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Maisonnasse P, Aldon Y, Marc A, Marlin R, Dereuddre-Bosquet N, Kuzmina NA, Freyn AW, Snitselaar JL, Gonçalves A, Caniels TG, Burger JA, Poniman M, Chesnais V, Diry S, Iershov A, Ronk AJ, Jangra S, Rathnasinghe R, Brouwer P, Bijl T, van Schooten J, Brinkkemper M, Liu H, Yuan M, Mire CE, van Breemen MJ, Contreras V, Naninck T, Lemaître J, Kahlaoui N, Relouzat F, Chapon C, Ho Tsong Fang R, McDanal C, Osei-Twum M, St-Amant N, Gagnon L, Montefiori DC, Wilson IA, Ginoux E, de Bree GJ, García-Sastre A, Schotsaert M, Coughlan L, Bukreyev A, van der Werf S, Guedj J, Sanders RW, van Gils MJ, Le Grand R. COVA1-18 neutralizing antibody protects against SARS-CoV-2 in three preclinical models. Res Sq 2021:rs.3.rs-235272. [PMID: 33619476 PMCID: PMC7899470 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-235272/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
One year into the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), effective treatments are still needed 1-3 . Monoclonal antibodies, given alone or as part of a therapeutic cocktail, have shown promising results in patients, raising the hope that they could play an important role in preventing clinical deterioration in severely ill or in exposed, high risk individuals 4-6 . Here, we evaluated the prophylactic and therapeutic effect of COVA1-18 in vivo , a neutralizing antibody isolated from a convalescent patient 7 and highly potent against the B.1.1.7. isolate 8,9 . In both prophylactic and therapeutic settings, SARS-CoV-2 remained undetectable in the lungs of COVA1-18 treated hACE2 mice. Therapeutic treatment also caused a dramatic reduction in viral loads in the lungs of Syrian hamsters. When administered at 10 mg kg - 1 one day prior to a high dose SARS-CoV-2 challenge in cynomolgus macaques, COVA1-18 had a very strong antiviral activity in the upper respiratory compartments with an estimated reduction in viral infectivity of more than 95%, and prevented lymphopenia and extensive lung lesions. Modelling and experimental findings demonstrate that COVA1-18 has a strong antiviral activity in three different preclinical models and could be a valuable candidate for further clinical evaluation.
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Affiliation(s)
- P Maisonnasse
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - Y Aldon
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - A Marc
- Université de Paris, INSERM, IAME, F-75018 Paris, France
| | - R Marlin
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - N Dereuddre-Bosquet
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - N A Kuzmina
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA
- Galveston National Laboratory, Texas, USA
| | - A W Freyn
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
| | - J L Snitselaar
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - A Gonçalves
- Université de Paris, INSERM, IAME, F-75018 Paris, France
| | - T G Caniels
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - M Poniman
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - V Chesnais
- Life and Soft, 92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France
| | - S Diry
- Life and Soft, 92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France
| | - A Iershov
- Life and Soft, 92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France
| | - A J Ronk
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA
- Galveston National Laboratory, Texas, USA
| | - S Jangra
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
| | - R Rathnasinghe
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
| | - Pjm Brouwer
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Tpl Bijl
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - J van Schooten
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - M Brinkkemper
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - H Liu
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
| | - M Yuan
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
| | - C E Mire
- Galveston National Laboratory, Texas, USA
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA
| | - M J van Breemen
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - V Contreras
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - T Naninck
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - J Lemaître
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - N Kahlaoui
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - F Relouzat
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - C Chapon
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - R Ho Tsong Fang
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
| | - C McDanal
- Duke Human Vaccine Institute & Department of Surgery, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute & Department of Surgery, Durham, NC 27710, USA
| | - I A Wilson
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
| | - E Ginoux
- Life and Soft, 92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France
| | - G J de Bree
- Internal Medicine of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - A García-Sastre
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
- The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
- Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
| | - M Schotsaert
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
- Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (NY), USA
- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), 685 W. Baltimore Street, HSF1, Office #380E, Baltimore, MD 21201
| | - A Bukreyev
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA
- Galveston National Laboratory, Texas, USA
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA
| | - S van der Werf
- Molecular Genetics of RNA Viruses, Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR 3569, Université de Paris, Paris, France
- National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
| | - J Guedj
- Université de Paris, INSERM, IAME, F-75018 Paris, France
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- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
| | - M J van Gils
- Departments of Medical Microbiology of the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - R Le Grand
- Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CEA, Center for Immunology of Viral, Auto-immune, Hematological and Bacterial diseases (IMVA-HB/IDMIT), Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
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