Engineering SARS-CoV-2 specific cocktail antibodies into a bispecific format improves neutralizing potency and breadth

Bispecific antibodies can have advantages compared to antibody cocktails. Here, the authors engineer and characterize two different approaches for generating bispecific SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies and find that only one design increases antigen-binding and virus neutralizing activities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhiqiang Ku, Xuping Xie, Jianqing Lin, Peng Gao, Bin Wu, Abbas El Sahili, Hang Su, Yang Liu, Xiaohua Ye, Eddie Yongjun Tan, Xin Li, Xuejun Fan, Boon Chong Goh, Wei Xiong, Hannah Boyd, Antonio E. Muruato, Hui Deng, Hongjie Xia, Jing Zou, Birte K. Kalveram, Vineet D. Menachery, Ningyan Zhang, Julien Lescar, Pei-Yong Shi, Zhiqiang An
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33284-y