Complement alone drives efficacy of a chimeric antigonococcal monoclonal antibody.

Complement alone drives efficacy of a chimeric antigonococcal monoclonal antibody.

Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a global health problem. Monoclonal antibody (mAb) 2C7 recognizes a gonococcal lipooligosaccharide epitope that is expressed by >95% of clinical isolates and hastens gonococcal vaginal clearance in mice. Chimeric mAb 2C7 (human immunoglobulin G1 [IgG1]...

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Main Authors: Sunita Gulati, Frank J Beurskens, Bart-Jan de Kreuk, Marcel Roza, Bo Zheng, Rosane B DeOliveira, Jutamas Shaughnessy, Nancy A Nowak, Ronald P Taylor, Marina Botto, Xianbao He, Robin R Ingalls, Trent M Woodruff, Wen-Chao Song, Janine Schuurman, Peter A Rice, Sanjay Ram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000323

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000323

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