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ArticleMicroorganisms2024

A Pseudovirus-Based Neutralization Assay for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Rapid, Cost-Effective, BSL-2-Based High-Throughput Assay Useful for Vaccine Immunogenicity Evaluation.

Zhaohui Cai, Raj Kalkeri, Mingzhu Zhu, Shane Cloney-Clark, Benjamin Haner, Mi Wang, Bahar Osman, Dominic Dent, Sheau-Line Feng, Zach Longacre and 2 more

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Article in Microorganisms, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Application of Orthoflavivirus Pseudovirus Technology in Antiviral Research.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhaohui CaiClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Raj KalkeriClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1188-277X
Mingzhu ZhuClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-1628-7442
Shane Cloney-ClarkClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Benjamin HanerClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Mi WangClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Bahar OsmanClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Dominic DentClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Sheau-Line FengClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Zach LongacreDiscovery, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Greg GlennDiscovery, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Joyce S PlestedClinical Immunology, Novavax, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA.
Novavax (United States) · US

Funding

Novavax (United States) none
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutralizing antibody responses from COVID-19 vaccines are pivotal in conferring protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Effective COVID-19 vaccines and assays measuring neutralizing antibodies against emerging variants (i.e., XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16, and XBB.2.3) are needed. The use of biosafety level (BSL)-3 laboratories for live virus assays results in higher costs and a longer turnaround time; therefore, a BSL-2-based pseudovirus neutralization assay (PNT) was developed. The pseudoviruses were produced by cotransfecting cells with plasmids encoding a lentiviral backbone-expressing luciferase reporter; non-surface proteins for lentiviral production; and ancestral or Omicron (BA.1 and BA.5) SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) proteins. The PNT was developed and optimized in dose and kinetics experiments. The representative serum samples (COVID-19-convalescent or NVX-CoV2373-vaccinated participants enrolled in the 2019nCoV-101 trial) demonstrated a wide dynamic range. The neutralization data showed robust correlation with validated anti-recombinant spike IgG levels and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 inhibition titers (ancestral). This assay is suitable for measurement of the neutralization ability in clinical samples from individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 or immunized with a COVID-19 vaccine. The results suggest that this PNT provides a lower cost, high-throughput, rapid turnaround alternative to BSL-3-based microneutralization assays and enables the discovery and development of effective vaccines against emerging variants.

Indexed as

assay validationcorrelate of protectionCOVID-19immunogenicityneutralizing antibody titerspseudovirus-based neutralization assaysSARS-CoV-2XBB.1.16XBB.1.5XBB.2.3

Identifiers

PMID38543552
PMCPMC10972517
OpenAlexW4392285434

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