A serological assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in humans

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: All participants provided written informed consent prior to the study.
    IRB: The studies were approved by the Alfred Hospital (ID #280/14) and University of Melbourne (ID #1442952.1, 1955465.2) Human Research Ethics Committees, and under research permit for project TYH2018322 of Helsinki University Hospital Laboratory.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Next, a 1:3000 dilution of goat anti-human IgG-horseradish peroxidase (HRP) conjugated secondary antibody (ThermoFisher Scientific) was prepared in 0.1% TPBS and 100 ul of this secondary antibody was added to each well for 1 hour.
    anti-human IgG-horseradish
    suggested: None
    These antibodies include anti-human IgA (α-chain-specific) HRP antibody (Sigma A0295) (1:3,000), anti-human IgM (μ-chain-specific) HRP antibody (Sigma A6907) (1:3,000), anti-human IgG1 Fc-HRP (Southern Biotech 9054-05) (1:3,000), anti-human IgG2 Fc-HRP (Southern Biotech #9060-05) (1:3,000), anti-human IgG3hinge-HRP (Southern Biotech 9210-05) (1:3,000), and anti-human IgG4 Fc-HRP (Southern Biotech 9200-05).
    anti-human IgA
    suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# A0295, RRID:AB_257876)
    α-chain-specific) HRP
    suggested: None
    anti-human IgM
    suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# A6907, RRID:AB_258318)
    HRP
    suggested: None
    anti-human IgG1
    suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 9054-05, RRID:AB_2796627)
    anti-human IgG2
    suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 9060-05, RRID:AB_2796633)
    anti-human IgG3hinge-HRP
    suggested: None
    anti-human IgG4
    suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 9200-05, RRID:AB_2796691)
    After blocking, 100 μL of 1C7 (anti-SARS NP antibody generated in house) at a dilution of 1:1000 was added to all wells and the plates were allowed to incubate for 1 hr at room temperature.
    anti-SARS NP
    suggested: (Fitzgerald Industries International Cat# 20R-2831, RRID:AB_11196425)
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    S1 proteins of NL63 and 229E were obtained from Sino Biologics (produced in 293HEK cells, hexa-histidine tagged).
    293HEK
    suggested: None
    cDMEM was removed from Vero.E6 cells and 120 μL of the virus-serum mixture was added to the cells and the cells were incubated at 37°C for 1 hr.
    Vero.E6
    suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Recombinant proteins: The mammalian cell codon optimized nucleotide sequence coding for the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 isolate (GenBank: MN908947.3) was synthesized commercially (GeneWiz).
    GeneWiz
    suggested: (GENEWIZ, RRID:SCR_003177)
    Several of the expression plasmids and proteins have also been submitted to BEI Resources and can be requested from their web page for free (https://www.beiresources.org/).
    https://www.beiresources.org/
    suggested: (BEI Resource Repository, RRID:SCR_013698)
    Data were analyzed using Prism 7 (Graphpad).
    Prism
    suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)
    Graphpad
    suggested: (GraphPad, RRID:SCR_000306)
    The following day, heat inactivated serum samples (dilution of 1:10) were serially diluted 3-fold in 2X MEM (20% 10× minimal essential medium (Gibco), 4⍰mM L-glutamine, 0.2% of sodium bicarbonate [wt/vol; Gibco], 20⍰mM 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid (HEPES, Gibco), 200⍰U/ml penicillin–200⍰μ/ml streptomycin (Gibco), and 0.4% bovine serum albumin (MP Biomedical)).
    Gibco]
    suggested: None
    Analyses were performed in 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: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04264858Not yet recruitingTreatment of Acute Severe 2019-nCoV Pneumonia With Immunoglo…


    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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