Human antibodies in Mexico and Brazil neutralizing tick-borne flaviviruses

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Acknowledgement

We thank all study participants as well as the clinical and research teams at Columbia University (New York), The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil), and the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (Mexico). We thank Ted Pierson (NIH) for providing the plasmids pZIKV-HPF-CprME and pWNVII-Rep-REN-IB, Pei Yong Shi for providing pFLWNV, and Aaron Brault (CDC) for providing the DTV 2-plasmid infectious clone system prior to publication. We thank Andrea Celoria for technical assistance, William Schneider for assistance in viral RNA sequencing, and Kristie Gordon for fluorescence-activated cell sorting. We thank Alison Ashbrook for POWV stock genome copy determinations and Tyler Lewy for providing the WNV NY99 virus stock. The graphical abstract was prepared with BioRender. This work was supported in part by the Swiss Vaccine Research Institute (SVRI) and by a Czech-Swiss collaborative project funded jointly by the Czech Science Foundation (no. GF21-05445L to D.R.) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (no. 310030L_196866 to D.F.R.) and NIH grants U01 AI151698 (United World Antiviral Research Network [UWARN] to M.C.N. and D.F.R.); P01 AI138938 and U19 AI111825 (to C.M.R., M.C.N., P.J.B., D.F.R.); R01 AI052473, R01 TW009504, and R01 AI174105 (to A.I.K.); and R21 AI142010 (to M.R.M.). The study was also possible thanks to the IRB-Rockefeller University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Partnership for Global Infectious Disease Research supported by the Fondazione Leonardo and was supported in part by a pilot project award (to M.R.M) through grant no. UL1TR001866 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS, NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award [CTSA] program), and the Mexican government (Programa Presupuestal P016; Anexo 13 del Decreto del Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación). M.C.N. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. This article is subject to HHMI’s open access to publications policy. HHMI lab heads have previously granted a non-exclusive CC BY 4.0 license to the public and a sublicensable license to HHMI in their research articles. Pursuant to those licenses, the author-accepted manuscript of this article can be made freely available under a CC BY 4.0 license immediately upon publication.

Contributions

T.C.R., T.K., J.R.K., L.S., H.-H.H., M.A., A.J., A.P., Y.E.L., A.G., F.G., J.C., B.C., F.B., E.T., and P.S. produced reagents, performed experiments, and analyzed the data; L.S. and S.G.M. performed computational structural and sequence analyses; M.G.R., F.C., A.I.K., B.A.F., S.A.-R., and G.R.-T. provided human samples; C.M.R., M.C.N., P.J.B., D.R., and L.V. supervised portions of the work; J.R.K., M.R.M., and D.F.R. conceived the study, coordinated and supervised the execution, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript, with contributions by the other authors.

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Document S1. Figures S1–S4

able S1. POWV-EDIII antibody sequences, related to Figure 2