Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

Bispecific antibodies: design, therapy, perspectives

SE Sedykh, VV Prinz, VN Buneva… - Drug design …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Antibodies (Abs) containing two different antigen-binding sites in one molecule are called
bispecific. Bispecific Abs (BsAbs) were first described in the 1960s, the first monoclonal …

Trispecific broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies mediate potent SHIV protection in macaques

L Xu, A Pegu, E Rao, N Doria-Rose, J Beninga… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The development of an effective AIDS vaccine has been challenging because of viral
genetic diversity and the difficulty of generating broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs). We …

An engineered bispecific human monoclonal antibody against SARS-CoV-2

Z Li, S Li, G Zhang, W Peng, Z Chang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The global severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic
requires effective therapies against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and neutralizing …

Antibody fucosylation predicts disease severity in secondary dengue infection

S Bournazos, HTM Vo, V Duong, H Auerswald, S Ly… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Although antiviral antibodies generally confer protective functions, antibodies against
dengue virus (DENV) are associated with enhanced disease susceptibility. Antibodies can …

Highly active engineered IgG3 antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

S Kallolimath, L Sun, R Palt, K Stiasny… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that efficiently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 have been developed
at an unprecedented speed. Notwithstanding, there is a vague understanding of the various …

Functional diversification of IgGs through Fc glycosylation

TT Wang, JV Ravetch - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
IgG antibodies are secreted from B cells and bind to a variety of pathogens to control
infections as well as contribute to inflammatory diseases. Many of the functions of IgGs are …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies for HIV-1 prevention

SR Walsh, MS Seaman - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Given the absence of an effective vaccine for protection against HIV-1 infection, passive
immunization strategies that utilize potent broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) to block …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering therapeutic bispecific antibodies using CrossMab technology

C Klein, W Schaefer, JT Regula, C Dumontet… - Methods, 2019 - Elsevier
Bispecific antibodies have recently gained major interest as they allow novel mechanisms-of-
action and/or therapeutic applications that cannot be achieved using conventional IgG …

Bispecific antibodies increase the therapeutic window of CD40 agonists through selective dendritic cell targeting

R Salomon, H Rotem, Y Katzenelenbogen, A Weiner… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Therapeutic use of agonistic anti-CD40 antibodies is a potentially powerful approach for
activation of the immune response to eradicate tumors. However, the translation of this …