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SHR Neuro Cancer Cardio Lipid Metab Microb
Izadi, S; Vavra, U; Melnik, S; Grunwald-Gruber, C; Foderl-Hobenreich, E; Sack, M; Zatloukal, K; Glossl, J; Stoger, E; Mach, L; Castilho, A; Strasser, R.
In planta deglycosylation improves the SARS-CoV-2 neutralization activity of recombinant ACE2-Fc
FRONT BIOENG BIOTECH. 2023; 11: 1180044
Doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1180044
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- Föderl-Höbenreich Esther
- Zatloukal Kurt
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- SARS-CoV-2 infects human cells via binding of the viral spike glycoprotein to its main cellular receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). The spike protein-ACE2 receptor interaction is therefore a major target for the development of therapeutic or prophylactic drugs to combat coronavirus infections. Various engineered soluble ACE2 variants (decoys) have been designed and shown to exhibit virus neutralization capacity in cell-based assays and in vivo models. Human ACE2 is heavily glycosylated and some of its glycans impair binding to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Therefore, glycan-engineered recombinant soluble ACE2 variants might display enhanced virus-neutralization potencies. Here, we transiently co-expressed the extracellular domain of ACE2 fused to human Fc (ACE2-Fc) with a bacterial endoglycosidase in Nicotiana benthamiana to produce ACE2-Fc decorated with N-glycans consisting of single GlcNAc residues. The endoglycosidase was targeted to the Golgi apparatus with the intention to avoid any interference of glycan removal with concomitant ACE2-Fc protein folding and quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum. The in vivo deglycosylated ACE2-Fc carrying single GlcNAc residues displayed increased affinity to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 as well as improved virus neutralization activity and thus is a promising drug candidate to block coronavirus infection.
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