Human Memory B Cells Harbor Diverse Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies against BK and JC Polyomaviruses

Add time:08/01/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

SummaryHuman polyomaviruses cause a common childhood infection worldwide and typically elicit a neutralizing antibody and cellular immune response, while establishing a dormant infection in the kidney with minimal clinical manifestations. However, viral reactivation can cause severe pathology in immunocompromised individuals. We developed a high-throughput, functional antibody screen to examine the humoral response to BK polyomavirus. This approach enabled the isolation of antibodies from all peripheral B cell subsets and revealed the anti-BK virus antibody repertoire as clonally complex with respect to immunoglobulin sequences and isotypes (both IgM and IgG), including a high frequency of monoclonal antibodies that broadly neutralize BK virus subtypes and the related JC polyomavirus. Cryo-electron microscopy of a broadly neutralizing IgG single-chain variable fragment complexed with BK virus-like particles revealed the quaternary nature of a conserved viral epitope at the junction between capsid pentamers. These features unravel a potent modality for inhibiting polyomavirus infection in kidney transplant recipients and other immunocompromised patients.

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