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Author: Dieterle, M. Eugenia; Haslwanter, Denise; Bortz, Robert H.; Wirchnianski, Ariel S.; Lasso, Gorka; Vergnolle, Olivia; Abbasi, Shawn A.; Fels, J. Maximilian; Laudermilch, Ethan; Florez, Catalina; Mengotto, Amanda; Kimmel, Duncan; Malonis, Ryan J.; Georgiev, George; Quiroz, Jose; Barnhill, Jason; Pirofski, Liise-anne; Daily, Johanna P.; Dye, John M.; Lai, Jonathan R.; Herbert, Andrew S.; Chandran, Kartik; Jangra, Rohit K.
Title: A replication-competent vesicular stomatitis virus for studies of SARS-CoV-2 spike-mediated cell entry and its inhibition
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  • Document date: 2020_5_20
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    Snippet: There 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, and define correlates of immune protection, and to down-select candidate antivirals. Here, we describe a highly infectious recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus bearing the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S as its sole entry glycopr
    Document: There 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, and define correlates of immune protection, and to down-select candidate antivirals. Here, we describe a highly infectious recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus bearing the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S as its sole entry glycoprotein that closely resembles the authentic agent in its entry-related properties. We show that the neutralizing activities of a large panel of COVID-19 convalescent sera can be assessed in high-throughput fluorescent reporter assay with rVSV-SARS-CoV-2 S and that neutralization of the rVSV 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 vaccines and therapeutics and for mechanistic studies of viral entry and its inhibition.

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