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. 2021 Oct 12;7(4):368–398. doi: 10.3934/microbiol.2021023

Table 5. Nanobodies against SARS-CoV-2.

Study Findings Effective inhibitory concentration
Xu et al. [160] anti-RBD nanobodies isolated from llamas and from engineered mice neutralized SARS-CoV-2 variants In picomolar range
Güttler et al. [161] The nanobodies bound the open and closed states of the Spike protein and interacted tightly with RBD domain. The nanobodies were found to be highly thermo stable at 95 °C 17–50 pM
Sziemel et al. [162] Recombinant alpaca antibodies neutralized live virus of B.1.351 variant of concern of SARS-CoV-2 IC50< 3nM
Custódio et al. [163] Nanobodies, Sb23, isolated from a synthetic library, sybodies (Sb), targeted the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and able to neutralized pseudoviruse IC50 of 0.6µg/mL
Ye et al. [164] The nanobody Nanosota-1 can bound to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein thus blocking out ACE2 binding to the RBD. Single dose of Nanosota-1 showed therapeutic efficacy in a hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Neutralization dose 50% (ND50) of 0.16 µg/mL
Pymm et al. [158] Nanobody cocktails administered prophylactically reduced viral loads and infection in mice challenged with the N501Y D614G SARS-CoV-2 virus variant half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) = 0.1 nM
Hanke et al. [165] The alpaca derived nanobody, Ty1, prevented binding of SARS-CoV-2 RBD to its host cell receptor ACE2. The Ty1 nanobody can easily be expressed in bacteria with very high yield (>30 mg/L culture) IC50 of 0.77 µg/mL (54nM)
Nambulli et al. [166] Pittsburgh inhalable Nanobody 21 (PiN-21), which can be delivered intranasally, prevented and treated SARS-CoV-2 infection in Syrian hamsters 0.2 mg/kg
Esparza et al. [167] NIH-CoVnb-112 nanobody blocked SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyped lentivirus infection of HEK293 cells expressing human ACE2 EC50 of 0.3µg/mL
Xiang et al. [168] The nanobodies showed very high affinity (~10 pM) with RBD of spike protein and able to neutralize pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2 half-maximal inhibitory concentration as low as 0.058 ng/mL)
Koenig et al. [169] Nanobodies able to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-2–pseudotyped vesicular stomatitis virus IC50 value of 60 nM
Lu et al. [170] Nanobodies Nb91-hFc and Nb3-hFc against spike protein and its RBD domain neutralized spike pseudotyped viruses in vitro IC50 of 1.54 nM