Beyond neutralization: Fc-dependent antibody effector functions in SARS-CoV-2 infection

A Zhang, HD Stacey, MR D'Agostino, Y Tugg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies are known to have a crucial role in protecting against SARS-CoV-2
infection and have been suggested to be a useful correlate of protection for vaccine clinical …

COVID-19 convalescent plasma and clinical trials: understanding conflicting outcomes

D Focosi, M Franchini, L Pirofski… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Convalescent plasma (CP) recurs as a frontline treatment in epidemics because it is
available as soon as there are survivors. The COVID-19 pandemic represented the first …

Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients infected by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2

J Zhang, N Chen, D Zhao, J Zhang, Z Hu… - Frontiers in medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Currently, as the omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) surges amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

COVID‐19 and plasma cells: Is there long‐lived protection?

DC Nguyen, PA Lamothe, MC Woodruff… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, the etiology of the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic, has
resulted in over 450 million cases with more than 6 million deaths worldwide, causing global …

Subclass-switched anti-spike IgG3 oligoclonal cocktails strongly enhance Fc-mediated opsonization

A Izadi, A Hailu, M Godzwon… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Antibodies play a central role in the immune defense against SARS-CoV-2. Emerging
evidence has shown that nonneutralizing antibodies are important for immune defense …

A third dose of the unmodified COVID-19 mRNA vaccine CVnCoV enhances quality and quantity of immune responses

K Lenart, F Hellgren, S Ols, X Yan, A Cagigi… - … Therapy-Methods & …, 2022 - cell.com
A third vaccine dose is often required to achieve potent, long-lasting immune responses. We
investigated the effect of three 8-μg doses of CVnCoV, CureVac's severe acute respiratory …

From a recombinant key antigen to an accurate, affordable serological test: Lessons learnt from COVID-19 for future pandemics

RGF Alvim, TM Lima, DAS Rodrigues, FF Marsili… - Biochemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Serological tests detect antibodies generated by infection or vaccination, and are
indispensable tools along different phases of a pandemic, from early monitoring of pathogen …

Design, structure and plasma binding of ancestral β-CoV scaffold antigens

D Hueting, K Schriever, R Sun, S Vlachiotis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We report the application of ancestral sequence reconstruction on coronavirus spike protein,
resulting in stable and highly soluble ancestral scaffold antigens (AnSAs). The AnSAs …

[HTML][HTML] Protective effect and molecular mechanisms of human non-neutralizing cross-reactive spike antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination

JJ Clark, I Hoxie, DC Adelsberg, IA Sapse… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Neutralizing antibodies correlate with protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Recent studies, however, show that binding antibody titers, in …

[HTML][HTML] Protective non-neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies

A Izadi, P Nordenfelt - Trends in Immunology, 2024 - cell.com
Recent studies show an important role for non-neutralizing anti-spike antibodies, including
monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), in robustly protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection. These …