Protein engineering strategies for rational immunogen design

TM Caradonna, AG Schmidt - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
Antibody immunodominance refers to the preferential and asymmetric elicitation of
antibodies against specific epitopes on a complex protein antigen. Traditional vaccination …

Prospects for developing an hepatitis C virus E1E2‐based nanoparticle vaccine

EA Toth, AK Andrianov… - Reviews in Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, more than 58 million people are chronically infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
with 1.5 million new infections occurring each year. An effective vaccine for HCV is therefore …

Analysis of antibodies from HCV elite neutralizers identifies genetic determinants of broad neutralization

T Weber, J Potthoff, S Bizu, M Labuhn, L Dold… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The high genetic diversity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) complicates effective vaccine
development. We screened a cohort of 435 HCV-infected individuals and found that 2%–5 …

Serum neutralization activity declines but memory B cells persist after cure of chronic hepatitis C

A Nishio, S Hasan, H Park, N Park, JH Salas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The increasing incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections underscores the need for an
effective vaccine. Successful vaccines to other viruses generally depend on a long-lasting …

Mechanism of a COVID-19 nanoparticle vaccine candidate that elicits a broadly neutralizing antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 variants

YN Zhang, J Paynter, C Sou, T Fourfouris, Y Wang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Vaccines that induce potent neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses against emerging
variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are essential for …

A human monoclonal antibody neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants containing the L452R mutation

SC Stein, G Hansen, G Ssebyatika, LJ Ströh… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
The effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic antibodies targeting the spike (S) receptor-
binding domain (RBD) has been hampered by the emergence of variants of concern …

VDJ gene usage in IgM repertoires of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques

M Chernyshev, M Kaduk, M Corcoran… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Macaques are frequently used to evaluate candidate vaccines and to study infection-
induced antibody responses, requiring an improved understanding of their naïve …

Structural insights into hepatitis C virus neutralization

LJ Ströh, T Krey - Current Opinion in Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspite of the available antiviral therapy, hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a global health
burden and a prophylactic vaccine would help to eliminate the risk to develop chronic liver …

Convergent antibody responses are associated with broad neutralization of hepatitis C virus

NE Skinner, CO Ogega, N Frumento, KE Clark… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Early development of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) targeting the
hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope glycoprotein E2 is associated with spontaneous clearance …

From structural studies to HCV vaccine design

I Yechezkel, M Law, N Tzarum - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a serious and growing public health problem despite recent
developments of antiviral therapeutics. To achieve global elimination of HCV, an effective …