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 …

Targeting p53 pathways: mechanisms, structures, and advances in therapy

H Wang, M Guo, H Wei, Y Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
The TP53 tumor suppressor is the most frequently altered gene in human cancers, and has
been a major focus of oncology research. The p53 protein is a transcription factor that can …

Camel nanobody-based B7-H3 CAR-T cells show high efficacy against large solid tumours

D Li, R Wang, T Liang, H Ren, C Park, CH Tai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rational design of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells based on the recognition of
antigenic epitopes capable of evoking the most potent CAR activation is an important …

Cleavage-intermediate Lassa virus trimer elicits neutralizing responses, identifies neutralizing nanobodies, and reveals an apex-situated site-of-vulnerability

J Gorman, CSF Cheung, Z Duan, L Ou, M Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lassa virus (LASV) infection is expanding outside its traditionally endemic areas in West
Africa, posing a pandemic biothreat. LASV-neutralizing antibodies, moreover, have proven …

The potential of nanobodies for COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics

DB Naidoo, AA Chuturgoon - Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2023 - Springer
The infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the
causative agent for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Globally, there have been …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of nurse shark VNAR single-domain antibodies targeting the spike S2 subunit of SARS-CoV-2

J Buffington, Z Duan, HJ Kwon, J Hong… - … : official publication of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Antibody-based
therapeutics targeting the spike protein, specifically the S1 subunit or the receptor binding …

Applications of nanobodies in the prevention, detection, and treatment of the evolving SARS-CoV-2

W Wang, Y Hu, B Li, H Wang, J Shen - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Global health and economy are deeply influenced by the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its newly emerging variants. Nanobodies with nanometer …

Enhanced virulence and waning vaccine-elicited antibodies account for breakthrough infections caused by SARS-CoV-2 delta and beyond

HJ Kwon, M Kosikova, W Tang, U Ortega-Rodriguez… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Here we interrogate the factors responsible for SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in a
K18-hACE2 transgenic mouse model. We show that Delta and the closely related Kappa …

Engineered Nanobodies Elicit Durable and Robust Bi‐Therapeutic Efficacy Toward Virus and Tumors

B Jia, X Gu, S Shen, Y Liu, M Li, Z Wei… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nanobodies (Nbs) are one of the most promising therapeutics for overcoming immune
escape in various diseases, including SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and cancers. However, the …

The pcomb3 phagemid family of phage display vectors

C Rader - Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2023 - cshprotocols.cshlp.org
A phagemid is a plasmid that contains the origin of replication and packaging signal of a
filamentous phage. Following bacterial transformation, a phagemid can be replicated and …