Passive immunotherapy of viral infections:'super-antibodies' enter the fray

LM Walker, DR Burton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Antibodies have been used for more than 100 years in the therapy of infectious diseases,
but a new generation of highly potent and/or broadly cross-reactive human monoclonal …

Antibody responses to viral infections: a structural perspective across three different enveloped viruses

CD Murin, IA Wilson, AB Ward - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antibodies serve as critical barriers to viral infection. Humoral immunity to a virus is achieved
through the dual role of antibodies in communicating the presence of invading pathogens in …

A human pluripotent stem cell-based platform to study SARS-CoV-2 tropism and model virus infection in human cells and organoids

L Yang, Y Han, BE Nilsson-Payant, V Gupta, P Wang… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need for
physiological models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection using human disease-relevant cells …

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors using lung and colonic organoids

Y Han, X Duan, L Yang, BE Nilsson-Payant, P Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
There is an urgent need to create novel models using human disease-relevant cells to study
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) biology and to facilitate …

Epitope-based vaccine design yields fusion peptide-directed antibodies that neutralize diverse strains of HIV-1

K Xu, P Acharya, R Kong, C Cheng, GY Chuang… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
A central goal of HIV-1 vaccine research is the elicitation of antibodies capable of
neutralizing diverse primary isolates of HIV-1. Here we show that focusing the immune …

A role for Fc function in therapeutic monoclonal antibody-mediated protection against Ebola virus

BM Gunn, WH Yu, MM Karim, JM Brannan… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
The recent Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic highlighted the need for effective vaccines and
therapeutics to limit and prevent outbreaks. Host antibodies against EBOV are critical for …

Evaluation of cell-based and surrogate SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assays

AM Sholukh, A Fiore-Gartland, ES Ford… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Determinants of protective immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection require the development of well-standardized, reproducible …

Antivirals with common targets against highly pathogenic viruses

L Lu, S Su, H Yang, S Jiang - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Historically, emerging viruses appear constantly and have cost millions of human lives.
Currently, climate change and intense globalization have created favorable conditions for …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic analysis of monoclonal antibodies against Ebola virus GP defines features that contribute to protection

EO Saphire, SL Schendel, ML Fusco, K Gangavarapu… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Antibodies are promising post-exposure therapies against emerging viruses, but which
antibody features and in vitro assays best forecast protection are unclear. Our international …

Longitudinal analysis of the human B cell response to Ebola virus infection

CW Davis, KJL Jackson, AK McElroy, P Halfmann… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) remains a public health threat. We performed a longitudinal study of B
cell responses to EBOV in four survivors of the 2014 West African outbreak. Infection …