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 …

Potent and protective IGHV3-53/3-66 public antibodies and their shared escape mutant on the spike of SARS-CoV-2

Q Zhang, B Ju, J Ge, JFW Chan, L Cheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) to SARS-CoV-2 hold powerful potentials for clinical
interventions against COVID-19 disease. However, their common genetic and biologic …

Structural basis for potent antibody neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants including B. 1.1. 529

T Zhou, L Wang, J Misasi, A Pegu, Y Zhang, DR Harris… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The rapid spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) B.
1.1. 529 (Omicron) variant and its resistance to neutralization by vaccinee and convalescent …

A potently neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibody inhibits variants of concern by utilizing unique binding residues in a highly conserved epitope

LA VanBlargan, LJ Adams, Z Liu, RE Chen, P Gilchuk… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
With the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
variants with increased transmissibility and potential resistance, antibodies and vaccines …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous evaluation of antibodies that inhibit SARS-CoV-2 variants via multiplex assay

E Lopez, ER Haycroft, A Adair, FL Mordant, MT O'Neill… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain (RBD) is both the principal target of neutralizing
antibodies and one of the most rapidly evolving domains, which can result in the emergence …

SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape

TN Starr, N Czudnochowski, Z Liu, F Zatta, YJ Park… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
An ideal therapeutic anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody would resist viral escape,–, have activity
against diverse sarbecoviruses,,–, and be highly protective through viral neutralization,,–and …

A panel of human neutralizing mAbs targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike at multiple epitopes

T Noy-Porat, E Makdasi, R Alcalay, A Mechaly… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The novel highly transmissible human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of
the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus far, there is no approved therapeutic drug specifically …

Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants

Y Weisblum, F Schmidt, F Zhang, J DaSilva, D Poston… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Neutralizing antibodies elicited by prior infection or vaccination are likely to be key for future
protection of individuals and populations against SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, passively …

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 …

Genetic and structural basis for SARS-CoV-2 variant neutralization by a two-antibody cocktail

J Dong, SJ Zost, AJ Greaney, TN Starr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the molecular basis for immune recognition of SARS-CoV-2 spike
glycoprotein antigenic sites will inform the development of improved therapeutics. We …