[HTML][HTML] Viral targets for vaccines against COVID-19

L Dai, GF Gao - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Vaccines are urgently needed to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic and to help the return to pre-pandemic normalcy. A great many vaccine …

[HTML][HTML] Exploitation of glycosylation in enveloped virus pathobiology

Y Watanabe, TA Bowden, IA Wilson… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Glycosylation is a ubiquitous post-translational modification responsible for a multitude of
crucial biological roles. As obligate parasites, viruses exploit host-cell machinery to …

[HTML][HTML] Stabilizing the closed SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer

J Juraszek, L Rutten, S Blokland, P Bouchier… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The trimeric spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 is the primary focus of most vaccine design
and development efforts. Due to intrinsic instability typical of class I fusion proteins, S tends …

[HTML][HTML] T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers

PS Arunachalam, TP Charles, V Joag, VS Bollimpelli… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Recent efforts toward an HIV vaccine focus on inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies, but
eliciting both neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and cellular responses may be superior. Here …

[PDF][PDF] HIV-1 vaccines based on antibody identification, B cell ontogeny, and epitope structure

PD Kwong, JR Mascola - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
HIV-1 vaccine development has been stymied by an inability to induce broadly reactive
neutralizing antibodies to the envelope (Env) trimer, the sole viral antigen on the virion …

Antibody responses to viral infections: a structural perspective across three different enveloped viruses

CD Murin, IA Wilson, AB Ward - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antibodies serve as critical barriers to viral infection. Humoral immunity to a virus is achieved
through the dual role of antibodies in communicating the presence of invading pathogens in …

[PDF][PDF] Elicitation of robust tier 2 neutralizing antibody responses in nonhuman primates by HIV envelope trimer immunization using optimized approaches

M Pauthner, C Havenar-Daughton, D Sok, JP Nkolola… - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
The development of stabilized recombinant HIV envelope trimers that mimic the virion
surface molecule has increased enthusiasm for a neutralizing antibody (nAb)-based HIV …

Associating HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein structures with states on the virus observed by smFRET

M Lu, X Ma, LR Castillo-Menendez, J Gorman… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer mediates cell entry and is conformationally
dynamic,,,,,,–. Imaging by single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing and shaping the immunogenicity of native-like HIV-1 envelope trimers with a two-component protein nanoparticle

PJM Brouwer, A Antanasijevic, Z Berndsen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The development of native-like HIV-1 envelope (Env) trimer antigens has enabled the
induction of neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses against neutralization-resistant HIV-1 …

The HIV‐1 envelope glycoprotein structure: nailing down a moving target

AB Ward, IA Wilson - Immunological reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Structure determination of the HIV‐1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) presented a number of
challenges, but several high‐resolution structures have now become available. In 2013 …