Structural basis for potent neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 and role of antibody affinity maturation

NK Hurlburt, E Seydoux, YH Wan, VV Edara… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… Herein, we present the 2.75 Å crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 RBD in complex with the
Fab of CV30, assess the role of affinity maturation and determine in details its mechanism of …

[HTML][HTML] Affinity maturation of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies confers potency, breadth, and resilience to viral escape mutations

F Muecksch, Y Weisblum, CO Barnes, F Schmidt… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
… In the case of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an
understanding of how viral variants evade antibodies and how affinity maturation could generate …

Antibody affinity maturation and cross-variant activity following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination: Impact of prior exposure and sex

J Tang, G Grubbs, Y Lee, C Huang, S Ravichandran… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
… -induced antibody affinity maturation and difference in antibody affinity between males
and … affinity may contribute to correlates of protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. …

Structure Based Affinity Maturation and Characterizing of SARS-CoV Antibody CR3022 against SARS-CoV-2 by Computational and Experimental Approaches

W Yu, N Zhong, X Li, J Ren, Y Wang, C Li, G Yao… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
… to study the affinity maturation of CR3022 antibody in vitro, the findings provide useful
insights for the development of anti- SARS-CoV-2 antibody drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. …

Structure-guided affinity maturation of a novel human antibody targeting the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein

Z Wang, N Hu, Y Zhou, N Shi, B Shen, L Luo… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
… Our research not only provides a new method for antibody affinity maturation based on
computer modelling but also provides three high-affinity scFv fragments targeting the SARS-CoV-…

Antibody affinity maturation and plasma IgA associate with clinical outcome in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

J Tang, S Ravichandran, Y Lee, G Grubbs… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… As of September 2020, the numbers of SARS CoV-2 infected individuals in the world
surpassed 34 million and the rate of mortality is around 4–6% globally 1 . The disease …

Single point mutations can potentially enhance infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 revealed by in silico affinity maturation and SPR assay

T Xue, W Wu, N Guo, C Wu, J Huang, L Lai, H Liu… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
… be consistent enough, SARS-CoV-2 is … affinity, which may escape future treatments. Thus
inspiring us to make precautionary therapeutics in the near future. 13 In silico affinity maturation

High activity of an affinity-matured ACE2 decoy against Omicron SARS-CoV-2 and pre-emergent coronaviruses

JJ Sims, S Lian, RL Meggersee, A Kasimsetty… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… the related pandemic sarbecovirus, SARS-CoV-1 [25]. In this study, we have shown that the
affinity-matured decoy retains broad neutralizing activity against every SARS-CoV-2 variant …

Structural basis of Omicron neutralization by affinity-matured public antibodies

DJ Sheward, P Pushparaj, H Das, C Kim, S Kim… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
… following SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination, their subsequent affinity maturation is of …
antibodies to develop broad cross-neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 through affinity maturation. …

Structural basis of broad SARS-CoV-2 cross-neutralization by affinity-matured public antibodies

DJ Sheward, P Pushparaj, H Das, AJ Greaney… - Cell Reports …, 2024 - cell.com
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant now account for almost all SARS-CoV-2 …
affinity maturation in the development of cross-neutralization by a public class of antibodies. …