Structure and Immune Recognition of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Spike Protein

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    For both 293F and 293S cells, 1 L of cells at 1×106 cells were transfected with complexes composed of 250 μg of plasmid DNA and 750 μg of polyethylenimine (Polysciences, Cat. # 24765-1).
    293S
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_A784)
    Mass spectrometry: The PEDV spike sample expressed in Sf9 cells was analyzed on Zorbax SB-C18 column (Agilent) with water with 0.1% formic acid and acetonitrile with 0.1% formic acid as mobile phases.
    Sf9
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Briefly for spike samples, particles were extracted in RELION binning by 2 and then reconstructed in CryoSparc.
    RELION
    suggested: (RELION, RRID:SCR_016274)
    Micrograph movies were aligned using MotionCor2 (UCSF) (Zheng et al., 2017), CTF corrections were done with Gctf (Zhang, 2016) and images were assessed with EMHP (Berndsen et al., 2017).
    MotionCor2
    suggested: (MotionCor2, RRID:SCR_016499)
    The model was aligned an mutated to the PEDV spike sequence and rebuild using Coot (Emsley et al., 2010).
    Coot
    suggested: (Coot, RRID:SCR_014222)
    Model validation was done using Molprobity (Williams et al., 2018) and EMRinger (Barad et al., 2015).
    Molprobity
    suggested: (MolProbity, RRID:SCR_014226)
    : Statistical models inherent to RELION-3.0 (Zivanov et al., 2018) and CryoSparc 2.0 (Punjani et al., 2017) were used to create 3D classifications and 3D refinements from spike particle images.
    CryoSparc
    suggested: (cryoSPARC, RRID:SCR_016501)

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    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.

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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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