Emerging concepts in the science of vaccine adjuvants

B Pulendran, P S. Arunachalam… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Adjuvants are vaccine components that enhance the magnitude, breadth and durability of
the immune response. Following its introduction in the 1920s, alum remained the only …

Immunosenescence: molecular mechanisms and diseases

Z Liu, Q Liang, Y Ren, C Guo, X Ge, L Wang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Infection susceptibility, poor vaccination efficacy, age-related disease onset, and neoplasms
are linked to innate and adaptive immune dysfunction that accompanies aging (known as …

Immunopathological signatures in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and pediatric COVID-19

K Sacco, R Castagnoli, S Vakkilainen, C Liu… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Pediatric Coronavirus Disease 2019 (pCOVID-19) is rarely severe; however, a
minority of children infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans

PS Arunachalam, MKD Scott, T Hagan, C Li, Y Feng… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The emergency use authorization of two mRNA vaccines in less than a year from the
emergence of SARS-CoV-2 represents a landmark in vaccinology,. Yet, how mRNA …

Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses

GA Roth, VCTM Picece, BS Ou, W Luo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccines are the key technology to combat existing and emerging infectious diseases.
However, increasing the potency, quality and durability of the vaccine response remains a …

BNT162b2 vaccination induces durable SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells with a stem cell memory phenotype

G Guerrera, M Picozza, S D'Orso, R Placido… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Vaccination against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
effective in preventing hospitalization from severe COVID-19. However, multiple reports of …

Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity to the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine

C Li, A Lee, L Grigoryan, PS Arunachalam… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the success of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, the immunological mechanisms that
underlie its efficacy are poorly understood. Here we analyzed the innate and adaptive …

Systemic IL-15, IFN-γ, and IP-10/CXCL10 signature associated with effective immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine recipients

C Bergamaschi, E Terpos, M Rosati, M Angel, J Bear… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Early responses to vaccination are important for shaping both humoral and cellular
protective immunity. Dissecting innate vaccine signatures may predict immunogenicity to …

B cell memory: building two walls of protection against pathogens

M Akkaya, K Kwak, SK Pierce - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Surviving a single infection often results in lifelong immunity to the infecting pathogen. Such
protection is mediated, in large part, by two main B cell memory 'walls'—namely, long-lived …

Factors that influence the immune response to vaccination

P Zimmermann, N Curtis - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is substantial variation between individuals in the immune response to vaccination. In
this review, we provide an overview of the plethora of studies that have investigated factors …