Convergent evolution in SARS-CoV-2 spike creates a variant soup from which new COVID-19 waves emerge

D Focosi, R Quiroga, S McConnell… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic were mainly characterized by recurrent
mutations of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein at residues K417, L452, E484, N501 and P681 …

Recent developments in the immunopathology of COVID‐19

H Zhang, Y Sun, Y Wang, D Yazici, D Azkur, I Ogulur… - Allergy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There has been an important change in the clinical characteristics and immune profile of
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) patients during the pandemic thanks to the …

Repeated Omicron exposures override ancestral SARS-CoV-2 immune imprinting

A Yisimayi, W Song, J Wang, F Jian, Y Yu, X Chen… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The continuing emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants highlights the need to update COVID-19
vaccine compositions. However, immune imprinting induced by vaccination based on the …

Low neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 2.75. 2, BQ. 1.1 and XBB. 1 by parental mRNA vaccine or a BA. 5 bivalent booster

C Kurhade, J Zou, H **a, M Liu, HC Chang, P Ren… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The newly emerged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Omicron sublineages, including the BA. 2-derived BA. 2.75. 2 and the BA. 5-derived BQ. 1.1 …

Imprinted SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity induces convergent Omicron RBD evolution

Y Cao, F Jian, J Wang, Y Yu, W Song, A Yisimayi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Continuous evolution of Omicron has led to a rapid and simultaneous emergence of
numerous variants that display growth advantages over BA. 5 (ref.). Despite their divergent …

Evolving antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 antigenic shift from XBB to JN. 1

F Jian, J Wang, A Yisimayi, W Song, Y Xu, X Chen… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The continuous evolution of SARS-CoV-2, particularly the emergence of BA. 2.86/JN. 1
lineage replacing XBB, necessitates re-evaluation of vaccine compositions 1–3. Here, we …

Deep-learning-enabled protein–protein interaction analysis for prediction of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and variant evolution

G Wang, X Liu, K Wang, Y Gao, G Li… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Host–pathogen interactions and pathogen evolution are underpinned by protein–protein
interactions between viral and host proteins. An understanding of how viral variants affect …

Convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 XBB lineages on receptor-binding domain 455–456 synergistically enhances antibody evasion and ACE2 binding

F Jian, L Feng, S Yang, Y Yu, L Wang, W Song… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) XBB lineages have
achieved dominance worldwide and keep on evolving. Convergent evolution of XBB …

The T-cell-directed vaccine BNT162b4 encoding conserved non-spike antigens protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection

CM Arieta, YJ **e, DA Rothenberg, H Diao, D Harjanto… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
T cell responses play an important role in protection against beta-coronavirus infections,
including SARS-CoV-2, where they associate with decreased COVID-19 disease severity …

Rational identification of potent and broad sarbecovirus-neutralizing antibody cocktails from SARS convalescents

Y Cao, F Jian, Z Zhang, A Yisimayi, X Hao, L Bao… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineages have
escaped most receptor-binding domain (RBD)-targeting therapeutic neutralizing antibodies …