Nanotechnology-based mRNA vaccines

S Chen, X Huang, Y Xue, E Álvarez-Benedicto… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract mRNA vaccines have emerged as a revolutionary tool to generate rapid and
precise immune responses against infectious diseases and cancers. Compared with …

Nanotechnology-based strategies against SARS-CoV-2 variants

X Huang, E Kon, X Han, X Zhang, N Kong… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has already infected more
than 500 million people globally (as of May 2022), creating the coronavirus disease 2019 …

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2—at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic

GY Oudit, K Wang, A Viveiros, MJ Kellner… - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
ACE2 is the indispensable entry receptor for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. Because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, it has become one of the most therapeutically targeted human …

Inhalation of ACE2-expressing lung exosomes provides prophylactic protection against SARS-CoV-2

Z Wang, S Hu, KD Popowski, S Liu, D Zhu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Continued emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern that are capable of esca**
vaccine-induced immunity highlights the urgency of develo** new COVID-19 therapeutics …

Folding@ home: Achievements from over 20 years of citizen science herald the exascale era

VA Voelz, VS Pande, GR Bowman - Biophysical journal, 2023‏ - cell.com
Simulations of biomolecules have enormous potential to inform our understanding of biology
but require extremely demanding calculations. For over 20 years, the Folding@ home …

An engineered ACE2 decoy neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and confers protection against infection in vivo

N Ikemura, S Taminishi, T Inaba, T Arimori… - Science translational …, 2022‏ - science.org
The Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) SARS-CoV-2 variant contains an unusually high number of
mutations in the spike protein, raising concerns of escape from vaccines, convalescent …

Engineering ACE2 decoy receptors to combat viral escapability

T Arimori, N Ikemura, T Okamoto, J Takagi… - Trends in …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Decoy receptor proteins that trick viruses to bind to them should be resistant to viral escape
because viruses that require entry receptors cannot help but bind decoy receptors …

An ACE2 decoy can be administered by inhalation and potently targets omicron variants of SARS‐CoV‐2

L Zhang, KK Narayanan, L Cooper… - EMBO molecular …, 2022‏ - embopress.org
Monoclonal antibodies targeting the SARS‐CoV‐2 spike (S) neutralize infection and are
efficacious for the treatment of COVID‐19. However, SARS‐CoV‐2 variants, notably …

Engineered ACE2-Fc counters murine lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection through direct neutralization and Fc-effector activities

Y Chen, L Sun, I Ullah, G Beaudoin-Bussières… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) constitutes an attractive antiviral capable
of targeting a wide range of coronaviruses using ACE2 as their receptor. Using structure …

Optimized ACE2 decoys neutralize antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants through functional receptor mimicry and treat infection in vivo

JA Torchia, AH Tavares, LS Carstensen, DY Chen… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolves to escape
natural antibodies, it also loses sensitivity to therapeutic antibody drugs. By contrast …