A critical overview of current progress for COVID-19: development of vaccines, antiviral drugs, and therapeutic antibodies

M Kumari, RM Lu, MC Li, JL Huang, FF Hsu… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic remains a global public health crisis,
presenting a broad range of challenges. To help address some of the main problems, the …

Antiviral neutralizing antibodies: from in vitro to in vivo activity

DR Burton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) are being increasingly used as passive antiviral reagents in
prophylactic and therapeutic modalities and to guide viral vaccine design. In vivo, nAbs can …

Monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19 therapy and SARS-CoV-2 detection

YC Hwang, RM Lu, SC Su, PY Chiang, SH Ko… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an exceptional public
health crisis that demands the timely creation of new therapeutics and viral detection. Owing …

Ebola virus persistence and disease recrudescence in the brains of antibody-treated nonhuman primate survivors

J Liu, JC Trefry, AM Babka, CW Schellhase… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Effective therapeutics have been developed against acute Ebola virus disease (EVD) in both
humans and experimentally infected nonhuman primates. However, the risk of viral …

Structural and functional aspects of Ebola virus proteins

S Jain, E Martynova, A Rizvanov, S Khaiboullina… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ebola virus (EBOV), member of genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, have a non-segmented,
single-stranded RNA that contains seven genes:(a) nucleoprotein (NP),(b) viral protein 35 …

The development of broad-spectrum antiviral medical countermeasures to treat viral hemorrhagic fevers caused by natural or weaponized virus infections

MR Hickman, DL Saunders, CA Bigger… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Defense (JPEO-CBRND) began development of a broad-spectrum antiviral countermeasure …

Forward and reverse translational approaches to predict efficacy of neutralizing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antibody prophylaxis

BM Maas, J Lommerse, N Plock, RA Railkar… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Neutralizing mAbs can prevent communicable viral diseases. MK-1654 is a
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) F glycoprotein neutralizing monoclonal antibody (mAb) …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-ebolavirus protective therapy by two multifunctional human antibodies

P Gilchuk, CD Murin, RW Cross, PA Ilinykh, K Huang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Ebolaviruses cause a severe and often fatal illness with the potential for global spread.
Monoclonal antibody-based treatments that have become available recently have a narrow …

mAb therapy controls CNS‐resident lyssavirus infection via a CD4 T cell‐dependent mechanism

KE Mastraccio, C Huaman, SAA Coggins… - EMBO Molecular …, 2023 - embopress.org
Infections with rabies virus (RABV) and related lyssaviruses are uniformly fatal once virus
accesses the central nervous system (CNS) and causes disease signs. Current …

Cheminformatics-based study identifies potential ebola VP40 inhibitors

E Broni, C Ashley, J Adams, H Manu, E Aikins… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Ebola virus (EBOV) is still highly infectious and causes severe hemorrhagic fevers in
primates. However, there are no regulatorily approved drugs against the Ebola virus disease …