Native-like SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Expressed by ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/AZD1222 Vaccine

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    Table 1: Rigor

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    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Polyclonal rabbit anti-S1 antibody (Sinobiological, Cat: 40592-T62) and anti-S2 antibody (Abcam, Cat: ab272504) were used as primary antibodies.
    anti-S1
    suggested: None
    anti-S2
    suggested: None
    Cells were washed 3 × with PBS-BSA-0.5% then incubated for 1h at RT with secondary antibodies conjugated with Alexafluor488 diluted at 1:1000 in PBS-BSA 0.5% (for ChAdOx1 nCov-19 serum staining Goat Anti mouse AlexaFluor 488 (Life Tech A11029)
    Anti mouse
    suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# A-11029, RRID:AB_2534088)
    Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies from peripheral B cells by spike-specific single B cells sorting: To isolate Spike-specific B cells, PBMCs were labelled with recombinant trimeric spike-twin-Strep and stained with antibody cocktail consisting of CD3-FITC, CD14-FITC, CD56-FITC, CD16-FITC, IgM-FITC, IgA-FITC, IgD-FITC, IgG-BV786, CD19-BUV395 and Strep-MAB-DY549 (iba) to probe the Strep tag of spike.
    IgG-BV786
    suggested: None
    CD19-BUV395
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Western blot analysis: Protein pellets from the HEK293F cell lysates were loaded onto an SDS-PAGE gel, then transferred to a PVDF membrane.
    HEK293F
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)
    FACS analysis for cell surface spike expression: Hela S3 cells at 4 ×105 cell/ml were infected with 10 MOI ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and incubated at 37°C for 40-48h.
    Hela S3
    suggested: None
    Plasmids encoding heavy and light chains were then co-transfected into the 293T cell line by the polyethylenimine method (408727; Sigma), and antibody were harvested for further study.
    293T
    suggested: None
    1.6×105 of U2OS or HeLa cells resuspended in 2 ml of DMEM 10% FBS, Pen/Strep were seeded on top of the grids in, in 6 well plate wells.
    U2OS
    suggested: None
    HeLa
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Data were analysed using FlowJo v9 (TreeStar).
    FlowJo
    suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)
    Tilt series were acquired using SerialEM (44) at a pixel size of 2.13 Å.
    SerialEM
    suggested: (SerialEM, RRID:SCR_017293)
    Movies were subsequently gain normalised during motion correction and Fourier cropped back to physical pixel size with MotionCor2 (46).
    MotionCor2
    suggested: (MotionCor2, RRID:SCR_016499)
    A representative glycoform presented at each site was modelled on to the N-linked carbohydrate attachment sites in Coot (50).
    Coot
    suggested: (Coot, RRID:SCR_014222)
    Mass spectrometry raw files have been deposited in the MassIVE proteomics database (DOI: XXX).
    MassIVE
    suggested: None

    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: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    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.

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