The road to approved vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus

TJ Ruckwardt - NPJ vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
After decades of work, several interventions to prevent severe respiratory syncytial virus
(RSV) disease in high-risk infant and older adult populations have finally been approved …

Engineering self-assembling protein nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery

A Olshefsky, C Richardson, SH Pun… - Bioconjugate …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite remarkable advances over the past several decades, many therapeutic
nanomaterials fail to overcome major in vivo delivery barriers. Controlling immunogenicity …

Germline-encoded amino acid–binding motifs drive immunodominant public antibody responses

EL Shrock, RT Timms, T Kula, EL Mena, AP West Jr… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Despite the vast diversity of the antibody repertoire, infected individuals often mount
antibody responses to precisely the same epitopes within antigens. The immunological …

Broad anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibody immunity induced by heterologous ChAdOx1/mRNA-1273 vaccination

CI Kaku, ER Champney, J Normark, M Garcia… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Heterologous prime-boost immunization strategies have the potential to augment COVID-19
vaccine efficacy. We longitudinally profiled severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

The RSVPreF3-AS01 vaccine elicits broad neutralization of contemporary and antigenically distant respiratory syncytial virus strains

L Sacconnay, J De Smedt, V Rocha-Perugini… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
The RSVPreF3-AS01 vaccine, containing the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prefusion F
protein and the AS01 adjuvant, was previously shown to boost neutralization responses …

[HTML][HTML] Convergent antibody responses to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in convalescent and vaccinated individuals

EC Chen, P Gilchuk, SJ Zost, N Suryadevara… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Unrelated individuals can produce genetically similar clones of antibodies, known as public
clonotypes, which have been seen in responses to different infectious diseases, as well as …

A prefusion-stabilized RSV F subunit vaccine elicits B cell responses with greater breadth and potency than a postfusion F vaccine

LA Chang, E Phung, MC Crank, KM Morabito… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
There is currently no licensed vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Here, we assess
the effect of RSV fusion protein (F) conformation on B cell responses in a post hoc …

The Patent and Literature Antibody Database (PLAbDab): an evolving reference set of functionally diverse, literature-annotated antibody sequences and structures

B Abanades, TH Olsen, MIJ Raybould… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Antibodies are key proteins of the adaptive immune system, and there exists a large body of
academic literature and patents dedicated to their study and concomitant conversion into …

Human antibodies for viral infections

JE Crowe Jr - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Antibodies have been used to prevent or treat viral infections since the nineteenth century,
but the full potential to use passive immunization for infectious diseases has yet to be …

[PDF][PDF] T-cell receptor repertoire sequencing in the era of cancer immunotherapy

ML Frank, K Lu, C Erdogan, Y Han, J Hu, T Wang… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
T cells are integral components of the adaptive immune system, and their responses are
mediated by unique T-cell receptors (TCR) that recognize specific antigens from a variety of …