Chikungunya virus: epidemiology, replication, disease mechanisms, and prospective intervention strategies

LA Silva, TS Dermody - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2017 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a reemerging arbovirus, causes a crippling musculoskeletal
inflammatory disease in humans characterized by fever, polyarthralgia, myalgia, rash, and …

Chikungunya virus: an update on the biology and pathogenesis of this emerging pathogen

FJ Burt, W Chen, JJ Miner, DJ Lenschow… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Re-emergence of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-transmitted pathogen, is of serious public
health concern. In the past 15 years, after decades of infrequent, sporadic outbreaks, the …

A phase 1 trial of lipid-encapsulated mRNA encoding a monoclonal antibody with neutralizing activity against Chikungunya virus

A August, HZ Attarwala, S Himansu, S Kalidindi, S Lu… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection causes acute disease characterized by fever, rash and
arthralgia, which progresses to severe and chronic arthritis in up to 50% of patients …

Mxra8 is a receptor for multiple arthritogenic alphaviruses

R Zhang, AS Kim, JM Fox, S Nair, K Basore… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Arthritogenic alphaviruses comprise a group of enveloped RNA viruses that are transmitted
to humans by mosquitoes and cause debilitating acute and chronic musculoskeletal …

Passive immunotherapy of viral infections:'super-antibodies' enter the fray

LM Walker, DR Burton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Antibodies have been used for more than 100 years in the therapy of infectious diseases,
but a new generation of highly potent and/or broadly cross-reactive human monoclonal …

A lipid-encapsulated mRNA encoding a potently neutralizing human monoclonal antibody protects against chikungunya infection

N Kose, JM Fox, G Sapparapu, R Bombardi… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Infection with chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes an acute illness characterized by fever,
rash, and arthralgia. However, CHIKV infection can sometimes progress to chronic arthritis …

A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection

AS Kim, MS Diamond - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Alphaviruses are arthropod-transmitted RNA viruses that cause epidemics of human
infection and disease on a global scale. These viruses are classified as either arthritogenic …

Vaccine and therapeutic options to control chikungunya virus

AM Powers - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Beginning in 2004, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) went from an endemic pathogen limited to
Africa and Asia that caused periodic outbreaks to a global pathogen. Given that outbreaks …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-EM structure of chikungunya virus in complex with the Mxra8 receptor

K Basore, AS Kim, CA Nelson, R Zhang, BK Smith… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Mxra8 is a receptor for multiple arthritogenic alphaviruses that cause debilitating acute and
chronic musculoskeletal disease in humans. Herein, we present a 2.2 Å resolution X-ray …

LDLRAD3 is a receptor for Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

H Ma, AS Kim, NM Kafai, JT Earnest, AP Shah… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is a neurotropic alphavirus transmitted by
mosquitoes that causes encephalitis and death in humans. VEEV is a biodefence concern …