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SARS-CoV-2 growth, furin-cleavage-site adaptation and neutralization using serum from acutely infected hospitalized COVID-19 patients
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged at the end of 2019 and by mid-June 2020 the virus had spread to at least 215 countries, caused more than 8 000 000 confirmed infections and over 450 000 deaths, and overwhelmed healthcare systems worldwide. Like severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which emerged in 2002 and caused a similar disease, SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus. Both viruses use human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) as a receptor to enter cells. However, the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) glycoprotein has a novel insertion that generates a putative furin cleavage signal and this has been postulated to expand the host range. Two low-passage (P) strains of SARS-CoV-2 (Wash1 : P4 and Munich : P1) were cultured twice in Vero E6 cells and characterized virologically. Sanger and MinION sequencing demonstrated significant deletions in the furin cleavage signal of Wash1 : P6 and minor variants in the Munich : P3 strain. Cleavage of the S glycoprotein in SARS-CoV-2-infected Vero E6 cell lysates was inefficient even when an intact furin cleavage signal was present. Indirect immunofluorescence demonstrated that the S glycoprotein reached the cell surface. Since the S protein is a major antigenic target for the development of neutralizing antibodies, we investigated the development of neutralizing antibody titres in serial serum samples obtained from COVID-19 human patients. These were comparable regardless of the presence of an intact or deleted furin cleavage signal. These studies illustrate the need to characterize virus stocks meticulously prior to performing either in vitro or in vivo pathogenesis studies.
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“Recombinant viruses and B.1.1.7 were propagated in Vero-TMPRSS2 and Vero-hACE2-TMPRSS2 cells expressing transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2) and human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) to prevent the development of adventitious mutations in the spike, especially at or near the furin cleavage site”
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- Authors
- Klimstra, W. B., Tilston-Lunel, N. L., Nambulli, S., Boslett, J., McMillen, C. M., Gilliland, T., Dunn, M. D., Sun, C., Wheeler, S. E., Wells, A., Hartman, A. L., McElroy, A. K., Reed, D. S., Rennick, L. J., & Duprex, W. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Corresponding author
- Klimstra, William B.
- Duprex, W. Paul
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of General Virology
- Publisher
- Microbiology Society
- Published
- 2020-11-01
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1156-1169
- ISSN
- 0022-1317 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-2099
- PMC
- PMC7879561
- OpenAlex
- W3081204841
- Cited by
- 137
- References
- 69
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- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 13
- FWCI
- 4.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
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- Journal of General Virology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh
- Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh
- University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- DSF Charitable Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (AI060525)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Keywords
- SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 pandemic, furin cleavage site, spike protein, viral growth, neutralizing antibodies, host range, SARS-CoV, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
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