Multidrug-resistant mutations to antiviral and antibody therapy in an immunocompromised patient infected with SARS-CoV-2

Y Hirotsu, H Kobayashi, Y Kakizaki, A Saito, T Tsutsui… - Med, 2023 - cell.com
Background Antiviral and antibody therapies for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are being recommended for high-risk patients, but the potential …

Prescription of anti-spike monoclonal antibodies in COVID-19 patients with resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in Italy

D Focosi, M Tuccori - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anti-Spike monoclonal antibodies have been considered a promising approach to COVID-
19 therapy. Unfortunately, the advent of resistant lineages jeopardized their effectiveness …

Influence of treatment with neutralizing monoclonal antibodies on the SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal load and quasispecies

C Vellas, A Del Bello, A Debard, Z Steinmeyer… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To evaluate the impact of neutralizing monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment and
to determine whether the selective pressure of mAbs could facilitate the proliferation of …

Somatic hypermutation introduces bystander mutations that prepare SARS-CoV-2 antibodies for emerging variants

M Korenkov, M Zehner, H Cohen-Dvashi… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Somatic hypermutation (SHM) drives affinity maturation and continues over months in SARS-
CoV-2-neutralizing antibodies (nAbs). However, several potent SARS-CoV-2 antibodies …

Evolution of spike mutations following antibody treatment in two immunocompromised patients with persistent COVID‐19 infection

Y Bronstein, A Adler, H Katash, O Halutz… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immunocompromised patients have an increased risk of persistent COVID‐19 disease. We
report here the clinical course of two patients with hematologic malignancies hospitalized …

Evolution of a globally unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike E484T monoclonal antibody escape mutation in a persistently infected, immunocompromised individual

PJ Halfmann, NR Minor, LA Haddock III… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Prolonged infections in immunocompromised individuals may be a source for novel Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants, particularly when both …

A SARS-CoV-2 variant elicits an antibody response with a shifted immunodominance hierarchy

AJ Greaney, TN Starr, RT Eguia, AN Loes… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Many SARS-CoV-2 variants have mutations at key sites targeted by antibodies. However, it
is unknown if antibodies elicited by infection with these variants target the same or different …

Evaluation of bebtelovimab for treatment of COVID-19 during the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant era

EK McCreary, KE Kip, K Collins… - Open Forum …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment is associated with decreased risk of
hospitalization and death in high-risk outpatients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease …

Antibodies targeting a quaternary site on SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein prevent viral receptor engagement by conformational locking

L Liu, RG Casner, Y Guo, Q Wang, S Iketani, JFW Chan… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, with many variants evading clinically authorized
antibodies. To isolate monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with broadly neutralizing capacities …

Evolving spike mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants facilitate evasion from breakthrough infection-acquired antibodies

S Chen, Z Huang, Y Guo, H Guo, L Jian, J Xiao, X Yao… - Cell Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Dear Editor, SARS-CoV-2 inevitably evolves toward being more robust at multiplying. In the
herd immunity era, mutations allowing SARS-CoV-2 to bypass the immunity acquired from …