Engineering SARS-CoV-2 specific cocktail antibodies into a bispecific format improves neutralizing potency and breadth

Z Ku, X Xie, J Lin, P Gao, B Wu, A El Sahili, H Su… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One major limitation of neutralizing antibody-based COVID-19 therapy is the requirement of
costly cocktails to reduce emergence of antibody resistance. Here we engineer two …

Combating the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (BA. 1) and BA. 2 with potent bispecific antibodies engineered from non-Omicron neutralizing antibodies

Y Wang, X Zhang, Y Ma, Y Wang, W Zhan, Q Zheng… - Cell Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The highly mutated and transmissible Omicron (BA. 1) and its more contagious lineage BA.
2 have provoked serious concerns over their decreased sensitivity to the current COVID-19 …

Low-dose in vivo protection and neutralization across SARS-CoV-2 variants by monoclonal antibody combinations

V Dussupt, RS Sankhala, L Mendez-Rivera… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prevention of viral escape and increased coverage against severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern require therapeutic monoclonal …

Cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies from deep mining of early patient responses

G Bullen, JD Galson, G Hall, P Villar, L Moreels… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Passive immunization using monoclonal antibodies will play a vital role in the fight against
COVID-19. The recent emergence of viral variants with reduced sensitivity to some current …

Screening of potent neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 using convalescent patients-derived phage-display libraries

Y Pan, J Du, J Liu, H Wu, F Gui, N Zhang, X Deng… - Cell Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
As the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to
threaten public health worldwide, the development of effective interventions is urgently …

Structural insights into the cross-neutralization of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 by the human monoclonal antibody 47D11

J Fedry, DL Hurdiss, C Wang, W Li, G Obal, I Drulyte… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 antibody escape mutations highlights the urgent need for
broadly neutralizing therapeutics. We previously identified a human monoclonal antibody …

The humoral response and antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 infection

H Qi, B Liu, X Wang, L Zhang - Nature Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we have gained many insights into the
human antibody response to the causative SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this Review, we …

Molecular strategies for antibody binding and escape of SARS-CoV-2 and its mutations

M Hendy, S Kaufman, M Ponga - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than 200 million
people worldwide. Due to the rapid spreading of SARS-CoV-2 and its impact, it is paramount …

Dissecting antibody-mediated protection against SARS-CoV-2

T Zohar, G Alter - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the properties and mechanisms by which antibodies provide protection is
essential to defining immunity. Although neutralizing antibodies have been proposed as a …

IMM-BCP-01, a patient-derived anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibody cocktail, is active across variants of concern including Omicron BA. 1 and BA. 2

PA Nikitin, JM DiMuzio, JP Dowling, NB Patel… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Monoclonal antibodies are an efficacious therapy against severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, rapid viral mutagenesis led to escape …