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1. Complement lectin pathway activation is associated with COVID-19 disease severity, independent of MBL2 genotype subgroups

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Lisa Hurler, Ágnes Szilágyi, Federica Mescia, Laura Bergamaschi, Blanka Mező, György Sinkovits, Marienn Réti, Veronika Müller, Zsolt Iványi, János Gál, László Gopcsa, Péter Reményi, Beáta Szathmáry, Botond Lakatos, János Szlávik, Ilona Bobek, Zita Z. Prohászka, Zsolt Förhécz, Dorottya Csuka, Erika Kajdácsi, László Cervenak, Petra Kiszel, Tamás Masszi, István Vályi-Nagy, Reinhard Würzner, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease-National Institute of Health Research (CITIID-NIHR) COVID BioResource Collaboration, Paul A. Lyons, Erik J. M. Toonen, Zoltán Prohászka, Stephen Baker, John R. Bradley, Patrick F. Chinnery, Daniel J. Cooper, Gordon Dougan, Ian G. Goodfellow, Ravindra K. Gupta, Nathalie Kingston, Paul J. Lehner, Nicholas J. Matheson, Caroline Saunders, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Charlotte Summers, James Thaventhiran, M. Estee Torok, Mark R. Toshner, Michael P. Weekes, Gisele Alvio, Sharon Baker, Areti Bermperi, Karen Brookes, Ashlea Bucke, Jo Calder, Laura Canna, Cherry Crucusio, Isabel Cruz, Rnalie de Jesus, Katie Dempsey, Giovanni Di Stephano, Jason Domingo, Anne Elmer, Julie Harris, Sarah Hewitt, Heather Jones, Sherly Jose, Jane Kennet, Yvonne King, Jenny Kourampa, Emily Li, Caroline McMahon, Anne Meadows, Vivien Mendoza, Criona O’Brien, Charmain Ocaya, Ciro Pascuale, Marlyn Perales, Jane Price, Rebecca Rastall, Carla Ribeiro, Jane Rowlands, Valentina Ruffolo, Hugo Tordesillas, Phoebe Vargas, Bensi Vergese, Laura Watson, Jieniean Worsley, Julie-Ann Zerrudo, Ariana Betancourt, Georgie Bower, Ben Bullman, Chiara Cossetti, Aloka De Sa, Benjamin J. Dunore, Maddie Epping, Stuart Fawke, Stefan Gräf, Richard Grenfell, Andrew Hinch, Josh Hodgson, Christopher Huang, Oisin Huhn, Kelvin Hunter, Isobel Jarvis, Emma Jones, Maša Josipović, Ekaterina Legchenko, Daniel Lewis, Joe Marsden, Jennifer Martin, Francesca Nice, Ciara O’Donnell, Ommar Omarjee, Marianne Perera, Linda Pointon, Nicole Pond, Nathan Richoz, Nika Romashova, Natalia Savoinykh, Rahul Sharma, Joy Shih, Mateusz Strezlecki, Rachel Sutcliffe, Tobias Tilly, Zhen Tong, Carmen Treacy, Lori Turner, Jennifer Wood, Marta Wylot, John Allison, Heather Biggs, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Debbie Clapham-Riley, Eleanor Dewhurst, Christian Fernandez, Anita Furlong, Barbara Graves, Jennifer Gray, Tasmin Ivers, Emma Le Gresley, Rachel Linger, Mary Kasanicki, Sarah Meloy, Francesca Muldoon, Nigel Ovington, Sofia Papadia, Christopher J. Penkett, Isabel Phelan, Venkatesh Ranganath, Jennifer Sambrook, Katherine Schon, Hannah Stark, Kathleen E. Stirrups, Paul Townsend, Julie von Ziegenweidt, Jennifer Webster, Ali Asaripour, Lucy Mwaura, Caroline Patterson, Gary Polwarth, Katherine Bunclark, Michael Mackay, Alice Michael, Sabrina Rossi, Mayurun Selvan, Sarah Spencer, Cissy Yong, and Petra Polgarova

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mannose binding lectin (MBL), MBL2 genotypes, COVID-19, severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), lectin pathway activation, lectin pathway of complement, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
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IntroductionWhile complement is a contributor to disease severity in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections, all three complement pathways might be activated by the virus. Lectin pathway activation occurs through different pattern recognition molecules, including mannan binding lectin (MBL), a protein shown to interact with SARS-CoV-2 proteins. However, the exact role of lectin pathway activation and its key pattern recognition molecule MBL in COVID-19 is still not fully understood.MethodsWe therefore investigated activation of the lectin pathway in two independent cohorts of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, while also analysing MBL protein levels and potential effects of the six major single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found in the MBL2 gene on COVID-19 severity and outcome.ResultsWe show that the lectin pathway is activated in acute COVID-19, indicated by the correlation between complement activation product levels of the MASP-1/C1-INH complex (p=0.0011) and C4d (p

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2023
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2. Distinction of early complement classical and lectin pathway activation via quantification of C1s/C1-INH and MASP-1/C1-INH complexes using novel ELISAs

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Lisa Hurler, Erik J. M. Toonen, Erika Kajdácsi, Bregje van Bree, Ricardo J. M. G. E. Brandwijk, Wieke de Bruin, Paul A. Lyons, Laura Bergamaschi, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease-National Institute of Health Research (CITIID-NIHR) COVID BioResource Collaboration, György Sinkovits, László Cervenak, Reinhard Würzner, Zoltán Prohászka, Stephen Baker, John R. Bradley, Patrick F. Chinnery, Daniel J. Cooper, Gordon Dougan, Ian G. Goodfellow, Ravindra K. Gupta, Nathalie Kingston, Paul J. Lehner, Nicholas J. Matheson, Caroline Saunders, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Charlotte Summers, James Thaventhiran, M. Estee Torok, Mark R. Toshner, Michael P. Weekes, Gisele Alvio, Sharon Baker, Areti Bermperi, Karen Brookes, Ashlea Bucke, Jo Calder, Laura Canna, Cherry Crucusio, Isabel Cruz, Rnalie de Jesus, Katie Dempsey, Giovanni Di Stephano, Jason Domingo, Anne Elmer, Julie Harris, Sarah Hewitt, Heather Jones, Sherly Jose, Jane Kennet, Yvonne King, Jenny Kourampa, Emily Li, Caroline McMahon, Anne Meadows, Vivien Mendoza, Criona O’Brien, Charmain Ocaya, Ciro Pascuale, Marlyn Perales, Jane Price, Rebecca Rastall, Carla Ribeiro, Jane Rowlands, Valentina Ruffolo, Hugo Tordesillas, Phoebe Vargas, Bensi Vergese, Laura Watson, Jieniean Worsley, Julie-Ann Zerrudo, Ariana Betancourt, Georgie Bower, Ben Bullman, Chiara Cossetti, Aloka De Sa, Benjamin J. Dunore, Maddie Epping, Stuart Fawke, Stefan Gräf, Richard Grenfell, Andrew Hinch, Josh Hodgson, Christopher Huang, Oisin Huhn, Kelvin Hunter, Isobel Jarvis, Emma Jones, Maša Josipović, Ekaterina Legchenko, Daniel Lewis, Joe Marsden, Jennifer Martin, Federica Mescia, Francesca Nice, Ciara O’Donnell, Ommar Omarjee, Marianne Perera, Linda Pointon, Nicole Pond, Nathan Richoz, Nika Romashova, Natalia Savoinykh, Rahul Sharma, Joy Shih, Mateusz Strezlecki, Rachel Sutcliffe, Tobias Tilly, Zhen Tong, Carmen Treacy, Lori Turner, Jennifer Wood, Marta Wylot, John Allison, Heather Biggs, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Debbie Clapham-Riley, Eleanor Dewhurst, Christian Fernandez, Anita Furlong, Barbara Graves, Jennifer Gray, Tasmin Ivers, Emma Le Gresley, Rachel Linger, Mary Kasanicki, Sarah Meloy, Francesca Muldoon, Nigel Ovington, Sofia Papadia, Christopher J. Penkett, Isabel Phelan, Venkatesh Ranganath, Jennifer Sambrook, Katherine Schon, Hannah Stark, Kathleen E. Stirrups, Paul Townsend, Julie von Ziegenweidt, Jennifer Webster, Ali Asaripour, Lucy Mwaura, Caroline Patterson, Gary Polwarth, Katherine Bunclark, Michael Mackay, Alice Michael, Sabrina Rossi, Mayurun Selvan, Sarah Spencer, Cissy Yong, and Petra Polgarova

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early complement activation, classical pathway activation, lectin pathway activation, C1-INH complexes, assay development and validation, C1s/C1-INH complex, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
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The most commonly used markers to assess complement activation are split products that are produced through activation of all three pathways and are located downstream of C3. In contrast, C4d derives from the cleavage of C4 and indicates either classical (CP) or lectin pathway (LP) activation. Although C4d is perfectly able to distinguish between CP/LP and alternative pathway (AP) activation, no well-established markers are available to differentiate between early CP and LP activation. Active enzymes of both pathways (C1s/C1r for the CP, MASP-1/MASP-2 for the LP) are regulated by C1 esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) through the formation of covalent complexes. Aim of this study was to develop validated immunoassays detecting C1s/C1-INH and MASP-1/C1-INH complex levels. Measurement of the complexes reveals information about the involvement of the respective pathways in complement-mediated diseases. Two sandwich ELISAs detecting C1s/C1-INH and MASP-1/C1-INH complex were developed and tested thoroughly, and it was investigated whether C1s/C1-INH and MASP-1/C1-INH complexes could serve as markers for either early CP or LP activation. In addition, a reference range for these complexes in healthy adults was defined, and the assays were clinically validated utilizing samples of 414 COVID-19 patients and 96 healthy controls. The immunoassays can reliably measure C1s/C1-INH and MASP-1/C1-INH complex concentrations in EDTA plasma from healthy and diseased individuals. Both complex levels are increased in serum when activated with zymosan, making them suitable markers for early classical and early lectin pathway activation. Furthermore, measurements of C1-INH complexes in 96 healthy adults showed normally distributed C1s/C1-INH complex levels with a physiological concentration of 1846 ± 1060 ng/mL (mean ± 2SD) and right-skewed distribution of MASP-1/C1-INH complex levels with a median concentration of 36.9 (13.18 - 87.89) ng/mL (2.5-97.5 percentile range), while levels of both complexes were increased in COVID-19 patients (p

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2022
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3. Levels of soluble complement regulators predict severity of COVID-19 symptoms

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Anna L. Tierney, Wajd Mohammed Alali, Thomas Scott, Karen S. Rees-Unwin, CITIID-NIHR BioResource COVID-19 Collaboration, Simon J. Clark, Richard D. Unwin, Stephen Baker, John Bradley, Patrick Chinnery, Daniel Cooper, Gordon Dougan, Ian Goodfellow, Ravindra Gupta, Nathalie Kingston, Paul J. Lehner, Paul A. Lyons, Nicholas J. Matheson, Caroline Saunders, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Charlotte Summers, James Thaventhiran, M. Estee Torok, Mark R. Toshner, Michael P. Weekes, Gisele Alvio, Sharon Baker, Areti Bermperi, Karen Brookes, Ashlea Bucke, Jo Calder, Laura Canna, Cherry Crucusio, Isabel Cruz, Ranalie de Jesus, Katie Dempsey, Giovanni Di Stephano, Jason Domingo, Anne Elmer, Julie Harris, Sarah Hewitt, Heather Jones, Sherly Jose, Jane Kennet, Yvonne King, Jenny Kourampa, Emily Li, Caroline McMahon, Anne Meadows, Vivien Mendoza, Criona O’Brien, Charmain Ocaya, Ciro Pasquale, Marlyn Perales, Jane Price, Rebecca Rastall, Carla Ribeiro, Jane Rowlands, Valentina Ruffolo, Hugo Tordesillas, Phoebe Vargas, Bensi Vergese, Laura Watson, Jieniean Worsley, Julie-Ann Zerrudo, Laura Bergamashi, Ariana Betancourt, Georgie Bower, Ben Bullman, Chiara Cossetti, Aloka De Sa, Benjamin J. Dunmore, Maddie Epping, Stuart Fawke, Stefan Gräf, Richard Grenfell, Andrew Hinch, Josh Hodgson, Christopher Huang, Oisin Huhn, Kelvin Hunter, Isobel Jarvis, Emma Jones, Maša Josipović, Ekaterina Legchenko, Daniel Lewis, Joe Marsden, Jennifer Martin, Federica Mescia, Ciara O’Donnell, Ommar Omarjee, Marianne Perera, Linda Pointon, Nicole Pond, Nathan Richoz, Nika Romashova, Natalia Savoinykh, Rahul Sharma, Joy Shih, Mateusz Strezlecki, Rachel Sutcliffe, Tobias Tilly, Zhen Tong, Carmen Treacy, Lori Turner, Jennifer Wood, Marta Wylot, John Allison, Heather Biggs, John R. Bradley, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Matt Chandler, Debbie Clapham-Riley, Eleanor Dewhurst, Christian Fernandez, Anita Furlong, Barbara Graves, Jennifer Gray, Sabine Hein, Tasmin Ivers, Emma Le Gresley, Rachel Linger, Mary Kasanicki, Rebecca King, Sarah Meloy, Alexei Moulton, Francesca Muldoon, Nigel Ovington, Sofia Papadia, Christopher J. Penkett, Isabel Phelan, Venkatesh Ranganath, Roxana Paraschiv, Abigail Sage, Jennifer Sambrook, Ingrid Scholtes, Katherine Schon, Hannah Stark, Kathleen E. Stirrups, Paul Townsend, Neil Walker, Jennifer Webster, Mayurun Selvan, Petra Polgarova, Sarah L. Caddy, Laura G. Caller, Yasmin Chaudhry, Martin D. Curran, Theresa Feltwell, Stewart Fuller, Iliana Georgana, Grant Hall, William L. Hamilton, Myra Hosmillo, Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Rhys Izuagbe, Aminu S. Jahun, Fahad A. Khokhar, Anna G. Kovalenko, Luke W. Meredith, Surendra Parmar, Malte L. Pinckert, Anna Yakovleva, Emily C. Horner, Lucy Booth, Alexander Ferreira, Rebecca Boston, Robert Hughes, Juan Carlos Yam Puc, Nonantzin Beristain-Covarrubias, Maria Rust, Thevinya Gurugama, Lihinya Gurugama, Thomas Mulroney, Sarah Spencer, Zhaleh Hosseini, and Kate Williamson

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COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, complement, factor H, factor H-related proteins, biomarkers, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
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The SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide from COVID-19. One of the major challenges of patient management is the broad range of symptoms observed. While the majority of individuals experience relatively mild disease, a significant minority of patients require hospitalisation, with COVID-19 still proving fatal for some. As such, there remains a desperate need to better understand what drives this severe disease, both in terms of the underlying biology, but also to potentially predict at diagnosis which patients are likely to require further interventions, thus enabling better outcomes for both patients and healthcare systems. Several lines of evidence have pointed to dysregulation of the complement cascade as a major factor in severe COVID-19 outcomes. How this is underpinned mechanistically is not known. Here, we have focussed on the role of the soluble complement regulators Complement Factor H (FH), its splice variant Factor H-like 1 (FHL-1) and five Factor H-Related proteins (FHR1-5). Using a targeted mass spectrometry approach, we quantified these proteins in a cohort of 188 plasma samples from controls and SARS-CoV-2 patients taken at diagnosis. This analysis revealed significant elevations in all FHR proteins, but not FH, in patients with more severe disease, particularly FHR2 and FHR5 (FHR2: 1.97-fold, p

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2022
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4. Combined Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid and Antibody Testing for SARS-CoV-2 following Emergence of D614G Spike Variant

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Petra Mlcochova, Dami Collier, Allyson Ritchie, Sonny M. Assennato, Myra Hosmillo, Neha Goel, Bo Meng, Krishna Chatterjee, Vivien Mendoza, Nigel Temperton, Leo Kiss, Leo C. James, Katarzyna A. Ciazynska, Xiaoli Xiong, John A.G. Briggs, James A. Nathan, Federica Mescia, Laura Bergamaschi, Hongyi Zhang, Petros Barmpounakis, Nikos Demeris, Richard Skells, Paul A. Lyons, John Bradley, Steven Baker, Jean Pierre Allain, Kenneth G.C. Smith, Rachel Bousfield, Michael Wilson, Dominic Sparkes, Glenn Amoroso, Effrosyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Susie Hardwick, Adrian Boyle, Ian Goodfellow, Ravindra K. Gupta, Stephen Baker, Gordon Dougan, Ravi Gupta, Paul J. Lehner, Paul Lyons, Nicholas J. Matheson, Mark Toshner, Michael P. Weekes, Nick Brown, Martin Curran, Surendra Palmar, David Enoch, Daniel Chapman, Ashley Shaw, Sherly Jose, Areti Bermperi, Julie Ann Zerrudo, Evgenia Kourampa, Laura Watson, Jieniean Worsley, Caroline Saunders, Ranalie de Jesus, Jason Domingo, Ciro Pasquale, Bensi Vergese, Phoebe Vargas, Marivic Fabiculana, Marlyn Perales, Lee Mynott, Elizabeth Blake, Amy Bates, Anne-Laure Vallier, Alexandra Williams, David Phillips, Edmund Chiu, Alex Overhill, Nicola Ramenatte, Jamal Sipple, Steven Frost, Helena Knock, Richard Hardy, Emily Foster, Fiona Davidson, Viona Rundell, Purity Bundi, Richmond Abeseabe, Sarah Clark, Isabel Vicente, Anne Elmer, Carla Ribeiro, Jenny Kourampa, Jane Kennet, Jane Rowlands, Anne Meadows, Criona O’Brien, Rebecca Rastall, Cherry Crucusio, Sarah Hewitt, Jane Price, Jo Calder, Laura Canna, Ashlea Bucke, Hugo Tordesillas, Julie Harris, Valentina Ruffolo, Barbara Graves, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Emma Le Gresley, Benjamin J. Dunmore, Jennifer Martin, Ekaterina Legchenko, Carmen Treacy, Christopher Huang, Jennifer Wood, Rachel Sutcliffe, Josh Hodgson, Joy Shih, Stefan Graf, Zhen Tong, Tobias Tilly, Ciara O’Donnell, Kelvin Hunter, Linda Pointon, Nicole Pond, Marta Wylot, Emma Jones, Stuart Fawke, Ben Bullman, Lori Turner, Isobel Jarvis, Ommar Omarjee, Aloka De Sa, Joe Marsden, Ariana Betancourt, Marianne Perera, Maddie Epping, Nathan Richoz, Georgie Bower, Rahul Sharma, Francesca Nice, Oisin Huhn, Natalia Savoinykh Yarkoni, Nika Romashova, Daniel Lewis, Andrew Hinch, Chiara Cossetti, Mateusz Strezlecki, Richard Grenfell, Hannah Stark, Neil Walker, Kathy Stirrups, Nigel Ovington, Eleanor Dewhust, Emily Li, Sofia Papadia, Nathalie Kingston, Andrew Lever, Estee Torok, William Hamilton, Grant Hall, Aminu Jahun, Yasmin Chaudhry, Malte Pinckert, Iliana Georgana, Anna Yakovleva, Laura Caller, Sarah Caddy, Theresa Feltwell, Fahad Khokhar, Luke Meredith, Charlotte Holdcroft, and Surendra Parmar

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SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, rapid diagnoses, point of care testing, D614G, Medicine (General), R5-920
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Summary: Rapid COVID-19 diagnosis in the hospital is essential, although this is complicated by 30%–50% of nose/throat swabs being negative by SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). Furthermore, the D614G spike mutant dominates the pandemic and it is unclear how serological tests designed to detect anti-spike antibodies perform against this variant. We assess the diagnostic accuracy of combined rapid antibody point of care (POC) and nucleic acid assays for suspected COVID-19 disease due to either wild-type or the D614G spike mutant SARS-CoV-2. The overall detection rate for COVID-19 is 79.2% (95% CI 57.8–92.9) by rapid NAAT alone. The combined point of care antibody test and rapid NAAT is not affected by D614G and results in very high sensitivity for COVID-19 diagnosis with very high specificity.

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2020
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5. SARS-CoV-2 spike N-terminal domain modulates TMPRSS2-dependent viral entry and fusogenicity

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Bo Meng, Rawlings Datir, Jinwook Choi, John R. Bradley, Kenneth G.C. Smith, Joo Hyeon Lee, Ravindra K. Gupta, Stephen Baker, Gordon Dougan, Christoph Hess, Nathalie Kingston, Paul J. Lehner, Paul A. Lyons, Nicholas J. Matheson, Willem H. Owehand, Caroline Saunders, Charlotte Summers, James E.D. Thaventhiran, Mark Toshner, Michael P. Weekes, Patrick Maxwell, Ashley Shaw, Ashlea Bucke, Jo Calder, Laura Canna, Jason Domingo, Anne Elmer, Stewart Fuller, Julie Harris, Sarah Hewitt, Jane Kennet, Sherly Jose, Jenny Kourampa, Anne Meadows, Criona O’Brien, Jane Price, Cherry Publico, Rebecca Rastall, Carla Ribeiro, Jane Rowlands, Valentina Ruffolo, Hugo Tordesillas, Ben Bullman, Benjamin J. Dunmore, Stuart Fawke, Stefan Gräf, Josh Hodgson, Christopher Huang, Kelvin Hunter, Emma Jones, Ekaterina Legchenko, Cecilia Matara, Jennifer Martin, Federica Mescia, Ciara O’Donnell, Linda Pointon, Joy Shih, Rachel Sutcliffe, Tobias Tilly, Carmen Treacy, Zhen Tong, Jennifer Wood, Marta Wylot, Ariana Betancourt, Georgie Bower, Chiara Cossetti, Aloka De Sa, Madeline Epping, Nick Gleadall, Richard Grenfell, Andrew Hinch, Sarah Jackson, Isobel Jarvis, Ben Krishna, Francesca Nice, Ommar Omarjee, Marianne Perera, Martin Potts, Nathan Richoz, Veronika Romashova, Luca Stefanucci, Mateusz Strezlecki, Lori Turner, Eckart M.D.D. De Bie, Katherine Bunclark, Masa Josipovic, Michael Mackay, John Allison, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Debbie Clapham-Riley, Eleanor Dewhurst, Anita Furlong, Barbara Graves, Jennifer Gray, Tasmin Ivers, Emma Le Gresley, Rachel Linger, Sarah Meloy, Francesca Muldoon, Nigel Ovington, Sofia Papadia, Isabel Phelan, Hannah Stark, Kathleen E. Stirrups, Paul Townsend, Neil Walker, Jennifer Webster, Ingrid Scholtes, Sabine Hein, and Rebecca King

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Organoid, Omicron, SARS-CoV-2, Serine Endopeptidases, CP: Microbiology, COVID-19, spike, Virus Internalization, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus, NTD, Delta, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus, entry, Humans, fusogenicity, TMPRSS2
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike N-terminal domain (NTD) remains poorly characterized despite enrichment of mutations in this region across variants of concern (VOCs). Here, we examine the contribution of the NTD to infection and cell-cell fusion by constructing chimeric spikes bearing B.1.617 lineage (Delta and Kappa variants) NTDs and generating spike pseudotyped lentivirus. We find that the Delta NTD on a Kappa or wild-type (WT) background increases S1/S2 cleavage efficiency and virus entry, specifically in lung cells and airway organoids, through use of TMPRSS2. Delta exhibits increased cell-cell fusogenicity that could be conferred to WT and Kappa spikes by Delta NTD transfer. However, chimeras of Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 spikes with a Delta NTD do not show more efficient TMPRSS2 use or fusogenicity. We conclude that the NTD allosterically modulates S1/S2 cleavage and spike-mediated functions in a spike context-dependent manner, and allosteric interactions may be lost when combining regions from more distantly related VOCs.

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2022

6. Combined point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 following emergence of D614G spike variant

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Petra Mlcochova, Dami Collier, Allyson Ritchie, Sonny M. Assennato, Myra Hosmillo, Neha Goel, Bo Meng, Krishna Chatterjee, Vivien Mendoza, Nigel Temperton, Leo Kiss, Leo C. James, Katarzyna A. Ciazynska, Xiaoli Xiong, John A.G. Briggs, James A. Nathan, Federica Mescia, Laura Bergamaschi, Hongyi Zhang, Petros Barmpounakis, Nikos Demeris, Richard Skells, Paul A. Lyons, John Bradley, Steven Baker, Jean Pierre Allain, Kenneth G.C. Smith, Rachel Bousfield, Michael Wilson, Dominic Sparkes, Glenn Amoroso, Effrosyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Susie Hardwick, Adrian Boyle, Ian Goodfellow, Ravindra K. Gupta, Stephen Baker, Gordon Dougan, Ravi Gupta, Paul J. Lehner, Paul Lyons, Nicholas J. Matheson, Mark Toshner, Michael P. Weekes, Nick Brown, Martin Curran, Surendra Palmar, David Enoch, Daniel Chapman, Ashley Shaw, Sherly Jose, Areti Bermperi, Julie Ann Zerrudo, Evgenia Kourampa, Laura Watson, Jieniean Worsley, Caroline Saunders, Ranalie de Jesus, Jason Domingo, Ciro Pasquale, Bensi Vergese, Phoebe Vargas, Marivic Fabiculana, Marlyn Perales, Lee Mynott, Elizabeth Blake, Amy Bates, Anne-Laure Vallier, Alexandra Williams, David Phillips, Edmund Chiu, Alex Overhill, Nicola Ramenatte, Jamal Sipple, Steven Frost, Helena Knock, Richard Hardy, Emily Foster, Fiona Davidson, Viona Rundell, Purity Bundi, Richmond Abeseabe, Sarah Clark, Isabel Vicente, Anne Elmer, Carla Ribeiro, Jenny Kourampa, Jane Kennet, Jane Rowlands, Anne Meadows, Criona O’Brien, Rebecca Rastall, Cherry Crucusio, Sarah Hewitt, Jane Price, Jo Calder, Laura Canna, Ashlea Bucke, Hugo Tordesillas, Julie Harris, Valentina Ruffolo, Barbara Graves, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Emma Le Gresley, Benjamin J. Dunmore, Jennifer Martin, Ekaterina Legchenko, Carmen Treacy, Christopher Huang, Jennifer Wood, Rachel Sutcliffe, Josh Hodgson, Joy Shih, Stefan Graf, Zhen Tong, Tobias Tilly, Ciara O’Donnell, Kelvin Hunter, Linda Pointon, Nicole Pond, Marta Wylot, Emma Jones, Stuart Fawke, Ben Bullman, Lori Turner, Isobel Jarvis, Ommar Omarjee, Aloka De Sa, Joe Marsden, Ariana Betancourt, Marianne Perera, Maddie Epping, Nathan Richoz, Georgie Bower, Rahul Sharma, Francesca Nice, Oisin Huhn, Natalia Savoinykh Yarkoni, Nika Romashova, Daniel Lewis, Andrew Hinch, Chiara Cossetti, Mateusz Strezlecki, Richard Grenfell, Hannah Stark, Neil Walker, Kathy Stirrups, Nigel Ovington, Eleanor Dewhust, Emily Li, Sofia Papadia, Nathalie Kingston, Andrew Lever, Estee Torok, William Hamilton, Grant Hall, Aminu Jahun, Yasmin Chaudhry, Malte Pinckert, Iliana Georgana, Anna Yakovleva, Laura Caller, Sarah Caddy, Theresa Feltwell, Fahad Khokhar, Luke Meredith, Charlotte Holdcroft, and Surendra Parmar

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Male, Antibodies, Viral, Serology, 0302 clinical medicine, COVID-19 Testing, 80 and over, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Viral, Aged, 80 and over, Immunoassay, 0303 health sciences, lcsh:R5-920, biology, Middle Aged, D614G, Spike Glycoprotein, 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Point-of-Care Testing, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus, Spike (software development), Female, Antibody, lcsh:Medicine (General), Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Point-of-care testing, Sensitivity and Specificity, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Antibodies, 03 medical and health sciences, rapid diagnoses, Neutralization Tests, Throat, Report, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, Point of care, Aged, QR355, COVID-19, point of care testing, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, Virology, Coronavirus, biology.protein, Nucleic acid, business
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Rapid COVID-19 diagnosis in the hospital is essential, although this is complicated by 30%–50% of nose/throat swabs being negative by SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). Furthermore, the D614G spike mutant dominates the pandemic and it is unclear how serological tests designed to detect anti-spike antibodies perform against this variant. We assess the diagnostic accuracy of combined rapid antibody point of care (POC) and nucleic acid assays for suspected COVID-19 disease due to either wild-type or the D614G spike mutant SARS-CoV-2. The overall detection rate for COVID-19 is 79.2% (95% CI 57.8–92.9) by rapid NAAT alone. The combined point of care antibody test and rapid NAAT is not affected by D614G and results in very high sensitivity for COVID-19 diagnosis with very high specificity., Graphical Abstract, Highlights Combined rapid antibody + nucleic acid detection correctly diagnoses SARS-CoV-2 Rapid antibody tests detect immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 bearing D614G Rapid SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests do not cross-react with antibodies to seasonal CoV False positivity in SARS-CoV-2 finger prick blood antibody tests can be very low, Mlcochova et al. report that combined rapid nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) and finger prick blood antibody tests can substantially improve the diagnosis of COVID-19 as compared to NAAT alone and is able to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Spike D614G variant that dominates the pandemic.

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2021
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7. Author response: Effective control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between healthcare workers during a period of diminished community prevalence of COVID-19

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Simone Hargreaves, Francescsa Nice, Naidine Escoffery, Paul J. Lehner, Lucy Rivett, Caroline Saunders, Julie Harris, Neil Bartholomew, Natalia Savoinykh Yarkoni, Anne Meadows, Anne-Laure Vallier, Mary Kasanicki, Joe Marsden, Jo Wright, Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Chris Workman, Mark Ferris, Carmen M. Treacy, Kelvin Hunter, Anita Furlong, Harmeet Gill, Michael P. Weekes, Surendra Parmar, Nika Romashova, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Greg Hannon, Ashlea Bucke, Chris McNicholas, Debbie Read, Myra Hosmillo, Sushmita Sridhar, Linda Pointon, Jane Gray, John Bradley, Josh Hodgson, Emma Le Gresley, Joana Pereira-Dias, Lori Turner, Nicola Ramenatte, Stefan Gräf, Ben Warne, Claire Cormie, Jane Rowlands, Jane Kennet, Penelope-Jane Eames, Christopher Huang, Barbara J. Graves, Sally Forrest, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Joanna Calder, Anna Yakovleva, Jo Price, Aileen Narcorda, M. Estée Török, Sarah Hewitt, Martin D. Curran, Ian Goodfellow, Valentina Ruffolo, Cordova Jiménez, Michelle Wantoch, Lisa Thake, Zhen Tong, Isobel Jarvis, Laura Canna, Paul A. Lyons, Isabel Cruz, Benjamin J. Dunmore, Anne Roberts, William David Córdova Jiménez, Lucy Worboys, Helen Dolling, Rebecca Rastall, Ommar Omarjee, Sarah L Caddy, Barrie Bailey, William L Hamilton, Ekaterina Legchenko, Debra Clapham-Riley, Rachel Sutcliffe, Ciara O’Donnell, Fahad A Khokhar, Laura G Caller, Kathleen E Stirrups, Fathima Nisha Begum Samad, Hongyi Zhang, Jamie Young, Sofia Papadia, Criona O Brien, Tobias Tilly, Jennifer M. Martin, Nick K Jones, Kirsty Lagadu, Carla Ribeiro, Ailsa Bowring, Nicholas J Matheson, Tim Gould, D. Johnson, Ashley Shaw, Simon McCallum, Tim Raine, Daniel Lewis, Ariana Betancourt, Stewart Fuller, Afzal N. Chaudhry, Lenette Mactavous, Heather F Jones, William David, Rachel Doughton, Theresa Feltwell, Luke W. Meredith, Nathalie Kingston, Hannah Stark, Georgie Bowyer, Gregory J. Hannon, Karen Brookes, Dominic Sparkes, Iain Kean, Ravi Gupta, Cherry Publico, Katie Dempsey, Matthew Routledge, Nicholas K Jones, Aloka De Sa, Giles Wright, Laura Bergamaschi, Claire Mather, Rutendo Nyagumbo, Maddie Epping, Jack Levy, Marianne Perera, Christian Sparke, Fatima Nb Samad, Nicola Reynolds, Michael Gill, Hugo Tordesillas, Oisin Huhn, Anne Elmer, Geraldine Martell, Mateusz Strezlecki, Grant Hall, Andrew Hinch, Gordon Dougan, Jennifer Webster, Helen Murphy, Stephen Baker, Aminu S Jahun, Mark Toshner, Angela Wright, Natalie Quinnell, Joy Shih, Caroline Trotter, Nicholas K. Brown, Federica Mescia, John S. Bradley, and Jennifer Wood

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medicine.medical_specialty, Transmission (mechanics), Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), business.industry, law, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Period (gene), Emergency medicine, Health care, Medicine, business, law.invention
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2020
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8. Author response: Screening of healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 highlights the role of asymptomatic carriage in COVID-19 transmission

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Jennifer Webster, Stephen Baker, Neil Bartholomew, Aminu S Jahun, Rutendo Nyagumbo, Mark Toshner, Julie Harris, Paul J. Lehner, Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Lisa Thake, Sarah L Caddy, Benjamin J. Dunmore, Afzal N. Chaudhry, Theresa Feltwell, Christian Sparke, M. Estée Török, Nick K Jones, Michael P. Weekes, Emma Le Gresley, Simon McCallum, Tim Raine, Josefin Bartholdson Scott, Grant Hall, Myra Hosmillo, Stewart Fuller, Andrew Hinch, Angela Wright, Gordon Dougan, Jane Rowlands, Aileen Narcorda, Sally Forrest, Claire Cormie, Jennifer M. Martin, Kathleen E Stirrups, Sarah Hewitt, Natalie Quinnell, Joy Shih, Katie Dempsey, Geraldine Martell, Helen Murphy, Ashley Shaw, Cherry Publico, Heather F Jones, Carmen M. Treacy, Anne-Laure Vallier, Surendra Parmar, Jennifer Wood, Ariana Betancourt, Ashlea Bucke, Debbie Read, Helen Butcher, Martin D. Curran, Penelope-Jane Eames, Sushmita Sridhar, Chris McNicholas, Dominic Sparkes, Ian Goodfellow, Nicola Reynolds, Ciara O’Donnell, Valentina Ruffolo, Jane Kennet, Fahad A Khokhar, Hannah Stark, Paul A. Lyons, Francescsa Nice, Karen Brookes, Lenette Mactavous, Claire Mather, Maddie Epping, Aloka De Sa, Lucy Warboys, Isabel Cruz, Naidine Escoffery, Carla Ribeiro, Ailsa Bowring, Nicholas J Matheson, Iain Kean, Tobias Tilly, Daniel Lewis, Ravi Gupta, Kelvin Hunter, Giles Wright, Anne Roberts, Hugo Tordesillas, Isobel Jarvis, Nicholas K. Brown, Laura Bergamaschi, Anne Elmer, Harmeet Gill, Oisin Huhn, D. Johnson, Laura G Caller, John Bradley, Caroline Saunders, Federica Mescia, Joanna Calder, Anna Yakovleva, Jo Price, Richard J. Samworth, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Mary Kasanicki, Hongyi Zhang, Laura Canna, Rebecca Rastall, Jo Wright, Ben Warne, Simone Hargreaves, Anita Furlong, Josh Hodgson, Daniela Caputo, Stefan Gräf, Jamie Young, Sofia Papadia, Criona O Brien, Kirsty Lagadu, Georgie Bowyer, Michelle Wantoch, Ekaterina Legchenko, Debra Clapham-Riley, Rachel Sutcliffe, Joe Marsden, Mark Ferris, Tim Gould, Mailis Maes, Luke W. Meredith, Joana Pereira-Dias, Nicola Ramenatte, Matthew Routledge, Nathalie Kingston, Helen Dolling, William L Hamilton, Linda Pointon, Christopher Huang, Barbara J. Graves, Lucy Rivett, Anne Meadows, and Zhen Tong

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), business.industry, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Asymptomatic, law.invention, Carriage, Transmission (mechanics), law, Health care, medicine, medicine.symptom, Intensive care medicine, business
Published
2020
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