Communications Biology (Mar 2022)

Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviral infection requires FcγRIIB and virus-antibody complex with bivalent interaction

  • Shuang Wang,
  • Junchao Wang,
  • Xiaojuan Yu,
  • Wen Jiang,
  • Shuo Chen,
  • Rongjuan Wang,
  • Mingzhu Wang,
  • Shasha Jiao,
  • Yingying Yang,
  • Wenbo Wang,
  • Huilin Chen,
  • Ben Chen,
  • Chunying Gu,
  • Chuang Liu,
  • An Wang,
  • Min Wang,
  • Gang Li,
  • Cuicui Guo,
  • Datao Liu,
  • Jinchao Zhang,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Lan Wang,
  • Xun Gui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03207-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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By distinguishing between two types of neutralizing antibodies that either exhibit or lack antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) activity, FcγRIIB and bivalent binding are shown to be required for ADE in SARS-CoV-2 infection.