Neutralizing antibodies to block viral entry and for identification of entry inhibitors

EH Tam, Y Peng, MXY Cheah, C Yan, T Xiao - Antiviral Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) are naturally produced by our immune system to combat viral
infections. Clinically, neutralizing antibodies with potent efficacy and high specificity have …

[HTML][HTML] Nanobody repertoire generated against the spike protein of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 remains efficacious against the rapidly evolving virus

NE Ketaren, FD Mast, PC Fridy, JP Olivier, T Sanyal… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
To date, all major modes of monoclonal antibody therapy targeting SARS-CoV-2 have lost
significant efficacy against the latest circulating variants. As SARS-CoV-2 omicron …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal viral shedding and antibody response characteristics of men with acute infection of monkeypox virus: a prospective cohort study

Y Yang, S Niu, C Shen, L Yang, S Song, Y Peng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding of infection dynamics is important for public health measures against
monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection. Herein, samples from multiple body sites and …

Principles of antibodies with ultralong complementarity-determining regions and picobodies

M Passon, S De Smedt, HL Svilenov - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
In contrast to other species, cattle possess exceptional antibodies with ultra-long
complementarity-determining regions (ulCDRs) that can consist of 40-70 amino acids. The …

[HTML][HTML] Unglycosylated Soluble SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) Produced in E. coli Combined with the Army Liposomal Formulation Containing QS21 …

A Balasubramaniyam, E Ryan, D Brown, T Hamza… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The emergence of novel potentially pandemic pathogens necessitates the rapid
manufacture and deployment of effective, stable, and locally manufacturable vaccines on a …

[HTML][HTML] Infections associated with SARS-CoV-2 exploited via nanoformulated photodynamic therapy

P Pallavi, K Harini, N Elboughdiri, P Gowtham… - ADMET and …, 2023 - hrcak.srce.hr
Background and purpose The pandemic of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for
managing infectious diseases, which spreads by airborne transmission leading to serious …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced potency of an IgM-like nanobody targeting conserved epitope in SARS-CoV-2 spike N-terminal domain

B Liu, H Liu, P Han, X Wang, C Wang, X Yan… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Almost all the neutralizing antibodies targeting the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of spike
(S) protein show weakened or lost efficacy against severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] A bovine antibody possessing an ultralong complementarity-determining region CDRH3 targets a highly conserved epitope in sarbecovirus spike proteins

MJ Burke, JNF Scott, TC Minshull, Z Gao… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Broadly neutralizing antibodies have huge potential as novel antiviral therapeutics due to
their ability to recognize highly conserved epitopes that are seldom mutated in viral variants …

Omicron BA. 2 specifically evades broad sarbecovirus neutralizing antibodies

Y Cao, A Yisimayi, F Jian, T Xiao, W Song, J Wang… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Omicron sub-lineage BA. 2 has rapidly surged globally, accounting for over 60% of recent
SARS-CoV-2 infections. Newly acquired RBD mutations and high transmission advantage …

Immune targets to stop future SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Silva Souza, J Pires Farias, W Barros Luiz… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The SARS-COV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) accumulated mutations that confer to the viral
particle a higher infectivity as well as a capacity to escape neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) …