Structure-based design of a fusion glycoprotein vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus

JS McLellan, M Chen, MG Joyce, M Sastry… - science, 2013 - science.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization for children under 5
years of age. We sought to engineer a viral antigen that provides greater protection than …

Rational design of a highly immunogenic prefusion-stabilized F glycoprotein antigen for a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine

Y Che, AV Gribenko, X Song, LD Handke… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading, global cause of serious respiratory disease
in infants and is an important cause of respiratory illness in older adults. No RSV vaccine is …

[HTML][HTML] A highly stable prefusion RSV F vaccine derived from structural analysis of the fusion mechanism

A Krarup, D Truan, P Furmanova-Hollenstein… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes acute lower respiratory tract infections and is the
leading cause of infant hospitalizations. Recently, a promising vaccine antigen based on the …

A proof of concept for structure-based vaccine design targeting RSV in humans

MC Crank, TJ Ruckwardt, M Chen, KM Morabito… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Technologies that define the atomic-level structure of neutralization-sensitive epitopes on
viral surface proteins are transforming vaccinology and guiding new vaccine development …

[HTML][HTML] Immunological lessons from respiratory syncytial virus vaccine development

TJ Ruckwardt, KM Morabito, BS Graham - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has eluded active vaccination efforts for more than five
decades and continues to cause substantial morbidity and mortality in infants, the …

Structural basis for immunization with postfusion respiratory syncytial virus fusion F glycoprotein (RSV F) to elicit high neutralizing antibody titers

KA Swanson, EC Settembre… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the main cause of infant bronchiolitis, remains a major
unmet vaccine need despite more than 40 years of vaccine research. Vaccine candidates …

Iterative structure-based improvement of a fusion-glycoprotein vaccine against RSV

MG Joyce, B Zhang, L Ou, M Chen… - Nature structural & …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based design of vaccines, particularly the iterative optimization used so
successfully in the structure-based design of drugs, has been a long-sought goal. We …

Vaccine development for respiratory syncytial virus

BS Graham - Current opinion in Virology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•RSV is an important cause of lower respiratory tract infection and disease at the
extremes of age.•The RSV fusion (F) glycoprotein is the major target for virus neutralizing …

A novel pre-fusion conformation-specific neutralizing epitope on the respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein

JJ Mousa, N Kose, P Matta, P Gilchuk, JE Crowe - Nature microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains a major human pathogen, infecting the majority of
infants before age two and causing re-infection throughout life. Despite decades of RSV …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-fusion F is absent on the surface of formalin-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus

AM Killikelly, M Kanekiyo, BS Graham - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The lack of a licensed vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can be partly attributed to
regulatory hurdles resulting from vaccine enhanced respiratory disease (ERD) subsequent …