@article {Dejnirattisai2021.03.12.435194, author = {Wanwisa Dejnirattisai and Daming Zhou and Piyada Supasa and Chang Liu and Alexander J. Mentzer and Helen M. Ginn and Yuguang Zhao and Helen M.E. Duyvesteyn and Aekkachai Tuekprakhon and Rungtiwa Nutalai and Beibei Wang and Guido C. Paesen and C{\'e}sar L{\'o}pez-Camacho and Jose Slon-Campos and Thomas S. Walter and Donal Skelly and Sue Ann Costa Clemens and Felipe Gomes Naveca and Valdinete Nascimento and Fernanda Nascimento and Cristiano Fernandes da Costa and Paola C. Resende and Alex Pauvolid-Correa and Marilda M. Siqueira and Christina Dold and Robert Levin and Tao Dong and Andrew J. Pollard and Julian C. Knight and Derrick Crook and Teresa Lambe and Elizabeth Clutterbuck and Sagida Bibi and Amy Flaxman and Mustapha Bittaye and Sandra Belij-Rammerstorfer and Sarah Gilbert and Miles W. Carroll and Paul Klenerman and Eleanor Barnes and Susanna J. Dunachie and Neil G. Paterson and Mark A. Williams and David R. Hall and Ruben J. G. Hulswit and Thomas A. Bowden and Elizabeth E. Fry and Juthathip Mongkolsapaya and Jingshan Ren and David I. Stuart and Gavin R. Screaton}, title = {Antibody evasion by the Brazilian P.1 strain of SARS-CoV-2}, elocation-id = {2021.03.12.435194}, year = {2021}, doi = {10.1101/2021.03.12.435194}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {Terminating the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic relies upon pan-global vaccination. Current vaccines elicit neutralizing antibody responses to the virus spike derived from early isolates. However, new strains have emerged with multiple mutations: P.1 from Brazil, B.1.351 from South Africa and B.1.1.7 from the UK (12, 10 and 9 changes in the spike respectively). All have mutations in the ACE2 binding site with P.1 and B.1.351 having a virtually identical triplet: E484K, K417N/T and N501Y, which we show confer similar increased affinity for ACE2. We show that, surprisingly, P.1 is significantly less resistant to naturally acquired or vaccine induced antibody responses than B.1.351 suggesting that changes outside the RBD impact neutralisation. Monoclonal antibody 222 neutralises all three variants despite interacting with two of the ACE2 binding site mutations, we explain this through structural analysis and use the 222 light chain to largely restore neutralization potency to a major class of public antibodies.Competing Interest StatementGRS sits on the GSK Vaccines Scientific Advisory Board. Oxford University holds intellectual property related to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. AJP is Chair of UK Dept. Health and Social Care (DHSC) Joint Committee on Vaccination \& Immunisation (JCVI) but does not participate in the JCVI COVID19 committee, and is a member of the WHO SAGE. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of DHSC, JCVI, or WHO. The University of Oxford has entered into a partnership with AstraZeneca on coronavirus vaccine development. The University of Oxford has protected intellectual property disclosed in this publication.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/03/19/2021.03.12.435194}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/03/19/2021.03.12.435194.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }