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 …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development

H Yang, Z Rao - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), is an unprecedented global health crisis. However, therapeutic options for …

Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models

BL Hie, VR Shanker, D Xu, TUJ Bruun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural evolution must explore a vast landscape of possible sequences for desirable yet
rare mutations, suggesting that learning from natural evolutionary strategies could guide …

Omicron escapes the majority of existing SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies

Y Cao, J Wang, F Jian, T **ao, W Song, A Yisimayi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 B. 1.1. 529 (Omicron) variant contains 15 mutations of the
receptor-binding domain (RBD). How Omicron evades RBD-targeted neutralizing antibodies …

Safety, tolerability and viral kinetics during SARS-CoV-2 human challenge in young adults

B Killingley, AJ Mann, M Kalinova, A Boyers… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Since its emergence in 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) has caused hundreds of millions of cases and continues to circulate globally. To establish …

Mosaic RBD nanoparticles protect against challenge by diverse sarbecoviruses in animal models

AA Cohen, N van Doremalen, AJ Greaney, H Andersen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
To combat future severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants
and spillovers of SARS-like betacoronaviruses (sarbecoviruses) threatening global health …

Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection

DS Khoury, D Cromer, A Reynaldi, TE Schlub… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Predictive models of immune protection from COVID-19 are urgently needed to identify
correlates of protection to assist in the future deployment of vaccines. To address this, we …

Immunological mechanisms of vaccine-induced protection against COVID-19 in humans

M Sadarangani, A Marchant… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Most COVID-19 vaccines are designed to elicit immune responses, ideally neutralizing
antibodies (NAbs), against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Several vaccines, including …

Naturally enhanced neutralizing breadth against SARS-CoV-2 one year after infection

Z Wang, F Muecksch, D Schaefer-Babajew, S Finkin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
More than one year after its inception, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains difficult …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies target the coronavirus fusion peptide

C Dacon, C Tucker, L Peng, CCD Lee, TH Lin, M Yuan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The potential for future coronavirus outbreaks highlights the need to broadly target this
group of pathogens. We used an epitope-agnostic approach to identify six monoclonal …