The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, RK Gupta… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The past several months have witnessed the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with novel
spike protein mutations that are influencing the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2

P V'kovski, A Kratzel, S Steiner, H Stalder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its unprecedented global societal and economic disruptive
impact has marked the third zoonotic introduction of a highly pathogenic coronavirus into the …

Evolution of enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2

LG Thorne, M Bouhaddou, AK Reuschl… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern suggests viral adaptation to enhance
human-to-human transmission,. Although much effort has focused on the characterization of …

COVID-19 vaccines: The status and perspectives in delivery points of view

JY Chung, MN Thone, YJ Kwon - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the high prevalence and long incubation periods often without symptoms, the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected millions of individuals …

SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G change enhances replication and transmission

B Zhou, TTN Thao, D Hoffmann, A Taddeo, N Ebert… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in humans, a D614G substitution in the spike
glycoprotein (S) has emerged; virus containing this substitution has become the …

Evolution of enhanced innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants

AK Reuschl, LG Thorne, MVX Whelan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) human adaptation resulted
in distinct lineages with enhanced transmissibility called variants of concern (VOCs) …

COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward

MD Shin, S Shukla, YH Chung, V Beiss… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has infected millions of people with no clear signs of abatement
owing to the high prevalence, long incubation period and lack of established treatments or …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetics reveals a variable infection gradient in the respiratory tract

YJ Hou, K Okuda, CE Edwards, DR Martinez… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The mode of acquisition and causes for the variable clinical spectrum of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) remain unknown. We utilized a reverse genetics system to generate a …

A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19

A Wickenhagen, E Sugrue, S Lytras, S Kuchi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Interferons (IFNs) are cytokines that are rapidly deployed in response to
invading pathogens. By initiating a signaling cascade that stimulates the expression of …

COVID‐19 epidemic: disease characteristics in children

J She, L Liu, W Liu - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In mid‐December 2019, a disease caused by infection with severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus‐2, which began in Wuhan, China, has spread throughout the country …