Evolution of the SARS‐CoV‐2 omicron variants BA. 1 to BA. 5: implications for immune escape and transmission

LB Shrestha, C Foster, W Rawlinson… - Reviews in Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The first dominant SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron variant BA. 1 harbours 35 mutations in its Spike
protein from the original SARS‐CoV‐2 variant that emerged late 2019. Soon after its …

Monoclonal antibody therapies against SARS-CoV-2

D Focosi, S McConnell, A Casadevall… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 have been widely
used in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we review the properties of mAbs …

Considerable escape of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron to antibody neutralization

D Planas, N Saunders, P Maes, F Guivel-Benhassine… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant was first identified in November 2021 in
Botswana and South Africa,–. It has since spread to many countries and is expected to …

Omicron: what makes the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern so concerning?

C Jung, D Kmiec, L Koepke, F Zech, T Jacob… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Emerging strains of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the
causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, that show …

The hyper-transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant exhibits significant antigenic change, vaccine escape and a switch in cell entry mechanism

BJ Willett, J Grove, OA MacLean, C Wilkie, N Logan… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Vaccination-based exposure to spike protein derived from early SARS-CoV-2 sequences is
the key public health strategy against COVID-19. Successive waves of SARS-CoV-2 …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies overcome SARS-CoV-2 Omicron antigenic shift

E Cameroni, JE Bowen, LE Rosen, C Saliba… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant encodes 37 amino acid substitutions in
the spike protein, 15 of which are in the receptor-binding domain (RBD), thereby raising …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway

BJ Willett, J Grove, OA MacLean, C Wilkie… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccines based on the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 are a cornerstone of the public health
response to COVID-19. The emergence of hypermutated, increasingly transmissible variants …

Determinants of Spike infectivity, processing, and neutralization in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA. 1 and BA. 2

C Pastorio, F Zech, S Noettger, C Jung, T Jacob… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron rapidly outcompeted other variants and currently dominates the
COVID-19 pandemic. Its enhanced transmission and immune evasion are thought to be …

Omicron-specific mRNA vaccination alone and as a heterologous booster against SARS-CoV-2

Z Fang, L Peng, R Filler, K Suzuki, A McNamara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 recently swept the globe and showed high level of
immune evasion. Here, we generate an Omicron-specific lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA …

Sensitivity to vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and viral entry inhibitors and advances to counter the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

H Zhou, M Møhlenberg, JC Thakor… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) keeps evolving and
mutating into newer variants over time, which gain higher transmissibility, disease severity …