Longitudinal observation and decline of neutralizing antibody responses in the three months following SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    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
    This protein was expressed in 500 mL HEK-293F cells (Invitrogen) at a density of 1.5 million cells/mL.
    HEK-293F
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)
    Virus preparation: Pseudotyped HIV virus incorporating the SARS-Cov2 spike protein was produced in a 10 cm dish seeded the day prior with 3.5×106 HEK293T/17 cells in 10 ml of complete Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM-C) containing 10% (vol/vol)
    HEK293T/17
    suggested: None
    Next, Hela cells stably expressing the ACE2 receptor (provided by Dr James Voss, The Scripps Research Institute) were added and the plates were left for 72 hours.
    Hela
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Half-maximal binding (EC50) was calculated using GraphPad Prism.
    GraphPad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    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.

    About SciScore

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  2. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.Randomizationnot detected.Blindingnot detected.Power Analysisnot detected.Sex as a biological variableThe cohort were 77.2% male with average age of 55.2 years (range 23-95 years).Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Antibody binding responses to SARS-CoV-2: The IgG, IgM and IgA response against spike (S), the receptor binding domain (RBD) and nucleocapsid (N) were measured by ELISA over multiple time points (Figure 1 and S1).6 Initially, the optical density at 1:50 serum dilution was measured for 300 samples from the 65 individuals (Figure 1 and S1).
    S1
    suggested: None
    Neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2: We next measured SARS-CoV-2 neutralization potency using HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus-1) based virus particles, pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 S17,18 in a HeLa cell line stably expressing the ACE2 receptor.
    HIV-1
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2: We next measured SARS-CoV-2 neutralization potency using HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus-1) based virus particles, pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 S17,18 in a HeLa cell line stably expressing the ACE2 receptor.
    HeLa
    suggested: CLS Cat# 300194/p772_HeLa, CVCL_0030
    This protein was expressed in 500 mL HEK-293F cells (Invitrogen) at a density of 1.5 million cells/mL.
    HEK-293F
    suggested: CVCL_6642
    Virus preparation Pseudotyped HIV virus incorporating the SARS-Cov2 spike protein was produced in a 10 cm dish seeded the day prior with 3.5x106 HEK293T/17 cells in 10 ml of complete Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM-C) containing 10% (vol/vol)
    HEK293T/17
    suggested: ATCC Cat# CRL-11268, CVCL_1926
    Thank you to Florian Krammer for provision of the RBD expression plasmid, Philip Brouwer, Marit Van Gils and Rogier Sanders (University of Amsterdam) for the S protein construct, Leo James, Jakub Luptak and Leo Kiss (LMB) for the provision of purified N protein, and James Voss for providing the Hela-ACE2 cells.
    Hela-ACE2
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Statistical analysis Analyses were performed using R (version 4.0.0) and GraphPad Prism (version 7.0.4).
    GraphPad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, SCR_002798)

    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 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).


    About SciScore

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