Opportunities and challenges for biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools for pandemics: COVID-19

N Bhalla, Y Pan, Z Yang, AF Payam - ACS nano, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools have shown huge growth in literature in the past
20 years, with a large number of reports on the topic of 'ultrasensitive','cost-effective', and …

Molecular mechanism of HIV-1 entry

B Chen - Trends in microbiology, 2019‏ - cell.com
HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein [Env; trimeric (gp160) 3 cleaved to (gp120/gp41) 3] attaches
the virion to a susceptible cell and induces fusion of viral and cell membranes to initiate …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular architecture of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

H Yao, Y Song, Y Chen, N Wu, J Xu, C Sun, J Zhang… - Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite recent
advances in the structural elucidation of SARS-CoV-2 proteins, the detailed architecture of …

Stabilized coronavirus spikes are resistant to conformational changes induced by receptor recognition or proteolysis

RN Kirchdoerfer, N Wang, J Pallesen, D Wrapp… - Scientific reports, 2018‏ - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in 2002 as a highly
transmissible pathogenic human betacoronavirus. The viral spike glycoprotein (S) utilizes …

nextPYP: a comprehensive and scalable platform for characterizing protein variability in situ using single-particle cryo-electron tomography

HF Liu, Y Zhou, Q Huang, J Piland, W **, J Mandel… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-electron tomography is an emerging technique capable of determining
the structure of proteins imaged within the native context of cells at molecular resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-electron microscopy for structural analysis of dynamic biological macromolecules

K Murata, M Wolf - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Background Since the introduction of what became today's standard for cryo-embedding of
biological macromolecules at native conditions more than 30 years ago, techniques and …

HIV-1 Env trimers asymmetrically engage CD4 receptors in membranes

W Li, Z Qin, E Nand, MW Grunst, JR Grover, JW Bess Jr… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) infection is initiated by binding of the viral
envelope glycoprotein (Env) to the cell-surface receptor CD4,,–. Although high-resolution …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV and their role in vaccine design

DR Burton, L Hangartner - Annual review of immunology, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
HIV employs multiple means to evade the humoral immune response, particularly the
elicitation of and recognition by broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs). Such antibodies …

Structure and immune recognition of trimeric pre-fusion HIV-1 Env

M Pancera, T Zhou, A Druz, IS Georgiev, C Soto… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope (Env) spike, comprising three
gp120 and three gp41 subunits, is a conformational machine that facilitates HIV-1 entry by …

A next-generation cleaved, soluble HIV-1 Env trimer, BG505 SOSIP. 664 gp140, expresses multiple epitopes for broadly neutralizing but not non-neutralizing …

RW Sanders, R Derking, A Cupo, JP Julien… - PLoS …, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
A desirable but as yet unachieved property of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-
1) vaccine candidate is the ability to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs). One …