Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Targetable elements in SARS-CoV-2 S2 subunit for the design of pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitors and vaccines

L Guo, S Lin, Z Chen, Y Cao, B He, G Lu - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has caused devastating impacts …

Antigenicity and infectivity characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 BA. 2.86

S Yang, Y Yu, F Jian, W Song, A Yisimayi… - The Lancet infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
The newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 saltation variant, BA. 2.86, has raised global concern
(appendix 1 p 7). By Sept 8, 2023, 95 sequences were detected, of which their early …

Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 S2-only antigen provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge

CL Hsieh, SR Leist, EH Miller, L Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) have diminished the
effectiveness of therapeutic antibodies and vaccines. Develo** a coronavirus vaccine that …

The SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody response to SD1 and its evasion by BA. 2.86

D Zhou, P Supasa, C Liu, A Dijokaite-Guraliuc… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Under pressure from neutralising antibodies induced by vaccination or infection the SARS-
CoV-2 spike gene has become a hotspot for evolutionary change, leading to the failure of all …

[HTML][HTML] Broadly neutralizing antibodies against COVID-19

D Zhou, J Ren, EE Fry, DI Stuart - Current opinion in virology, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has led to hundreds of millions of
infections and millions of deaths, however, human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) can be an …

[HTML][HTML] Protective effect and molecular mechanisms of human non-neutralizing cross-reactive spike antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination

JJ Clark, I Hoxie, DC Adelsberg, IA Sapse… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Neutralizing antibodies correlate with protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Recent studies, however, show that binding antibody titers, in …

Evidence of antigenic drift in the fusion machinery core of SARS-CoV-2 spike

TJC Tan, AK Verma, A Odle, R Lei… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Antigenic drift of SARS-CoV-2 is typically defined by mutations in the N-terminal domain and
receptor binding domain of spike protein. In contrast, whether antigenic drift occurs in the S2 …

Functional and antigenic characterization of SARS-CoV-2 spike fusion peptide by deep mutational scanning

R Lei, E Qing, A Odle, M Yuan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fusion peptide of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is functionally important for membrane
fusion during virus entry and is part of a broadly neutralizing epitope. However, sequence …