Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C Xie, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

Fc-γR-dependent antibody effector functions are required for vaccine-mediated protection against antigen-shifted variants of SARS-CoV-2

SR Mackin, P Desai, BM Whitener, CE Karl, M Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants with
antigenic changes in the spike protein are neutralized less efficiently by serum antibodies …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal analysis of serum neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 2, BA. 4, and BA. 5 in patients receiving monoclonal antibodies

T Bruel, K Stéfic, Y Nguyen, D Toniutti, I Staropoli… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
The emergence of Omicron sublineages impacts the therapeutic efficacy of anti-severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) …

Structures of Omicron spike complexes and implications for neutralizing antibody development

H Guo, Y Gao, T Li, T Li, Y Lu, L Zheng, Y Liu, T Yang… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is dominant in many countries
worldwide. The high number of spike mutations is responsible for the broad immune evasion …

COVID‐19 and plasma cells: Is there long‐lived protection?

DC Nguyen, PA Lamothe, MC Woodruff… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, the etiology of the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic, has
resulted in over 450 million cases with more than 6 million deaths worldwide, causing global …

Resilience of S309 and AZD7442 monoclonal antibody treatments against infection by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineage strains

JB Case, S Mackin, JM Errico, Z Chong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Omicron variant strains encode large numbers of changes in the spike protein compared to
historical SARS-CoV-2 isolates. Although in vitro studies have suggested that several …

Identification of broad, potent antibodies to functionally constrained regions of SARS-CoV-2 spike following a breakthrough infection

J Guenthoer, M Lilly, TN Starr… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The antiviral benefit of antibodies can be compromised by viral escape especially for rapidly
evolving viruses. Therefore, durable, effective antibodies must be both broad and potent to …

Engineered ACE2-Fc counters murine lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection through direct neutralization and Fc-effector activities

Y Chen, L Sun, I Ullah, G Beaudoin-Bussières… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) constitutes an attractive antiviral capable
of targeting a wide range of coronaviruses using ACE2 as their receptor. Using structure …

Protective mechanisms of nonneutralizing antiviral antibodies

TL Chandler, A Yang, CE Otero, SR Permar… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Antibodies that can bind to viruses but are unable to block infection in cell culture are known
as “nonneutralizing antibodies.” Such antibodies are nearly universally elicited following …