Paired heavy and light chain signatures contribute to potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralization in public antibody responses

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Bailey B. Banach

Gabriele Cerutti

Ahmed S. Fahad

Chen-Hsiang Shen

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Pengfei Wang

Manoj S. Nair

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Yaoxing Huang

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Irene M. Francino Urdániz

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Paul J Steiner

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Matias Gutiérrez-González

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Lihong Liu

Sheila N. LĂłpez Acevedo

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Alexandra Nazzari

Jacy R. Wolfe

Yang Luo

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Adam S. Olia

I-Ting Teng

Jian Yu

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Tongqing Zhou

Eswar R. Reddem

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Jude Bimela

Xiaoli Pan

Bharat Madan

Amy D. Laflin

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Rajani Nimrania

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Kwon-Tung Yuen

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Timothy A. Whitehead

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David D Ho

Peter D. Kwong

Lawrence Shapiro

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Understanding protective mechanisms of antibody recognition can inform vaccine and therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2. We discovered a new antibody, 910-30, that targets the SARS-CoV-2 ACE2 receptor binding site as a member of a public antibody response encoded by IGHV3-53/IGHV3-66 genes. We performed sequence and structural analyses to explore how antibody features correlate with SARS-CoV-2 neutralization. Cryo-EM structures of 910-30 bound to the SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer revealed its binding interactions and ability to disassemble spike. Despite heavy chain sequence similarity, biophysical analyses of IGHV3-53/3-66 antibodies highlighted the importance of native heavy:light pairings for ACE2 binding competition and for SARS-CoV-2 neutralization. We defined paired heavy:light sequence signatures and determined antibody precursor prevalence to be ~1 in 44,000 human B cells, consistent with public antibody identification in several convalescent COVID-19 patients. These data reveal key structural and functional neutralization features in the IGHV3-53/3-66 public antibody class to accelerate antibody-based medical interventions against SARS-CoV-2. HighlightsO_LIA molecular study of IGHV3-53/3-66 public antibody responses reveals critical heavy and light chain features for potent neutralization C_LIO_LICryo-EM analyses detail the structure of a novel public antibody class member, antibody 910-30, in complex with SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer C_LIO_LICryo-EM data reveal that 910-30 can both bind assembled trimer and can disassemble the SARS-CoV-2 spike C_LIO_LISequence-structure-function signatures defined for IGHV3-53/3-66 class antibodies including both heavy and light chains C_LIO_LIIGHV3-53/3-66 class precursors have a prevalence of 1:44,000 B cells in healthy human antibody repertoires C_LI

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