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Title: Immunogenicity and structures of a rationally designed prefusion MERS-CoV spike antigen

Abstract

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a lineage C betacoronavirus that since its emergence in 2012 has caused outbreaks in human populations with case-fatality rates of ~36%. As in other coronaviruses, the spike (S) glycoprotein of MERS-CoV mediates receptor recognition and membrane fusion and is the primary target of the humoral immune response during infection. Here we use structure-based design to develop a generalizable strategy for retaining coronavirus S proteins in the antigenically optimal prefusion conformation and demonstrate that our engineered immunogen is able to elicit high neutralizing antibody titers against MERS-CoV. We also determined high-resolution structures of the trimeric MERS-CoV S ectodomain in complex with G4, a stem-directed neutralizing antibody. The structures reveal that G4 recognizes a glycosylated loop that is variable among coronaviruses and they define four conformational states of the trimer wherein each receptor-binding domain is either tightly packed at the membrane-distal apex or rotated into a receptor-accessible conformation. As a result, our studies suggest a potential mechanism for fusion initiation through sequential receptor-binding events and provide a foundation for the structure-based design of coronavirus vaccines.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [4];  [4];  [3];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. The Scripps Research Inst., La Jolla, CA (United States)
  2. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (United States)
  3. National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD (United States)
  4. Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center, Nashville, TN (United States)
  5. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (United States); Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National Inst. of General Medical Sciences
OSTI Identifier:
1390889
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76SF00515; R01AI127521; P20GM113132; HHSN261200800001E; P41GM103393
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 114; Journal Issue: 35; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; coronavirus; neutralizing antibody; cryo-EM; X-ray; crystallography; peplomer

Citation Formats

Pallesen, Jesper, Wang, Nianshuang, Corbett, Kizzmekia S., Wrapp, Daniel, Kirchdoerfer, Robert N., Turner, Hannah L., Cottrell, Christopher A., Becker, Michelle M., Wang, Lingshu, Shi, Wei, Kong, Wing-Pui, Andres, Erica L., Kettenbach, Arminja N., Denison, Mark R., Chappell, James D., Graham, Barney S., Ward, Andrew B., and McLellan, Jason S. Immunogenicity and structures of a rationally designed prefusion MERS-CoV spike antigen. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1707304114.
Pallesen, Jesper, Wang, Nianshuang, Corbett, Kizzmekia S., Wrapp, Daniel, Kirchdoerfer, Robert N., Turner, Hannah L., Cottrell, Christopher A., Becker, Michelle M., Wang, Lingshu, Shi, Wei, Kong, Wing-Pui, Andres, Erica L., Kettenbach, Arminja N., Denison, Mark R., Chappell, James D., Graham, Barney S., Ward, Andrew B., & McLellan, Jason S. Immunogenicity and structures of a rationally designed prefusion MERS-CoV spike antigen. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707304114
Pallesen, Jesper, Wang, Nianshuang, Corbett, Kizzmekia S., Wrapp, Daniel, Kirchdoerfer, Robert N., Turner, Hannah L., Cottrell, Christopher A., Becker, Michelle M., Wang, Lingshu, Shi, Wei, Kong, Wing-Pui, Andres, Erica L., Kettenbach, Arminja N., Denison, Mark R., Chappell, James D., Graham, Barney S., Ward, Andrew B., and McLellan, Jason S. Mon . "Immunogenicity and structures of a rationally designed prefusion MERS-CoV spike antigen". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707304114. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1390889.
@article{osti_1390889,
title = {Immunogenicity and structures of a rationally designed prefusion MERS-CoV spike antigen},
author = {Pallesen, Jesper and Wang, Nianshuang and Corbett, Kizzmekia S. and Wrapp, Daniel and Kirchdoerfer, Robert N. and Turner, Hannah L. and Cottrell, Christopher A. and Becker, Michelle M. and Wang, Lingshu and Shi, Wei and Kong, Wing-Pui and Andres, Erica L. and Kettenbach, Arminja N. and Denison, Mark R. and Chappell, James D. and Graham, Barney S. and Ward, Andrew B. and McLellan, Jason S.},
abstractNote = {Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a lineage C betacoronavirus that since its emergence in 2012 has caused outbreaks in human populations with case-fatality rates of ~36%. As in other coronaviruses, the spike (S) glycoprotein of MERS-CoV mediates receptor recognition and membrane fusion and is the primary target of the humoral immune response during infection. Here we use structure-based design to develop a generalizable strategy for retaining coronavirus S proteins in the antigenically optimal prefusion conformation and demonstrate that our engineered immunogen is able to elicit high neutralizing antibody titers against MERS-CoV. We also determined high-resolution structures of the trimeric MERS-CoV S ectodomain in complex with G4, a stem-directed neutralizing antibody. The structures reveal that G4 recognizes a glycosylated loop that is variable among coronaviruses and they define four conformational states of the trimer wherein each receptor-binding domain is either tightly packed at the membrane-distal apex or rotated into a receptor-accessible conformation. As a result, our studies suggest a potential mechanism for fusion initiation through sequential receptor-binding events and provide a foundation for the structure-based design of coronavirus vaccines.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1707304114},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 35,
volume = 114,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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Exploitation of glycosylation in enveloped virus pathobiology
journal, October 2019

  • Watanabe, Yasunori; Bowden, Thomas A.; Wilson, Ian A.
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, Vol. 1863, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2019.05.012

Structural Definition of a Unique Neutralization Epitope on the Receptor-Binding Domain of MERS-CoV Spike Glycoprotein
journal, July 2018


The Chimpanzee SIV Envelope Trimer: Structure and Deployment as an HIV Vaccine Template
journal, May 2019


Structural Definition of a Neutralization-Sensitive Epitope on the MERS-CoV S1-NTD
journal, September 2019


Structure-Based Design of Prefusion-Stabilized Filovirus Glycoprotein Trimers
journal, March 2020


Molecular Characteristics, Functions, and Related Pathogenicity of MERS-CoV Proteins
journal, October 2019


X-ray Structures of the Post-fusion 6-Helix Bundle of the Human Syncytins and their Functional Implications
journal, December 2019

  • Ruigrok, Katinka; Vaney, Marie-Christine; Buchrieser, Julian
  • Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 431, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.10.020

A high-throughput inhibition assay to study MERS-CoV antibody interactions using image cytometry
journal, March 2019


Characterization of novel monoclonal antibodies against MERS-coronavirus spike protein
journal, March 2020


Global site-specific analysis of glycoprotein N-glycan processing
journal, May 2018


Structural definition of a neutralization epitope on the N-terminal domain of MERS-CoV spike glycoprotein
journal, July 2019


Structural basis for human coronavirus attachment to sialic acid receptors
journal, June 2019

  • Tortorici, M. Alejandra; Walls, Alexandra C.; Lang, Yifei
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Vol. 26, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0233-y

Structures of MERS-CoV spike glycoprotein in complex with sialoside attachment receptors
journal, December 2019

  • Park, Young-Jun; Walls, Alexandra C.; Wang, Zhaoqian
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Vol. 26, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0334-7

Stabilized coronavirus spikes are resistant to conformational changes induced by receptor recognition or proteolysis
journal, October 2018


Antibodies and vaccines against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
journal, January 2019


Structural basis of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induced by ACE2
journal, August 2020


New Vaccine Design and Delivery Technologies
journal, April 2019

  • Kanekiyo, Masaru; Ellis, Daniel; King, Neil P.
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 219, Issue Supplement_1
  • DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy745

Comparative Serological Study for the Prevalence of Anti-MERS Coronavirus Antibodies in High- and Low-Risk Groups in Qatar
journal, February 2019

  • Al Kahlout, Reham A.; Nasrallah, Gheyath K.; Farag, Elmoubasher A.
  • Journal of Immunology Research, Vol. 2019
  • DOI: 10.1155/2019/1386740

Stabilizing HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein trimers to induce neutralizing antibodies
journal, September 2018


Alternative conformations of a major antigenic site on RSV F
journal, July 2019


Chimeric Pneumoviridae fusion proteins as immunogens to induce cross‐neutralizing antibody responses
journal, December 2017

  • Olmedillas, Eduardo; Cano, Olga; Martínez, Isidoro
  • EMBO Molecular Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201708078

Recent Aspects on the Pathogenesis Mechanism, Animal Models and Novel Therapeutic Interventions for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections
journal, March 2019

  • Skariyachan, Sinosh; Challapilli, Sneha Basavaraj; Packirisamy, Swathi
  • Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 10
  • DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00569

Recent Advances in the Vaccine Development Against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus
journal, August 2019


Subunit Vaccines Against Emerging Pathogenic Human Coronaviruses
journal, February 2020


Advances in MERS-CoV Vaccines and Therapeutics Based on the Receptor-Binding Domain
journal, January 2019

  • Zhou, Yusen; Yang, Yang; Huang, Jingwei
  • Viruses, Vol. 11, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3390/v11010060

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Vaccine Candidates: Cautious Optimism
journal, January 2019

  • Schindewolf, Craig; Menachery, Vineet
  • Viruses, Vol. 11, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3390/v11010074

Moving from Empirical to Rational Vaccine Design in the ‘Omics’ Era
journal, August 2019