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Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T150 |
0-7 |
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denotes |
Methods |
T151 |
9-71 |
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denotes |
Expression and purification of coronavirus spike glycoproteins |
T152 |
72-350 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Human embryonic kidney 293 Freestyle (HEK293F) cells were transfected with mammalian-codon-optimised genes encoding 2P-stabilised SARS MERS and HKU1 S proteins containing a C-terminal T4 fibritin trimerization domain, an HRV3C cleavage site, an 8xHis-tag and a Twin-Strep-tag41. |
T153 |
351-424 |
Sentence |
denotes |
H3N2 Victoria 2011 hemagglutinin was also expressed in the HEK293F cells. |
T154 |
425-632 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The 200 ml cultures were harvested 6 days after transfection, filtered and purified by nickel-affinity chromatography and size exclusion chromatography using a SuperdexTM 16/600 75 pg column (GE Healthcare). |
T155 |
634-675 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Release and labelling of N-linked glycans |
T156 |
676-797 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Excised coronavirus S gel bands were washed alternately with acetonitrile and water before drying in a vacuum centrifuge. |
T157 |
798-892 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The bands were rehydrated with 100 μL of water and incubated with PNGase F at 37 °C overnight. |
T158 |
893-1155 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Aliquots of released N-linked glycans were also fluorescently labelled with procainamide, by adding 100 μL of labelling mixture (110 mg/mL procainamide and 60 mg/mL sodium cyanoborohydrate in 70% DMSO and 30% glacial acetic acid) and incubating for 4 h at 65 °C. |
T159 |
1156-1251 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Procainamide labelled glycans were purified using Spe-ed Amide 2 columns (Applied Separations). |
T160 |
1253-1282 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Glycan analysis by HILIC-UPLC |
T161 |
1283-1495 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Labelled glycans were analysed using a 2.1 mm × 150 mm Acquity BEH Glycan column (Waters) on an Acquity H-Class UPLC instrument (Waters), with fluorescence measurements occurring at λex = 310 nm and λem = 370 nm. |
T162 |
1496-1542 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The following gradient was used: time (t) = 0: |
T163 |
1543-1591 |
Sentence |
denotes |
22% A, 78% B (flow rate = 0.5 mL/min); t = 38.5: |
T164 |
1592-1632 |
Sentence |
denotes |
44.1% A, 55.9% B (0.5 mL/min); t = 39.5: |
T165 |
1633-1670 |
Sentence |
denotes |
100% A, 0% B (0.25 mL/min); t = 44.5: |
T166 |
1671-1708 |
Sentence |
denotes |
100% A, 0% B (0.25 mL/min); t = 46.5: |
T167 |
1709-1811 |
Sentence |
denotes |
22% A, 78% B (0.5 mL/min), where solvent A was 50 mM ammonium formate (pH 4.4) and B was acetonitrile. |
T168 |
1812-1992 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Quantification of oligomannose-type glycans was achieved by digestion of fluorescently labelled glycans with Endo H, and clean-up using a PVDF protein-binding membrane (Millipore). |
T169 |
1993-2050 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Empower 3 software (Waters) was used for data processing. |
T170 |
2052-2080 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Mass spectrometry of glycans |
T171 |
2081-2334 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Prior to ion-mobility electrospray ionisation MS and tandem MS analysis, PNGase F released N-linked glycans were purified on a Nafion® 117 membrane (Sigma-Aldrich) and a trace amount of ammonium phosphate was added to promote phosphate adduct formation. |
T172 |
2335-2751 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Glycans were analyzed by direct infusion using a Synapt G2Si instrument (Waters) with the following settings: capillary voltage, 0.8–1.0 kV; sample cone, 150 V; extraction cone, 150 V; cone gas, 40 l/h; source temperature, 80 °C; trap collision voltage, 4–160 V; transfer collision voltage, 4 V; trap DC bias, 60 V; IMS wave velocity, 450 m/s; IMS wave height, 40 V; trap gas flow, 2 ml/min; IMS gas flow, 80 ml/min. |
T173 |
2752-2849 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Data were acquired and processed with MassLynx v4.1 and Driftscope version 2.8 software (Waters). |
T174 |
2851-2885 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Mass spectrometry of glycopeptides |
T175 |
2886-2993 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Aliquots of 30–50 μg of coronavirus spikes were denatured, reduced and alkylated as described previously36. |
T176 |
2994-3138 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Proteins were proteolytically digested with trypsin (Promega), chymotrypsin (Promega), alpha-lytic protease (Sigma-Aldrich) and Glu-C (Promega). |
T177 |
3139-3282 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Reaction mixtures were dried and peptides/glycopeptides were extracted using C18 Zip-tip (MerckMilipore) following the manufacturer’s protocol. |
T178 |
3283-3494 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Samples were resuspended in 0.1% formic acid prior to analysis by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry using an Easy-nLC 1200 system coupled to an Orbitrap Fusion mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific). |
T179 |
3495-3723 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Glycopeptides were separated using an EasySpray PepMap RSLC C18 column (75 μm × 75 cm) with a 240-min linear solvent gradient of 0–32% acetonitrile in 0.1% formic acid, followed by 35 min of 80% acetonitrile in 0.1% formic acid. |
T180 |
3724-3871 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Other settings include an LC flow rate of 200 nL/min, spray voltage of 2.8 kV, capillary temperature of 275 °C, and an HCD collision energy of 50%. |
T181 |
3872-4003 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Precursor and fragmentation detection were performed using an Orbitrap at the following resolution: MS1 = 100,000 and MS2 = 30,000. |
T182 |
4004-4122 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The automatic gain control (AGC) targets were MS1 = 4e5 and MS2 = 5e4, and injection times were MS1 = 50 and MS2 = 54. |
T183 |
4123-4265 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The following cleavage sites were used for the respective proteases; trypsin=R/K, chymotrypsin=F/Y/W, alpha lytic protease=T/A/S/V, Glu C=E/D. |
T184 |
4266-4307 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Number of missed cleavages were set at 3. |
T185 |
4308-4355 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The following modifications were also included: |
T186 |
4356-4653 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Carbamidomethyl (+57.021464, target=C, fine control=fixed), Oxidation (+15.994915, target=M, fine control=variable rare 1), Glu to pyro-Glu (−18.010565, target=peptide N-term E, fine control=variable rare 1), and Gln to pyro-Glu (−17.026549, target peptide N-term Q, fine control=variable rare 1). |
T187 |
4654-4801 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Glycopeptide fragmentation data were extracted form raw files using ByonicTM (Version 3.5.0) and ByologicTM (Version 3.5-15; Protein Metrics Inc.). |
T188 |
4802-5013 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Glycopeptide fragmentation data were manually evaluated with true-positive assignments given when correct b- and y-fragments and oxonium ions corresponding to the peptide and glycan, respectively, were observed. |
T189 |
5014-5108 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The precursor mass tolerance was set at 4 ppm for precursor ions and 10 ppm for fragment ions. |
T190 |
5109-5202 |
Sentence |
denotes |
MS data were searched using a glycan library (SI Fig. 9) with the identical peptide sequence. |
T191 |
5203-5247 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A 1% false discovery rate (FDR) was applied. |
T192 |
5248-5465 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The extracted ion chromatographic areas for each true-positive glycopeptide, with the same amino-acid sequence, were compared to determine the relative quantitation of glycoforms at each specific N-linked glycan site. |
T193 |
5467-5485 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Model construction |
T194 |
5486-5759 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Structural models of N-linked glycan presentation on SARS, MERS and HKU1 S were created using electron microscopy structures (PDB ID 5X58, 5X59, and 5I08, respectively)9,11, along with complex-, hybrid-, and oligomannose-type N-linked glycans (PDB ID 4BYH, 4B7I, and 2WAH). |
T195 |
5760-5883 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The most dominant glycoform presented at each site was modelled on to the N-linked carbohydrate attachment sites in Coot68. |
T196 |
5885-5913 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Molecular evolution analysis |
T197 |
5914-6052 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Publicly available sequences encoding full-length GPC spike gene for SARS-CoV (3765 bp) were downloaded from GenBank and manually aligned. |
T198 |
6053-6134 |
Sentence |
denotes |
For MERS-CoV, we leveraged the whole genome alignment collated by Dudas et al.69. |
T199 |
6135-6261 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Specifically, the alignment corresponding to the spike gene was extracted (4059 bp), excluding sequences isolated from humans. |
T200 |
6262-6353 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Final alignments for SARS- and MERS-CoV corresponded to 70 and 100 sequences, respectively. |
T201 |
6354-6493 |
Sentence |
denotes |
For the dN/dS analysis, we first estimated Bayesian molecular clock phylogenies for SARS- and MERS-CoV independently using BEAST v 1.8.470. |
T202 |
6494-6661 |
Sentence |
denotes |
For both viruses, we assumed an uncorrelated log-normal distributed molecular clock71, Bayesian Skyline coalescent prior72 and a codon-structured substitution model73. |
T203 |
6662-6792 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Multiple independent MCMC runs of 10–20 million steps were executed to ensure that stationarity and convergence had been achieved. |
T204 |
6793-7086 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Empirical distributions of time-scaled phylogenies were obtained by combining (after the removal of burnin) the posterior tree distributions from the separate runs, which were subsequently used to estimate dN/dS ratios using the renaissance counting approach74,75 implemented in BEAST v 1.8.4. |
T205 |
7087-7300 |
Sentence |
denotes |
We also estimated per-site amino-acid diversity, which was calculated as the average number of amino-acid difference between two sequences at an amino-acid position in all possible pairs in the sequence alignment. |
T206 |
7302-7341 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Cryo-EM data analysis and visualization |
T207 |
7342-7473 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Single-particle cryo-EM data analysis of BG505 SOSIP.664 in complex with RM20A3 Fab was reproduced directly from Berndsen et al.51. |
T208 |
7474-7700 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Data for the SARS-CoV S 2P ectodomain was previously published52 and the final particle stack and alignment parameters from the published reconstruction were used for 3D variability analysis in the SPARX software package76,77. |
T209 |
7701-7835 |
Sentence |
denotes |
All metadata for these reconstructions along with raw data images and FSC resolution curves can be found in the original publications. |
T210 |
7836-7993 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In summary, both datasets were acquired on a FEI Titan Krios (Thermo Fisher) operating at 300 KeV equipped with a K2 Summit Direct Electron Detector (Gatan). |
T211 |
7994-8106 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Movie micrographs were aligned and dose weighted with MotionCor278 and CTF estimation was performed with Gctf79. |
T212 |
8107-8192 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Single-particle data processing was performed using CryoSparc v.280 and Relion v.381. |
T213 |
8193-8278 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Maps were low-pass filtered using a Gaussian kernel and visualized in UCSF chimera82. |
T214 |
8279-8445 |
Sentence |
denotes |
A detailed description of the auto-thresholding method used to set the isosurface value for visualisation of low-pass filtered maps can be found in Berndsen et al.51. |
T215 |
8447-8490 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Clustering analysis of viral glycan shields |
T216 |
8491-8704 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Solvent-accessible residues and interactions between N-linked glycans and amino-acid residues were calculated using Proteins, Interfaces, Structures and Assemblies (PISA) European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)83. |
T217 |
8705-8874 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Glycan shield density was calculated by the number of amino-acid residues interacting with glycans divided by the total number of solvent-accessible amino-acid residues. |
T218 |
8876-8893 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Reporting summary |
T219 |
8894-9010 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Further information on research design is available in the Nature Research Reporting Summary linked to this article. |