Applications and prospects of cryo-EM in drug discovery

KF Zhu, C Yuan, YM Du, KL Sun, XK Zhang… - Military Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Drug discovery is a crucial part of human healthcare and has dramatically benefited human
lifespan and life quality in recent centuries, however, it is usually time-and effort-consuming …

An overview of human anti-HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies against diverse epitopes of HIV-1

S Kumar, S Singh, K Luthra - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this Review, we have addressed some recent developments in the discovery and
applications of anti-human immunodeficiency virus type− 1 (HIV− 1) broadly neutralizing …

Anti–immune complex antibodies are elicited during repeated immunization with HIV Env immunogens

S Brown, A Antanasijevic, LM Sewall, DM Garcia… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Vaccination strategies against HIV-1 aim to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs)
using prime-boost regimens with HIV envelope (Env) immunogens. Epitope mapping has …

Priming antibody responses to the fusion peptide in rhesus macaques

CA Cottrell, PP Pratap, KM Cirelli, DG Carnathan… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Immunodominance of antibodies targeting non-neutralizing epitopes and the high level of
somatic hypermutation within germinal centers (GCs) required for most HIV broadly …

Application of germline antibody features to vaccine development, antibody discovery, antibody optimization and disease diagnosis

Y Zhang, Q Li, L Luo, C Duan, J Shen, Z Wang - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the efficacy and commercial success of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies have
been tremendous, designing and discovering new drug candidates remains a labor-, time …

Label-free microscopy for virus infections

A Petkidis, V Andriasyan, UF Greber - Microscopy, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Microscopy has been essential to elucidate micro-and nano-scale processes in space and
time and has provided insights into cell and organismic functions. It is widely employed in …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery medicine–the HVTN's iterative approach to developing an HIV-1 broadly neutralizing vaccine

TM Martin, ST Robinson, Y Huang - Current Opinion in HIV and …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
In the past two decades, there has been an explosion in the discovery of HIV-1 broadly
neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and associated vaccine strategies to induce them. This …

Linguistics-based formalization of the antibody language as a basis for antibody language models

MH Vu, PA Robert, R Akbar, B Swiatczak… - Nature Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Apparent parallels between natural language and antibody sequences have led to a surge
in deep language models applied to antibody sequences for predicting cognate antigen …

Predicting adaptive immune receptor specificities by machine learning is a data generation problem

DM Mason, ST Reddy - Cell Systems, 2024 - cell.com
Determining the specificity of adaptive immune receptors—B cell receptors (BCRs), their
secreted form antibodies, and T cell receptors (TCRs)—is critical for understanding immune …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-EM uniqueness in structure determination of macromolecular complexes: A selected structural anthology

S Azinas, M Carroni - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become in the past 10 years one of the major
tools for the structure determination of proteins. Nowadays, the structure prediction field is …