SARS-CoV-2 variants, vaccines, and host immunity

P Mistry, F Barmania, J Mellet, K Peta… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new beta coronavirus
that emerged at the end of 2019 in the Hubei province of China. SARS-CoV-2 causes …

Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

Respiratory mucosal delivery of next-generation COVID-19 vaccine provides robust protection against both ancestral and variant strains of SARS-CoV-2

S Afkhami, MR D'Agostino, A Zhang, HD Stacey… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) threaten the effectiveness of current
COVID-19 vaccines administered intramuscularly and designed to only target the spike …

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern partially escape humoral but not T cell responses in COVID-19 convalescent donors and vaccine recipients

D Geers, MC Shamier, S Bogers, G den Hartog… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants harboring mutations in the spike (S) protein has
raised concern about potential immune escape. Here, we studied humoral and cellular …

Distinct antibody and memory B cell responses in SARS-CoV-2 naïve and recovered individuals after mRNA vaccination

RR Goel, SA Apostolidis, MM Painter, D Mathew… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
mRNA vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 have been authorized for emergency use. Despite their
efficacy in clinical trials, data on mRNA vaccine–induced immune responses are mostly …

Prospects for durable immune control of SARS-CoV-2 and prevention of reinfection

D Cromer, JA Juno, D Khoury, A Reynaldi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunity to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is
central to long-term control of the current pandemic. Despite our rapidly advancing …

Impaired humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients and dialysis patients

H Rincon-Arevalo, M Choi, AL Stefanski, F Halleck… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Patients with kidney failure are at increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, making effective
vaccinations a critical need. It is not known how well mRNA vaccines induce B and plasma …

[HTML][HTML] Maturation and persistence of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 memory B cell response

A Sokal, P Chappert, G Barba-Spaeth, A Roeser… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Memory B cells play a fundamental role in host defenses against viruses, but to date, their
role has been relatively unsettled in the context of SARS-CoV-2. We report here a …

Adaptive immune responses and immunity to SARS-CoV-2

D Primorac, K Vrdoljak, P Brlek, E Pavelić… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical field has been forced to apply the
basic knowledge of immunology with the most up-to-date SARS-CoV-2 findings and …

Longitudinal analysis of humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 Spike in convalescent individuals up to 8 months post-symptom onset

SP Anand, J Prévost, M Nayrac… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
With the recent approval of highly effective coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines,
functional and lasting immunity to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …