Abstract
Here, we describe the discovery of a naturally occurring human antibody (Ab), FluA-20, that recognizes a new site of vulnerability on the hemagglutinin (HA) head domain and reacts with most influenza A viruses. Structural characterization of FluA-20 with H1 and H3 head domains revealed a novel epitope in the HA trimer interface, suggesting previously unrecognized dynamic features of the trimeric HA protein. The critical HA residues recognized by FluA-20 remain conserved across most subtypes of influenza A viruses, which explains the Ab's extraordinary breadth. The Ab rapidly disrupted the integrity of HA protein trimers, inhibited cell-to-cell spread of virus in culture, and protected mice against challenge with viruses of H1N1, H3N2, H5N1, or H7N9 subtypes when used as prophylaxis or therapy. The FluA-20 Ab has uncovered an exceedingly conserved protective determinant in the influenza HA head domain trimer interface that is an unexpected new target for anti-influenza therapeutics and vaccines. Antibodies targeting a novel site in the head domain of hemagglutinin afford broad protection against influenza.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1136-1152.e18 |
Journal | Cell |
Volume | 177 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 16 May 2019 |
Keywords
- B-lymphocytes
- antibodies
- antibodies
- antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity
- antigen-antibody reactions
- hemagglutinin glycoproteins
- influenza A virus
- influenza virus
- monoclonal
- viral
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In: Cell, Vol. 177, No. 5, 16.05.2019, p. 1136-1152.e18.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - A Site of Vulnerability on the Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin Head Domain Trimer Interface
AU - Bangaru, Sandhya
AU - Lang, Shanshan
AU - Schotsaert, Michael
AU - Vanderven, Hillary A.
AU - Zhu, Xueyong
AU - Kose, Nurgun
AU - Bombardi, Robin
AU - Finn, Jessica A.
AU - Kent, Stephen J.
AU - Gilchuk, Pavlo
AU - Gilchuk, Iuliia
AU - Turner, Hannah L.
AU - García-Sastre, Adolfo
AU - Li, Sheng
AU - Ward, Andrew B.
AU - Wilson, Ian A.
AU - Crowe, James E.
N1 - Funding Information: We thank Henry Tien from the robotics core in the Wilson laboratory for automated crystal screening and Wenli Yu and Yuanzi Huang in the Wilson laboratory for technical support. We thank Rachel Nargi and Rob Carnahan at Vanderbilt for help with mAb production and sequence analysis and Ryan Irving for help with mouse studies. This work was supported by grants from the NIH U19 AI117905 (to J.E.C.), R56 AI127371 (to I.A.W.), and P01 AI097092 (to A.G.-S.) and NIH contracts HHSN272201400024C (to J.E.C.) and HHSN272201400008C (to A.G.-S.). The project described was supported by CTSA award No. UL1 TR002243 from NCATS. Vanderbilt University Medical Center used the non-clinical and pre-clinical services program offered by the NIAID through Contract No. HHSN27220170041I to determine the in vivo activity of FluA-20 in mouse models of influenza conducted by Dr. Jonna Westover at Utah State University. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIGMS, NCATS, NIAID or NIH. X-ray diffraction data were collected at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 23ID-B (GM/CA CAT) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource beamline 11-1. GM/CA@APS is funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the NCI (ACB-12002) and the NIGMS (AGM-12006). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. The SSRL Structural Molecular Biology Program is supported by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research and by the NIH, NIGMS (including P41GM103393). S.B. S. Lang, I.A.W. and J.E.C. conceived and designed the research; S.B. R.B. J.A.F. and J.E.C. isolated, sequenced, and analyzed FluA-20 and its clonally related Abs; S.B. S. Lang, and I.G. performed in vitro profiling of FluA-20 activity; S.B. H.A.V. and S.J.K. determined the ADCC activity; S.B. M.S. P.G. I.G. and A.G.-S. performed mouse studies; S. Lang and X.Z. determined the X-ray structures; S.B. and S. Lang analyzed FluA-20/HA interactions and the epitope; S. Li performed the HDX-MS experiments; H.L.T. and A.B.W. performed and analyzed the EM experiments; S.B, S. Lang, I.A.W. and J.E.C. wrote the manuscript. J.E.C. has served as a consultant for Takeda Vaccines, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer, and Novavax; is on the Scientific Advisory Boards of CompuVax and Meissa Vaccines; and is Founder of IDBiologics, Inc. A.G.-S. is inventor of patents owned by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the field of influenza virus vaccines and Abs. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. Vanderbilt University has applied for a patent related to the FluA-20 Ab. Funding Information: We thank Henry Tien from the robotics core in the Wilson laboratory for automated crystal screening and Wenli Yu and Yuanzi Huang in the Wilson laboratory for technical support. We thank Rachel Nargi and Rob Carnahan at Vanderbilt for help with mAb production and sequence analysis and Ryan Irving for help with mouse studies. This work was supported by grants from the NIH U19 AI117905 (to J.E.C.), R56 AI127371 (to I.A.W.), and P01 AI097092 (to A.G.-S.) and NIH contracts HHSN272201400024C (to J.E.C.) and HHSN272201400008C (to A.G.-S.). The project described was supported by CTSA award No. UL1 TR002243 from NCATS . Vanderbilt University Medical Center used the non-clinical and pre-clinical services program offered by the NIAID through Contract No. HHSN27220170041I to determine the in vivo activity of FluA-20 in mouse models of influenza conducted by Dr. Jonna Westover at Utah State University. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIGMS, NCATS, NIAID or NIH. X-ray diffraction data were collected at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 23ID-B (GM/CA CAT) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource beamline 11-1. GM/CA@APS is funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the NCI ( ACB-12002 ) and the NIGMS ( AGM-12006 ). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source , a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 . Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. DOE , Office of Science , Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 . The SSRL Structural Molecular Biology Program is supported by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research and by the NIH , NIGMS (including P41GM103393 ). Funding Information: We thank Henry Tien from the robotics core in the Wilson laboratory for automated crystal screening and Wenli Yu and Yuanzi Huang in the Wilson laboratory for technical support. We thank Rachel Nargi and Rob Carnahan at Vanderbilt for help with mAb production and sequence analysis and Ryan Irving for help with mouse studies. This work was supported by grants from the NIH U19 AI117905 (to J.E.C.), R56 AI127371 (to I.A.W.), and P01 AI097092 (to A.G.-S.)and NIH contracts HHSN272201400024C (to J.E.C.)and HHSN272201400008C (to A.G.-S.). The project described was supported by CTSA award No. UL1 TR002243 from NCATS. Vanderbilt University Medical Center used the non-clinical and pre-clinical services program offered by the NIAID through Contract No. HHSN27220170041I to determine the in vivo activity of FluA-20 in mouse models of influenza conducted by Dr. Jonna Westover at Utah State University. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIGMS, NCATS, NIAID or NIH. X-ray diffraction data were collected at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 23ID-B (GM/CA CAT)and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource beamline 11-1. GM/CA@APS is funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the NCI (ACB-12002)and the NIGMS (AGM-12006). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. The SSRL Structural Molecular Biology Program is supported by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research and by the NIH, NIGMS (including P41GM103393). S.B. S. Lang, I.A.W. and J.E.C. conceived and designed the research; S.B. R.B. J.A.F. and J.E.C. isolated, sequenced, and analyzed FluA-20 and its clonally related Abs; S.B. S. Lang, and I.G. performed in vitro profiling of FluA-20 activity; S.B. H.A.V. and S.J.K. determined the ADCC activity; S.B. M.S. P.G. I.G. and A.G.-S. performed mouse studies; S. Lang and X.Z. determined the X-ray structures; S.B. and S. Lang analyzed FluA-20/HA interactions and the epitope; S. Li performed the HDX-MS experiments; H.L.T. and A.B.W. performed and analyzed the EM experiments; S.B, S. Lang, I.A.W. and J.E.C. wrote the manuscript. J.E.C. has served as a consultant for Takeda Vaccines, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer, and Novavax; is on the Scientific Advisory Boards of CompuVax and Meissa Vaccines; and is Founder of IDBiologics, Inc. A.G.-S. is inventor of patents owned by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the field of influenza virus vaccines and Abs. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. Vanderbilt University has applied for a patent related to the FluA-20 Ab. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/5/16
Y1 - 2019/5/16
N2 - Here, we describe the discovery of a naturally occurring human antibody (Ab), FluA-20, that recognizes a new site of vulnerability on the hemagglutinin (HA) head domain and reacts with most influenza A viruses. Structural characterization of FluA-20 with H1 and H3 head domains revealed a novel epitope in the HA trimer interface, suggesting previously unrecognized dynamic features of the trimeric HA protein. The critical HA residues recognized by FluA-20 remain conserved across most subtypes of influenza A viruses, which explains the Ab's extraordinary breadth. The Ab rapidly disrupted the integrity of HA protein trimers, inhibited cell-to-cell spread of virus in culture, and protected mice against challenge with viruses of H1N1, H3N2, H5N1, or H7N9 subtypes when used as prophylaxis or therapy. The FluA-20 Ab has uncovered an exceedingly conserved protective determinant in the influenza HA head domain trimer interface that is an unexpected new target for anti-influenza therapeutics and vaccines. Antibodies targeting a novel site in the head domain of hemagglutinin afford broad protection against influenza.
AB - Here, we describe the discovery of a naturally occurring human antibody (Ab), FluA-20, that recognizes a new site of vulnerability on the hemagglutinin (HA) head domain and reacts with most influenza A viruses. Structural characterization of FluA-20 with H1 and H3 head domains revealed a novel epitope in the HA trimer interface, suggesting previously unrecognized dynamic features of the trimeric HA protein. The critical HA residues recognized by FluA-20 remain conserved across most subtypes of influenza A viruses, which explains the Ab's extraordinary breadth. The Ab rapidly disrupted the integrity of HA protein trimers, inhibited cell-to-cell spread of virus in culture, and protected mice against challenge with viruses of H1N1, H3N2, H5N1, or H7N9 subtypes when used as prophylaxis or therapy. The FluA-20 Ab has uncovered an exceedingly conserved protective determinant in the influenza HA head domain trimer interface that is an unexpected new target for anti-influenza therapeutics and vaccines. Antibodies targeting a novel site in the head domain of hemagglutinin afford broad protection against influenza.
KW - B-lymphocytes
KW - antibodies
KW - antibodies
KW - antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity
KW - antigen-antibody reactions
KW - hemagglutinin glycoproteins
KW - influenza A virus
KW - influenza virus
KW - monoclonal
KW - viral
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SP - 1136-1152.e18
JO - Cell
JF - Cell
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