Altered somatic hypermutation patterns in COVID-19 patients classifies disease severity

M Safra, Z Tamari, P Polak, S Shiber, M Matan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The success of the human body in fighting SARS-CoV2 infection relies on
lymphocytes and their antigen receptors. Identifying and characterizing clinically relevant …

[HTML][HTML] An explainable language model for antibody specificity prediction using curated influenza hemagglutinin antibodies

Y Wang, H Lv, R Lei, YH Yeung, IR Shen, D Choi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite decades of antibody research, it remains challenging to predict the specificity of an
antibody solely based on its sequence. Two major obstacles are the lack of appropriate …

Primary exposure to SARS-CoV-2 variants elicits convergent epitope specificities, immunoglobulin V gene usage and public B cell clones

NS Lima, M Musayev, TS Johnston, DA Wagner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
An important consequence of infection with a SARS-CoV-2 variant is protective humoral
immunity against other variants. However, the basis for such cross-protection at the …

B cell repertoire sequencing of HIV-1 pediatric elite-neutralizers identifies multiple broadly neutralizing antibody clonotypes

S Kumar, P Bajpai, C Joyce, SK Kabra… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction A limited subset of HIV-1 infected adult individuals typically after at least 2-3
years of chronic infection, develop broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs), suggesting that …

Convergent sequence features of antiviral B cells

AA Abu-Shmais, MJ Vukovich, PT Wasdin, YP Suresh… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Throughout life, humans experience repeated exposure to viral antigens through infection
and vaccination, building diverse antigen-specific antibody repertoires. In recent years …

Light chain of a public SARS-CoV-2 class-3 antibody modulates neutralization against Omicron

A Patel, S Kumar, L Lai, M Keen, R Valanparambil… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The pairing of antibody genes IGHV2-5/IGLV2-14 is established as a public immune
response that potently cross-neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Omicron, by …

ChatGPT and mycosis–a new weapon in the knowledge battlefield

Y Jin, H Liu, B Zhao, W Pan - BMC infectious diseases, 2023 - Springer
As current trend for physician tools, ChatGPT can sift through massive amounts of
information and solve problems through easy-to-understand conversations, ultimately …

[HTML][HTML] Broad SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by monoclonal and bispecific antibodies derived from a Gamma-infected individual

D Guerra, T Beaumont, L Radić, G Kerster… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has remained a medical threat due to the evolution of multiple variants that acquire …

Frequent use of IGHV3-30-3 in SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses

P Pushparaj, A Nicoletto, X Castro Dopico… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 shows biased immunoglobulin heavy chain variable
(IGHV) gene usage, allowing definition of genetic signatures for some classes of neutralizing …

Advances in antibody discovery from human BCR repertoires

Z Xu, HS Ismanto, H Zhou, DS Saputri… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Antibodies make up an important and growing class of compounds used for the diagnosis or
treatment of disease. While traditional antibody discovery utilized immunization of animals to …