Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: recent progress and future perspectives

Y Fan, X Li, L Zhang, S Wan, L Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been
a few variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), one of …

Altered TMPRSS2 usage by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron impacts infectivity and fusogenicity

B Meng, A Abdullahi, IATM Ferreira, N Goonawardane… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1 variant emerged in 2021 and has multiple
mutations in its spike protein. Here we show that the spike protein of Omicron has a higher …

Drugging the efferocytosis process: concepts and opportunities

P Mehrotra, KS Ravichandran - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The daily removal of billions of apoptotic cells in the human body via the process of
efferocytosis is essential for homeostasis. To allow for this continuous efferocytosis, rapid …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant shows less efficient replication and fusion activity when compared with Delta variant in TMPRSS2-expressed cells

H Zhao, L Lu, Z Peng, LL Chen, X Meng… - Emerging microbes & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B. 1.1. 529), first found in early
November 2021, has sparked considerable global concern and it has> 50 mutations, many …

Immune response in COVID-19: what is next?

Q Li, Y Wang, Q Sun, J Knopf, M Herrmann… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a global pandemic for more
than 2 years and it still impacts our daily lifestyle and quality in unprecedented ways. A …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 spike deletion H69/V70 and its role in the Alpha variant B. 1.1. 7

B Meng, SA Kemp, G Papa, R Datir, IATM Ferreira… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
We report severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike ΔH69/V70
in multiple independent lineages, often occurring after acquisition of receptor binding motif …

[PDF][PDF] The SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, shows rapid replication in human primary nasal epithelial cultures and efficiently uses the endosomal route of entry

TP Peacock, JC Brown, J Zhou, N Thakur… - …, 2022 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
At the end of 2021 a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, emerged and quickly spread
across the world. It has been demonstrated that Omicron's high number of Spike mutations …

How the coronavirus infects cells—and why Delta is so dangerous

M Scudellari - 2021 - covid19.sld.cu
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The hyper-transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant exhibits significant antigenic change, vaccine escape and a switch in cell entry mechanism

BJ Willett, J Grove, OA MacLean, C Wilkie, N Logan… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Vaccination-based exposure to spike protein derived from early SARS-CoV-2 sequences is
the key public health strategy against COVID-19. Successive waves of SARS-CoV-2 …