Disentangling the relative importance of T cell responses in COVID-19: leading actors or supporting cast?

SJ Kent, DS Khoury, A Reynaldi, JA Juno… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The rapid development of multiple vaccines providing strong protection from severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been a major achievement …

SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19

A Grifoni, J Sidney, R Vita, B Peters, S Crotty… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past year, numerous studies in the peer reviewed and preprint literature have
reported on the virological, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the coronavirus …

The T-cell-directed vaccine BNT162b4 encoding conserved non-spike antigens protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection

CM Arieta, YJ Xie, DA Rothenberg, H Diao, D Harjanto… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
T cell responses play an important role in protection against beta-coronavirus infections,
including SARS-CoV-2, where they associate with decreased COVID-19 disease severity …

Cutting edge: nucleocapsid vaccine elicits spike-independent SARS-CoV-2 protective immunity

WE Matchett, V Joag, JM Stolley… - The Journal of …, 2021 - journals.aai.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the
COVID-19 pandemic. Neutralizing Abs target the receptor binding domain of the spike (S) …

Combining spike-and nucleocapsid-based vaccines improves distal control of SARS-CoV-2

T Dangi, J Class, N Palacio, JM Richner… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection causes respiratory insufficiency and neurological manifestations,
including loss of smell and psychiatric disorders, and can be fatal. Most vaccines are based …

Cell surface SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein modulates innate and adaptive immunity

AD López-Muñoz, I Kosik, J Holly, JW Yewdell - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (N) induces strong antibody (Ab) and T cell responses.
Although considered to be localized in the cytosol, we readily detect N on the surface of live …

Improved control of SARS-CoV-2 by treatment with a nucleocapsid-specific monoclonal antibody

T Dangi, S Sanchez, J Class, M Richner… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein is the
main antigen in all approved COVID-19 vaccines and is also the only target for monoclonal …

Enhanced inhibition of MHC-I expression by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants

M Moriyama, C Lucas, VS Monteiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
possess mutations that confer resistance to neutralizing antibodies within the Spike protein …

Prevalent and immunodominant CD8 T cell epitopes are conserved in SARS-CoV-2 variants

S Meyer, I Blaas, RC Bollineni, M Delic-Sarac, TT Tran… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) is driven by mutations that
mediate escape from neutralizing antibodies. There is also evidence that mutations can …

Broad protection and respiratory immunity of dual mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 variants

RL Hajnik, JA Plante, S Reddy Bonam, GH Rafael… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
While first-generation, spike (S)-based COVID-19 vaccines were effective against early
SARS-CoV-2 strains, the rapid evolution of novel Omicron subvariants have substantially …