Decay of Fc-dependent antibody functions after mild to moderate COVID-19

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: The study protocols were approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (#2056689).
    Consent: All subjects provided written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Convalescent donors either had a PCR+ test during early infection or clear exposure to SARS-CoV-2, and were confirmed to have SARS-CoV-2 S- and RBD-specific antibodies via ELISA as previously reported (1).
    SARS-CoV-2
    suggested: None
    To stain for S-expression, transduced cells were incubated with convalescent plasma (1:100 dilution) prior to staining with a secondary mouse anti-human IgG-APC antibody (1:200 dilution; clone HP6017, BioLegend).
    anti-human IgG-APC
    suggested: None
    Correlations between functional ADCC and ADP responses with cell-associated S-specific IgG and FcγR-binding S-specific antibodies were assessed using the non-parametric Spearman test.
    FcγR-binding S-specific
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Cell lines: As target cells for the functional antibody assays, Ramos and A549 cells stably expressing full-length SARS-CoV-2 S and the reporter proteins mOrange2 or luciferase were generated by lentiviral transduction (Fig. S2A).
    Ramos
    suggested: None
    IIA1.6/FcR-γ/FcγRIIIa V158 cells were transfected with a NF-κB response element driven nanoluciferase (NanoLuc) reporter construct (pNL3.2.NF-κB-RE[NlucP/NF-κB-RE/Hygro] (Promega) by nucleofection (Amaxa Kit T, Lonza) and selected in the presence of 200 µg/ml hygromycin.
    IIA1.6/FcR-γ/FcγRIIIa V158
    suggested: None
    The next day, COVID-19 convalescent and uninfected plasma were serially diluted and 50 µl aliquots transferred to the aspirated A549 S-orange cells and incubated at 37°C, 60 min, 5% CO2.
    A549
    suggested: None
    Cell-based THP-1 association assay: To assess the capacity of THP-1 monocytes to associate with S-expressing target cells via Ab-FcγR interactions, an assay using THP-1 cells as effectors and Ramos S-orange cells as targets was performed.
    THP-1
    suggested: CLS Cat# 300356/p804_THP-1, RRID:CVCL_0006)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    The data was analyzed using FlowJo 10.7.1 (see Fig.
    FlowJo
    suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)
    These analyses were carried out in R: A language and environment for statistical computing version 4.0.2. Statistics: Statistical analyses were performed with Graphpad Prism 8.
    Graphpad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

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    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.


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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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