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Van Puyvelde B, Van Uytfanghe K, Tytgat O, Van Oudenhove L, Gabriels R, Bouwmeester R, Daled S, Van Den Bossche T, Ramasamy P, Verhelst S, De Clerck L, Corveleyn L, Willems S, Debunne N, Wynendaele E, De Spiegeleer B, Judak P, Roels K, De Wilde L, Van Eenoo P, Reyns T, Cherlet M, Dumont E, Debyser G, t'Kindt R, Sandra K, Gupta S, Drouin N, Harms A, Hankemeier T, Jones DJL, Gupta P, Lane D, Lane CS, El Ouadi S, Vincendet JB, Morrice N, Oehrle S, Tanna N, Silvester S, Hannam S, Sigloch FC, Bhangu-Uhlmann A, Claereboudt J, Anderson NL, Razavi M, Degroeve S, Cuypers L, Stove C, Lagrou K, Martens GA, Deforce D, Martens L, Vissers JPC, Dhaenens M. Cov-MS: A Community-Based Template Assay for Mass-Spectrometry-Based Protein Detection in SARS-CoV-2 Patients. JACS Au 2021. [PMID: 34254058 DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.18.20231688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Rising population density and global mobility are among the reasons why pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread so rapidly across the globe. The policy response to such pandemics will always have to include accurate monitoring of the spread, as this provides one of the few alternatives to total lockdown. However, COVID-19 diagnosis is currently performed almost exclusively by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Although this is efficient, automatable, and acceptably cheap, reliance on one type of technology comes with serious caveats, as illustrated by recurring reagent and test shortages. We therefore developed an alternative diagnostic test that detects proteolytically digested SARS-CoV-2 proteins using mass spectrometry (MS). We established the Cov-MS consortium, consisting of 15 academic laboratories and several industrial partners to increase applicability, accessibility, sensitivity, and robustness of this kind of SARS-CoV-2 detection. This, in turn, gave rise to the Cov-MS Digital Incubator that allows other laboratories to join the effort, navigate, and share their optimizations and translate the assay into their clinic. As this test relies on viral proteins instead of RNA, it provides an orthogonal and complementary approach to RT-PCR using other reagents that are relatively inexpensive and widely available, as well as orthogonally skilled personnel and different instruments. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD022550.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bart Van Puyvelde
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Bioanalysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Olivier Tytgat
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Life Science Technologies, Imec, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Robbin Bouwmeester
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Simon Daled
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Tim Van Den Bossche
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Pathmanaban Ramasamy
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
- Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB/VUB, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
| | - Sigrid Verhelst
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Laura De Clerck
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Laura Corveleyn
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Drug Quality and Registration Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Drug Quality and Registration Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Drug Quality and Registration Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Doping Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Kris Roels
- Doping Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Laurie De Wilde
- Doping Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Peter Van Eenoo
- Doping Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Tim Reyns
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Marc Cherlet
- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Emmie Dumont
- Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Griet Debyser
- Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Ruben t'Kindt
- Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Koen Sandra
- Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Surya Gupta
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Nicolas Drouin
- Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, 2311 G Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Amy Harms
- Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, 2311 G Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Thomas Hankemeier
- Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, 2311 G Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leicester Cancer Research Centre, RKCSB, University of Leicester, U.K., and John and Lucille van Geest Biomarker Facility, Cardiovascular Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
| | - Pankaj Gupta
- The Department of Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Diseases, Level 4, Sandringham Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
| | - Dan Lane
- The Department of Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Diseases, Level 4, Sandringham Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
| | | | - Said El Ouadi
- AB Sciex, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | | | - Nick Morrice
- AB Sciex, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | - Stuart Oehrle
- Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts 01757, United States
| | - Nikunj Tanna
- Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts 01757, United States
| | - Steve Silvester
- Alderley Analytical, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | - Sally Hannam
- Alderley Analytical, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
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- SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc., Washington, D.C. 20009, United States
| | - Morteza Razavi
- SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc., Washington, D.C. 20009, United States
| | - Sven Degroeve
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Lize Cuypers
- Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
| | - Christophe Stove
- Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Bioanalysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Katrien Lagrou
- Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
| | - Geert A Martens
- AZ Delta Medical Laboratories, AZ Delta General Hospital, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium
| | - Dieter Deforce
- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Lennart Martens
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
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- ProGenTomics, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Van Puyvelde B, Van Uytfanghe K, Tytgat O, Van Oudenhove L, Gabriels R, Bouwmeester R, Daled S, Van Den Bossche T, Ramasamy P, Verhelst S, De Clerck L, Corveleyn L, Willems S, Debunne N, Wynendaele E, De Spiegeleer B, Judak P, Roels K, De Wilde L, Van Eenoo P, Reyns T, Cherlet M, Dumont E, Debyser G, t’Kindt R, Sandra K, Gupta S, Drouin N, Harms A, Hankemeier T, Jones DJL, Gupta P, Lane D, Lane CS, El Ouadi S, Vincendet JB, Morrice N, Oehrle S, Tanna N, Silvester S, Hannam S, Sigloch FC, Bhangu-Uhlmann A, Claereboudt J, Anderson NL, Razavi M, Degroeve S, Cuypers L, Stove C, Lagrou K, Martens GA, Deforce D, Martens L, Vissers JPC, Dhaenens M. Cov-MS: A Community-Based Template Assay for Mass-Spectrometry-Based Protein Detection in SARS-CoV-2 Patients. JACS Au 2021; 1:750-765. [PMID: 34254058 PMCID: PMC8230961 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Rising population density and global mobility are among the reasons why pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread so rapidly across the globe. The policy response to such pandemics will always have to include accurate monitoring of the spread, as this provides one of the few alternatives to total lockdown. However, COVID-19 diagnosis is currently performed almost exclusively by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Although this is efficient, automatable, and acceptably cheap, reliance on one type of technology comes with serious caveats, as illustrated by recurring reagent and test shortages. We therefore developed an alternative diagnostic test that detects proteolytically digested SARS-CoV-2 proteins using mass spectrometry (MS). We established the Cov-MS consortium, consisting of 15 academic laboratories and several industrial partners to increase applicability, accessibility, sensitivity, and robustness of this kind of SARS-CoV-2 detection. This, in turn, gave rise to the Cov-MS Digital Incubator that allows other laboratories to join the effort, navigate, and share their optimizations and translate the assay into their clinic. As this test relies on viral proteins instead of RNA, it provides an orthogonal and complementary approach to RT-PCR using other reagents that are relatively inexpensive and widely available, as well as orthogonally skilled personnel and different instruments. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD022550.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bart Van Puyvelde
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Katleen Van Uytfanghe
- Laboratory
of Toxicology, Department of Bioanalysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Olivier Tytgat
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Life Science Technologies, Imec, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
| | | | - Ralf Gabriels
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Robbin Bouwmeester
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Simon Daled
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Tim Van Den Bossche
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Pathmanaban Ramasamy
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
- Interuniversity
Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB/VUB, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
| | - Sigrid Verhelst
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Laura De Clerck
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Laura Corveleyn
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Sander Willems
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Nathan Debunne
- Drug Quality and Registration Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Evelien Wynendaele
- Drug Quality and Registration Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Bart De Spiegeleer
- Drug Quality and Registration Group, Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Peter Judak
- Doping
Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Kris Roels
- Doping
Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Laurie De Wilde
- Doping
Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Peter Van Eenoo
- Doping
Control Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Tim Reyns
- Department
of Clinical Chemistry, Ghent University
Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Marc Cherlet
- Department
of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Ghent University 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Emmie Dumont
- Research Institute for Chromatography
(RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Griet Debyser
- Research Institute for Chromatography
(RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Ruben t’Kindt
- Research Institute for Chromatography
(RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Koen Sandra
- Research Institute for Chromatography
(RIC), 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
| | - Surya Gupta
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Nicolas Drouin
- Division
of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Leiden Academic
Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, 2311 G Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Amy Harms
- Division
of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Leiden Academic
Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, 2311 G Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Thomas Hankemeier
- Division
of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Leiden Academic
Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, 2311 G Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Donald J. L. Jones
- Leicester
Cancer Research Centre, RKCSB, University of Leicester, U.K., and
John and Lucille van Geest Biomarker Facility, Cardiovascular Research
Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
| | - Pankaj Gupta
- The
Department of Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Diseases, Level 4,
Sandringham Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
| | - Dan Lane
- The
Department of Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Diseases, Level 4,
Sandringham Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
| | | | - Said El Ouadi
- AB Sciex, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | | | - Nick Morrice
- AB Sciex, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | - Stuart Oehrle
- Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts 01757, United States
| | - Nikunj Tanna
- Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts 01757, United States
| | - Steve Silvester
- Alderley Analytical, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | - Sally Hannam
- Alderley Analytical, Alderley Park, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, United Kingdom
| | | | | | | | - N. Leigh Anderson
- SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc., Washington, D.C. 20009, United States
| | - Morteza Razavi
- SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc., Washington, D.C. 20009, United States
| | - Sven Degroeve
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | - Lize Cuypers
- Clinical
Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
| | - Christophe Stove
- Laboratory
of Toxicology, Department of Bioanalysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Katrien Lagrou
- Clinical
Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
| | - Geert A. Martens
- AZ
Delta Medical Laboratories, AZ Delta General
Hospital, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium
| | - Dieter Deforce
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
| | - Lennart Martens
- VIB-UGent
Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent Belgium
| | | | - Maarten Dhaenens
- ProGenTomics,
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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