Mucosal vaccines for SARS-CoV-2: triumph of hope over experience

D Pilapitiya, AK Wheatley, HX Tan - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines administered parenterally induce robust systemic
humoral and cellular responses. While highly effective against severe disease, there is …

Fc-engineered therapeutic antibodies: recent advances and future directions

DT Abdeldaim, K Schindowski - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monoclonal therapeutic antibodies have revolutionized the treatment of cancer and other
diseases. Fc engineering aims to enhance the effector functions or half-life of therapeutic …

Probing long COVID through a proteomic lens: a comprehensive two-year longitudinal cohort study of hospitalised survivors

X Gu, S Wang, W Zhang, C Li, L Guo, Z Wang, H Li… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background As a debilitating condition that can impact a whole spectrum of people and
involve multi-organ systems, long COVID has aroused the most attention than ever …

Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 S2-only antigen provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge

CL Hsieh, SR Leist, EH Miller, L Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) have diminished the
effectiveness of therapeutic antibodies and vaccines. Developing a coronavirus vaccine that …

High-resolution map of the Fc functions mediated by COVID-19-neutralizing antibodies

I Paciello, G Maccari, E Pantano… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
A growing body of evidence shows that fragment crystallizable (Fc)-dependent antibody
effector functions play an important role in protection from severe acute respiratory …

[HTML][HTML] Preexisting immunity restricts mucosal antibody recognition of SARS-CoV-2 and Fc profiles during breakthrough infections

KJ Selva, P Ramanathan, ER Haycroft, A Reynaldi… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding mucosal antibody responses from SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or vaccination
is crucial to develop strategies for longer term immunity, especially against emerging viral …

Discovery of highly neutralizing human antibodies targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A Simonis, C Kreer, A Albus, K Rox, B Yuan… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) poses an emerging threat to human health
with urgent need for alternative therapeutic approaches. Here, we deciphered the B cell and …

SARS-CoV-2: immunity, challenges with current vaccines, and a novel perspective on mucosal vaccines

R Sunagar, A Singh, S Kumar - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has played a critical role in reducing pandemic
spread, disease severity, hospitalizations, and deaths. However, the first-generation …

Vaccine-induced correlate of protection against fatal COVID-19 in older and frail adults during waves of neutralization-resistant variants of concern: an observational …

L Vikström, P Fjällström, YD Gwon… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background To inform future preventive measures including repeated vaccinations, we have
searched for a clinically useful immune correlate of protection against fatal COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Monoclonal antibodies as COVID-19 prophylaxis therapy in immunocompromised patient populations

J Cowan, A Amson, A Christofides, Z Chagla - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The objective of this review was to examine the latest literature regarding the effectiveness
of monoclonal antibodies as COVID-19 prophylaxis therapy for immunocompromised patient …