Ramage, Walter, Gaiotto, Tiziano, Ball, Christina, Risley, Paul, Carnell, George William, Temperton, Nigel J., Cheung, Chung, Engelhardt, Othmar G., Hufton, Simon (2019) Cross-Reactive and Lineage-Specific Single Domain Antibodies against Influenza B Hemagglutinin. Antibodies, 8 (1). Article Number 14. E-ISSN 2073-4468. (doi:10.3390/antib8010014) (KAR id:72273)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/antib8010014 |
Abstract
Influenza B virus (IBV) circulates in the human population and causes considerable disease burden worldwide, each year. Current IBV vaccines can struggle to mount an effective cross-reactive immune response, as strains become mismatched, due to constant antigenic changes. Additional strategies which use monoclonal antibodies, with broad reactivity, are of considerable interest, both, as diagnostics and as immunotherapeutics. Alternatives to conventional monoclonal antibodies, such as single domain antibodies (NanobodiesTM) with well-documented advantages for applications in infectious disease, have been emerging. In this study we have isolated single domain antibodies (sdAbs), specific to IBV, using alpacas immunised with recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) from two representative viruses, B/Florida/04/2006 (B/Yamagata lineage) and B/Brisbane/60/2008 (B/Victoria lineage). Using phage display, we have isolated a panel of single domain antibodies (sdAbs), with both cross-reactive and lineage-specific binding. Several sdAbs recognise whole virus antigens, corresponding to influenza B strains included in vaccines spanning over 20 years, and were capable of neutralising IBV pseudotypes corresponding to prototype strains from both lineages. Lineage-specific sdAbs recognised the head domain, whereas, sdAbs identified as cross-reactive could be classified as either head binding or stem binding. Using yeast display, we were able to correlate lineage specificity with naturally occurring sequence divergence, at residue 122 in the highly variable 120 loop of the HA1 domain. The single domain antibodies described, might have applications in IBV diagnostics, vaccine potency testing and as immunotherapeutics.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.3390/antib8010014 |
Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Medway School of Pharmacy |
Depositing User: | Nigel Temperton |
Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2019 10:19 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:34 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/72273 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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