Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

The germinal centre B cell response to SARS-CoV-2

BJ Laidlaw, AH Ellebedy - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022‏ - nature.com
The germinal centre (GC) response is critical for the generation of affinity-matured plasma
cells and memory B cells capable of mediating long-term protective immunity …

A multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes

CP Arevalo, MJ Bolton, V Le Sage, N Ye, C Furey… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Seasonal influenza vaccines offer little protection against pandemic influenza virus strains. It
is difficult to create effective prepandemic vaccines because it is uncertain which influenza …

Immune imprinting and next-generation coronavirus vaccines

CQ Huang, S Vishwanath, GW Carnell, ACY Chan… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Vaccines based on historical virus isolates provide limited protection from continuously
evolving RNA viruses, such as influenza viruses or coronaviruses, which occasionally spill …

Antiviral neutralizing antibodies: from in vitro to in vivo activity

DR Burton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) are being increasingly used as passive antiviral reagents in
prophylactic and therapeutic modalities and to guide viral vaccine design. In vivo, nAbs can …

Human seasonal influenza under COVID-19 and the potential consequences of influenza lineage elimination

V Dhanasekaran, S Sullivan, KM Edwards… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Annual epidemics of seasonal influenza cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, high levels
of morbidity, and substantial economic loss. Yet, global influenza circulation has been …

Develo** therapeutic approaches for twenty-first-century emerging infectious viral diseases

RM Meganck, RS Baric - Nature medicine, 2021‏ - nature.com
The twenty-first century has already recorded more than ten major epidemic or pandemic
virus emergence events, including the ongoing and devastating coronavirus disease 2019 …

Influenza vaccine format mediates distinct cellular and antibody responses in human immune organoids

JM Kastenschmidt, S Sureshchandra, A Jain… - Immunity, 2023‏ - cell.com
Highly effective vaccines elicit specific, robust, and durable adaptive immune responses. To
advance informed vaccine design, it is critical that we understand the cellular dynamics …

ACE2-binding exposes the SARS-CoV-2 fusion peptide to broadly neutralizing coronavirus antibodies

JS Low, J Jerak, MA Tortorici, M McCallum, D Pinto… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The coronavirus spike glycoprotein attaches to host receptors and mediates viral fusion.
Using a broad screening approach, we isolated seven monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that …

Messenger RNA-based vaccines: Past, present, and future directions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

S Jain, A Venkataraman, ME Wechsler… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract mRNA vaccines have received major attention in the fight against COVID-19.
Formulations from companies such as Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer have allowed us to …