• Cell host & microbe · Sep 2020

    A Replication-Competent Vesicular Stomatitis Virus for Studies of SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Mediated Cell Entry and Its Inhibition.

    • M Eugenia Dieterle, Denise Haslwanter, Robert H Bortz, Ariel S Wirchnianski, Gorka Lasso, Olivia Vergnolle, Shawn A Abbasi, J Maximilian Fels, Ethan Laudermilch, Catalina Florez, Amanda Mengotto, Duncan Kimmel, Ryan J Malonis, George Georgiev, Jose Quiroz, Jason Barnhill, Liise-Anne Pirofski, Johanna P Daily, John M Dye, Jonathan R Lai, Andrew S Herbert, Kartik Chandran, and Rohit K Jangra.
    • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
    • Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Sep 9; 28 (3): 486-496.e6.

    AbstractThere is an urgent need for vaccines and therapeutics to prevent and treat COVID-19. Rapid SARS-CoV-2 countermeasure development is contingent on the availability of robust, scalable, and readily deployable surrogate viral assays to screen antiviral humoral responses, define correlates of immune protection, and down-select candidate antivirals. Here, we generate a highly infectious recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) bearing the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S as its sole entry glycoprotein and show that this recombinant virus, rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S, closely resembles SARS-CoV-2 in its entry-related properties. The neutralizing activities of a large panel of COVID-19 convalescent sera can be assessed in a high-throughput fluorescent reporter assay with rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S, and neutralization of rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S and authentic SARS-CoV-2 by spike-specific antibodies in these antisera is highly correlated. Our findings underscore the utility of rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S for the development of spike-specific therapeutics and for mechanistic studies of viral entry and its inhibition.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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