[HTML][HTML] mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases: principles, delivery and clinical translation

N Chaudhary, D Weissman… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past several decades, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have progressed from a
scepticism-inducing idea to clinical reality. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed the …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development

E Fang, X Liu, M Li, Z Zhang, L Song, B Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has determined 399,600,607 cases and 5,757,562 …

Coronavirus membrane fusion mechanism offers a potential target for antiviral development

T Tang, M Bidon, JA Jaimes, GR Whittaker, S Daniel - Antiviral research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has focused attention on the
need to develop effective therapies against the causative agent, SARS-CoV-2, and also …

[HTML][HTML] An emerging focus on lipids in extracellular vesicles

T Skotland, K Sagini, K Sandvig, A Llorente - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles contain a lipid bilayer membrane that protects the encapsulated
material, such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and metabolites, from the extracellular …

Cholesterol 25‐Hydroxylase inhibits SARS‐CoV‐2 and other coronaviruses by depleting membrane cholesterol

S Wang, W Li, H Hui, SK Tiwari, Q Zhang… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 and has spread
across the globe. SARS‐CoV‐2 is a highly infectious virus with no vaccine or antiviral …

[HTML][HTML] Double-membrane vesicles as platforms for viral replication

G Wolff, CE Melia, EJ Snijder, M Bárcena - Trends in microbiology, 2020 - cell.com
Viruses, as obligate intracellular parasites, exploit cellular pathways and resources in a
variety of fascinating ways. A striking example of this is the remodelling of intracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons in self-defence: inhibition of virus entry by intrinsic immunity

S Majdoul, AA Compton - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Virus entry, consisting of attachment to and penetration into the host target cell, is the first
step of the virus life cycle and is a critical 'do or die'event that governs virus emergence in …

[HTML][HTML] The replacement of helper lipids with charged alternatives in lipid nanoparticles facilitates targeted mRNA delivery to the spleen and lungs

ST LoPresti, ML Arral, N Chaudhary… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
The broad clinical application of mRNA therapeutics has been hampered by a lack of
delivery vehicles that induce protein expression in extrahepatic organs and tissues …

[HTML][HTML] The multifaceted role of SNARE proteins in membrane fusion

J Han, K Pluhackova, RA Böckmann - Frontiers in physiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Membrane fusion is a key process in all living organisms that contributes to a variety of
biological processes including viral infection, cell fertilization, as well as intracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Free energies of membrane stalk formation from a lipidomics perspective

CS Poojari, KC Scherer, JS Hub - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Many biological membranes are asymmetric and exhibit complex lipid composition,
comprising hundreds of distinct chemical species. Identifying the biological function and …