning methods to predict the effect of mutations on fitness and escape from neutralizing antibodies and used this information to engineer a set of 68 unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins. The designed constructs, which incorporated novel combinations of up to 46 mutations relative to the ancestral strain, were infectious and evaded neutralization by nine well-characterized panels of human polyclonal anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune sera. Designed constructs on previous SARS-CoV-2 strains anticipated the antibody neutralization escape of variants seen subsequently during the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that designed Spike constructs using data available at the time of the implementation of the 2022 bivalent mRNA booster vaccine foretold the level of neutralizing antibody escape observed in the most recently emerging variants. Our approach provides extensive datasets of antigenically diverse escape variants to evaluate the protective ability of vaccines and therapeutics to inhibit future variants. This approach is generalizable to other viral pathogen
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-10
    Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1101/2023.10.08.561389
    Database COVID19

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