About the Authors

Yan Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally to this study

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Yanping Hu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally to this study

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Zhiqiang Ku

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jason Yeung

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Jing Zou

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Michael Woodson

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Nikolai S. Prokhorov

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Ekaterina S. Knyazhanskaya

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Haiqing Zhao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Michael B. Sherman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Zhiqiang An

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen F. Carroll

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IGM Biosciences Inc., 325 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Pei-Yong Shi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Petr G. Leiman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pgleiman@utmb.edu (PGM); xuxie@utmb.edu (XX)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Xuping Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pgleiman@utmb.edu (PGM); xuxie@utmb.edu (XX)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Drug Discovery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: the University of Texas System has filed a patent on the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and the reverse genetic system, and reporter SARS-CoV-2. The University of Texas System and IGM Biosciences Inc. have filed a joint patent on the SARS-CoV-2 IgM antibodies. S.F.C. was an employee of IGM Biosciences, Inc. during this study. Other authors declare no competing interests.