PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Li, Dapeng AU - Edwards, Robert J AU - Manne, Kartik AU - Martinez, David R. AU - Schäfer, Alexandra AU - Alam, S. Munir AU - Wiehe, Kevin AU - Lu, Xiaozhi AU - Parks, Robert AU - Sutherland, Laura L. AU - Oguin, Thomas H. AU - McDanal, Charlene AU - Perez, Lautaro G. AU - Mansouri, Katayoun AU - Gobeil, Sophie M. C. AU - Janowska, Katarzyna AU - Stalls, Victoria AU - Kopp, Megan AU - Cai, Fangping AU - Lee, Esther AU - Foulger, Andrew AU - Hernandez, Giovanna E. AU - Sanzone, Aja AU - Tilahun, Kedamawit AU - Jiang, Chuancang AU - Tse, Longping V. AU - Bock, Kevin W. AU - Minai, Mahnaz AU - Nagata, Bianca M. AU - Cronin, Kenneth AU - Gee-Lai, Victoria AU - Deyton, Margaret AU - Barr, Maggie AU - Von Holle, Tarra AU - Macintyre, Andrew N. AU - Stover, Erica AU - Feldman, Jared AU - Hauser, Blake M. AU - Caradonna, Timothy M. AU - Scobey, Trevor D. AU - Moody, M. Anthony AU - Cain, Derek W. AU - DeMarco, C. Todd AU - Denny, Thomas N. AU - Woods, Christopher W. AU - Petzold, Elizabeth W. AU - Schmidt, Aaron G. AU - Teng, I-Ting AU - Zhou, Tongqing AU - Kwong, Peter D. AU - Mascola, John R. AU - Graham, Barney S. AU - Moore, Ian N. AU - Seder, Robert AU - Andersen, Hanne AU - Lewis, Mark G. AU - Montefiori, David C. AU - Sempowski, Gregory D. AU - Baric, Ralph S. AU - Acharya, Priyamvada AU - Haynes, Barton F. AU - Saunders, Kevin O. TI - The functions of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing and infection-enhancing antibodies in vitro and in mice and nonhuman primates AID - 10.1101/2020.12.31.424729 DP - 2021 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 2020.12.31.424729 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/02/2020.12.31.424729.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/02/2020.12.31.424729.full AB - SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) protect against COVID-19, making them a focus of vaccine design. A safety concern regarding SARS-CoV-2 antibodies is whether they mediate disease enhancement. Here, we isolated potent NAbs against the receptor-binding domain (RBD) and the N-terminal domain (NTD) of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from individuals with acute or convalescent SARS-CoV-2 or a history of SARS-CoV-1 infection. Cryo-electron microscopy of RBD and NTD antibodies demonstrated function-specific modes of antibody binding. Select RBD NAbs also demonstrated Fc receptor-γ (FcγR)-mediated enhancement of virus infection in vitro, while five non-neutralizing NTD antibodies mediated FcγR-independent in vitro infection enhancement. However, both in vitro neutralizing and infection-enhancing RBD or infection-enhancing NTD antibodies protected from SARS-CoV-2 challenge in non-human primates and mice. One of 30 monkeys infused with enhancing antibodies had lung pathology and bronchoalveolar lavage cytokine evidence suggestive of enhanced disease. Thus, these in vitro assessments of enhanced antibody-mediated infection do not necessarily indicate biologically relevant in vivo infection enhancement.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.