Cryo-ET of IgG bivalent binding on SARS-CoV-2 provides structural basis for antibody avidity

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Journal: BioRxiv

Method
Cryo-ET

Summary
They incubated two potent IgG antibodies with SARS-CoV2 virion and found 1) both antibodies can dimerize the spike trimers; 2) one antibody crosslink the spike trimers into rings on the virus membrane, while the other antibody crosslink the spike trimers into lines.