Recent advances using genetic therapies against infectious diseases and for vaccination

A Galy, B Berkhout, K Breckpot, C Pichon… - Human gene …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
The development of prophylatic or therapeutic medicines for infectious diseases is one of
the priorities for health organizations worldwide. Innovative solutions are required to achieve …

[HTML][HTML] Immune literacy: reading, writing, and editing adaptive immunity

L Csepregi, RA Ehling, B Wagner, ST Reddy - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Advances in reading, writing, and editing DNA are providing unprecedented insights into the
complexity of immunological systems. This combination of systems and synthetic biology …

Gene editing of primary rhesus macaque B cells

H Hartweger, R Gautam, Y Nishimura… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2023 - jove.com
B cells and their progeny are the sources of highly expressed antibodies. Their high protein
expression capabilities together with their abundance, easy accessibility via peripheral …

Reprogramming human B cells with custom heavy-chain antibodies

GL Rogers, C Huang, A Mathur, X Huang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The immunoglobulin locus of B cells can be reprogrammed by genome editing to produce
custom or non-natural antibodies that are not induced by immunization. However, current …

Validation of ligand tetramers for the detection of antigen-specific lymphocytes

KS Fitzpatrick, HN Degefu, K Poljakov… - The Journal of …, 2023 - journals.aai.org
The study of Ag-specific lymphocytes has been a key advancement in immunology over the
past few decades. The development of multimerized probes containing Ags, peptide: MHC …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo affinity maturation of murine B cells reprogrammed to express human antibodies

Y Yin, Y Guo, Y Jiang, B Quinlan, H Peng, G Crynen… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CRISPR-edited murine B cells engineered to express human antibody variable chains
proliferate, class switch, and secrete these antibodies in vaccinated mice. However, current …

Adoptive B cell therapy for chronic viral infection

YR Chung, T Dangi, N Palacio, S Sanchez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
T cell-based therapies have been widely explored for the treatment of cancer and chronic
infection, but B cell-based therapies have remained largely unexplored. To study the effect …

Progress in novel delivery technologies to improve efficacy of therapeutic antibodies

W Sun, Y Wu, T Ying - Antiviral Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics have achieved remarkable success in treating a
wide range of human diseases. However, conventional systemic delivery methods have …

B-cell engineering: A promising approach towards vaccine development for COVID-19

MA Faiq - Medical Hypotheses, 2020 - Elsevier
With the number of cases crossing six million (and more than three hundred and seventy
thousand deaths) worldwide, there is a dire need of a vaccine (and repurposing of drugs) for …

Generation of recombinant primary human B lymphocytes using non-viral vectors

D Keim, K Gollner, U Gollner, V Jérôme… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although the development of gene delivery systems based on non-viral vectors is
advancing, it remains a challenge to deliver plasmid DNA into human blood cells. The …