Highly versatile antibody binding assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

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    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsConsent: All participants were enrolled after written informed consent was obtained from each participant.
    IRB: Studies were approved by the Research Subjects Institutional Review Board at the University of Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey (Pro2020000655, Pro2020001263, and ClinicalTrials.gov registration numbers NCT04336332 and NCT04336215).
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Cell Line AuthenticationContamination: Each ELISA plate contained positive and negative serum/plasma controls and background control wells without primary antibody, and each sample was tested in duplicate.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Commercial antibody detection assays: The Roche Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 assay utilizing the Roche Cobas e601 instrument and the Abbott Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay utilizing the Abbott Architect c4000, which both use SARS-CoV-2 N protein as capture antigen, were performed by specialized personnel following the manufacturer’s instructions.
    SARS-CoV-2 N protein as capture antigen ,
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Non-SARS-CoV-2 antigens: Spike Protein S1 from non-SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU-1) and Spike Protein S1 and S2 extracellular domain (HCoV-OC43) were obtained from Sino Biologicals (Wayne, PA, USA) and pooled in equimolar amounts to a final concentration of 1 mg/ml.
    HCoV-NL63
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_RW88)
    Recombinant DNA
    SentencesResources
    544) was amplified and cloned at the 3’ end of a gene expressing the N-terminal fragment of the Fr-MuLV SU (gp70 protein) in the eukaryotic expression vector pcDNA3.4 (Addgene, Watertown, MA).
    pcDNA3.4
    suggested: RRID:Addgene_131198)
    Reference SARS-COV-2 S1 RBD Protein: The reference protein was produced from the vector pCAGGS containing the SARS-Related Coronavirus 2,
    pCAGGS
    suggested: RRID:Addgene_18926)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Commercial antibody detection assays: The Roche Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 assay utilizing the Roche Cobas e601 instrument and the Abbott Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay utilizing the Abbott Architect c4000, which both use SARS-CoV-2 N protein as capture antigen, were performed by specialized personnel following the manufacturer’s instructions.
    Abbott Architect
    suggested: (Abbott ARCHITECT i1000sr System, RRID:SCR_019328)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04336332Active, not recruitingRandomized Comparison of Combination Azithromycin and Hydrox…
    NCT04336215RecruitingRutgers COVID-19 Cohort Study


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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