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 …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses

Y Chen, X Zhao, H Zhou, H Zhu, S Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a recently emerged
pathogenic human coronavirus that belongs to the sarbecovirus lineage of the genus …

Omicron variant (B. 1.1. 529): infectivity, vaccine breakthrough, and antibody resistance

J Chen, R Wang, NB Gilby, GW Wei - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The latest severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant Omicron
(B. 1.1. 529) has ushered panic responses around the world due to its contagious and …

Efficacy and safety of the RBD-dimer–based COVID-19 vaccine ZF2001 in adults

L Dai, L Gao, L Tao, SR Hadinegoro… - New England journal …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The ZF2001 vaccine, which contains a dimeric form of the receptor-binding
domain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and aluminum hydroxide as an …

COVID-19 vaccination: The road ahead

DM Altmann, RJ Boyton - Science, 2022 - science.org
A diverse array of successful, first-generation SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have played a huge
role in efforts to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, even though inequitable …

COVID-19 vaccine development: milestones, lessons and prospects

M Li, H Wang, L Tian, Z Pang, Q Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
With the constantly mutating of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of Variants of Concern
(VOC), the implementation of vaccination is critically important. Existing SARS-CoV-2 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape

WT Harvey, AM Carabelli, B Jackson… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although most mutations in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) genome are expected to be either deleterious and swiftly purged or relatively …

SARS-CoV-2 variant prediction and antiviral drug design are enabled by RBD in vitro evolution

J Zahradník, S Marciano, M Shemesh, E Zoler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest and concern will continue to emerge for the duration of the
COVID-19 pandemic. To map mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike …

The humoral response and antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 infection

H Qi, B Liu, X Wang, L Zhang - Nature Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we have gained many insights into the
human antibody response to the causative SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this Review, we …