Protocol and Reagents for Pseudotyping Lentiviral Particles with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein for Neutralization Assays

SARS-CoV-2 enters cells using its Spike protein, which is also the main target of neutralizing antibodies. Therefore, assays to measure how antibodies and sera affect Spike-mediated viral infection are important for studying immunity. Because SARS-CoV-2 is a biosafety-level-3 virus, one way to simpl...

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Main Authors: Katharine H.D. Crawford, Rachel Eguia, Adam S. Dingens, Andrea N. Loes, Keara D. Malone, Caitlin R. Wolf, Helen Y. Chu, M. Alejandra Tortorici, David Veesler, Michael Murphy, Deleah Pettie, Neil P. King, Alejandro B. Balazs, Jesse D. Bloom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/5/513