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    Wang, Bo; Kluwe, Christien A; Lungu, Oana I; DeKosky, Brandon J; Kerr, Scott A; Johnson, Erik L; Tanno, Hidetaka; Lee, Chang-Han; Jung, Jiwon; Rezigh, Alec B; Carroll, Sean M; Reyes, Ann N; Bentz, Janelle R; Villanueva, Itamar; Altman, Amy L; Davey, Robert A; Ellington, Andrew D; Georgiou, George

    Scientific reports, 09/2015, Letnik: 5, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    The ongoing evolution of Ebolaviruses poses significant challenges to the development of immunodiagnostics for detecting emergent viral variants. There is a critical need for the discovery of monoclonal antibodies with distinct affinities and specificities for different Ebolaviruses. We developed an efficient technology for the rapid discovery of a plethora of antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies from immunized animals by mining the VH:VL paired antibody repertoire encoded by highly expanded B cells in the draining popliteal lymph node (PLN). This approach requires neither screening nor selection for antigen-binding. Specifically we show that mouse immunization with Ebola VLPs gives rise to a highly polarized antibody repertoire in CD138(+) antibody-secreting cells within the PLN. All highly expanded antibody clones (7/7 distinct clones/animal) were expressed recombinantly, and shown to recognize the VLPs used for immunization. Using this approach we obtained diverse panels of antibodies including: (i) antibodies with high affinity towards GP; (ii) antibodies which bound Ebola VLP Kissidougou-C15, the strain circulating in the recent West African outbreak; (iii) non-GP binding antibodies that recognize wild type Sudan or Bundibugyo viruses that have 39% and 37% sequence divergence from Ebola virus, respectively and (iv) antibodies to the Reston virus GP for which no antibodies have been reported.