• Federico Bertoglio, Doris Meier, Nora Langreder, Stephan Steinke, Ulfert Rand, Luca Simonelli, Philip Alexander Heine, Rico Ballmann, Kai-Thomas Schneider, Kristian Daniel Ralph Roth, Maximilian Ruschig, Peggy Riese, Kathrin Eschke, Yeonsu Kim, Dorina Schäckermann, Mattia Pedotti, Philipp Kuhn, Susanne Zock-Emmenthal, Johannes Wöhrle, Normann Kilb, Tobias Herz, Marlies Becker, Martina Grasshoff, Esther Veronika Wenzel, Giulio Russo, Andrea Kröger, Linda Brunotte, Stephan Ludwig, Viola Fühner, Stefan Daniel Krämer, Stefan Dübel, Luca Varani, Günter Roth, Luka Čičin-Šain, Maren Schubert, and Michael Hust.
• Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Abteilung Biotechnologie, Braunschweig, Germany.
• Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 11; 12 (1): 1577.

AbstractCOVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a new recently emerged sarbecovirus. This virus uses the human ACE2 enzyme as receptor for cell entry, recognizing it with the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the S1 subunit of the viral spike protein. We present the use of phage display to select anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike antibodies from the human naïve antibody gene libraries HAL9/10 and subsequent identification of 309 unique fully human antibodies against S1. 17 antibodies are binding to the RBD, showing inhibition of spike binding to cells expressing ACE2 as scFv-Fc and neutralize active SARS-CoV-2 virus infection of VeroE6 cells. The antibody STE73-2E9 is showing neutralization of active SARS-CoV-2 as IgG and is binding to the ACE2-RBD interface. Thus, universal libraries from healthy human donors offer the advantage that antibodies can be generated quickly and independent from the availability of material from recovering patients in a pandemic situation.

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