Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Cross-reactive neutralizing human survivor monoclonal antibody BDBV223 targets the ebolavirus stalk

  • Liam B. King,
  • Brandyn R. West,
  • Crystal L. Moyer,
  • Pavlo Gilchuk,
  • Andrew Flyak,
  • Philipp A. Ilinykh,
  • Robin Bombardi,
  • Sean Hui,
  • Kai Huang,
  • Alexander Bukreyev,
  • James E. Crowe,
  • Erica Ollmann Saphire

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09732-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Human antibodies cross-reactive for several viruses within the Ebolavirus genus have been identified. Here the authors present the crystal structure of such a neutralizing monoclonal antibody (mAb) targeting the stalk of Bundibugyo virus glycoprotein and show that mAb binding may interfere with trimeric bundle assembly and/or the viral membrane.