Conformational dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 trimeric spike glycoprotein in complex with receptor ACE2 revealed by cryo-EM

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Abstract

Structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike in complex with ACE2 reveals the mechanism of ACE2 induced spike conformational transitions.

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    Antibodies
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    Anti-RBD polyclonal antibody and monoclonal antibody (MAb) 1A10 were prepared by immunizing BALB/c mice with recombinant SARS-CoV-2 RBD fused with a C-terminal mouse IgGFc tag (Sino Biological Inc, Beijing, China) using previously described protocols (Qu et al., 2020).
    Anti-RBD
    suggested: None
    After washing, the corresponding secondary antibodies, horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-human IgG1 (Abcam, USA) or HRP-conjugated anti-mouse IgG (Sigma, USA), were added and incubated at 37°C for 1 h.
    anti-human IgG1
    suggested: None
    anti-mouse IgG
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    The expression vectors were transiently transfected into HEK293F cells using polyethylenimine.
    HEK293F
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)
    Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains
    SentencesResources
    Anti-RBD polyclonal antibody and monoclonal antibody (MAb) 1A10 were prepared by immunizing BALB/c mice with recombinant SARS-CoV-2 RBD fused with a C-terminal mouse IgGFc tag (Sino Biological Inc, Beijing, China) using previously described protocols (Qu et al., 2020).
    BALB/c
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    The movies were recorded on a K2 Summit direct electron detector (Gatan) operated in the super-resolution mode (yielding a pixel size of 1.02 Å after 2 times binning), under low-dose condition in an automatic manner using SerialEM (Mastronarde, 2005).
    SerialEM
    suggested: (SerialEM, RRID:SCR_017293)
    All images were aligned and summed using MotionCor2 software (Zheng et al., 2017).
    MotionCor2
    suggested: (MotionCor2, RRID:SCR_016499)
    For class 1, after further 2D classification, we refined the 24,502 cleaned up particles into a S-open map at 6.0 Å resolution using non-uniform refinement in CryoSparc.
    CryoSparc
    suggested: (cryoSPARC, RRID:SCR_016501)
    The ACE2 associated with the up RBD was subtracted and refined in Relion to obtain a more 8.4 Å map with better connectivity.
    Relion
    suggested: (RELION, RRID:SCR_016274)
    For the missing loop regions in S1 subunit, we either built the homology model based on SARS-CoV S structure (PDB: 6CRW) (Kirchdoerfer et al., 2018) through SWISS-MODEL webserver (Waterhouse et al., 2018), or built the loop manually according to the density in COOT (Emsley and Cowtan, 2004).
    COOT
    suggested: (Coot, RRID:SCR_014222)
    For the FP region, we first built the homology model by Modeller tool within Chimera by using MERS-CoV S structure (PDB: 6NB3) as template (Pettersen et al.
    Modeller
    suggested: (MODELLER, RRID:SCR_008395)
    We then refined the combined model against our 3.8 Å resolution SARS-CoV-2 S-ACE2 map using Rosetta and Phenix.
    Phenix
    suggested: (Phenix, RRID:SCR_014224)
    Interaction surface analysis was conducted by PISA server (Krissinel and Henrick, 2007).
    PISA
    suggested: (PISA, RRID:SCR_015749)

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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.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).


    Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 34 and 31. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.


    Results from rtransparent:
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