Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies from peripheral blood B cells

J Huang, NA Doria-Rose, NS Longo, L Laub, CL Lin… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
Isolation of monoclonal antibodies is an important technique for understanding the
specificities and characteristics of antibodies that underlie the humoral immune response to …

Cross-neutralization of four paramyxoviruses by a human monoclonal antibody

D Corti, S Bianchi, F Vanzetta, A Minola, L Perez… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Broadly neutralizing antibodies reactive against most and even all variants of the same viral
species have been described for influenza and HIV-1 (ref.). However, whether a neutralizing …

Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization

IS Georgiev, NA Doria-Rose, T Zhou, Y Do Kwon… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Serum characterization and antibody isolation are transforming our understanding of the
humoral immune response to viral infection. Here, we show that epitope specificities of HIV …

A fully synthetic human Fab antibody library based on fixed VH/VL framework pairings with favorable biophysical properties

T Tiller, I Schuster, D Deppe, K Siegers, R Strohner… - MAbs, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This report describes the design, generation and testing of Ylanthia, a fully synthetic human
Fab antibody library with 1.3 E+ 11 clones. Ylanthia comprises 36 fixed immunoglobulin (Ig) …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus spike protein delivered by modified vaccinia virus Ankara efficiently induces virus-neutralizing antibodies

F Song, R Fux, LB Provacia, A Volz… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has recently emerged as a
causative agent of severe respiratory disease in humans. Here, we constructed recombinant …

Clinical development of monoclonal antibody-based drugs in HIV and HCV diseases

M Flego, A Ascione, M Cianfriglia, S Vella - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Today there are many licensed antiviral drugs, but the emergence of drug resistant strains
sometimes invalidates the effects of the current therapies used in the treatment of infectious …

Human antibody neutralizes severe Fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, an emerging hemorrhagic Fever virus

X Guo, L Zhang, W Zhang, Y Chi, X Zeng… - Clinical and vaccine …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), a newly discovered member
of the Bunyaviridae family, is the causative agent of an emerging hemorrhagic fever, SFTS …

Development of Norwalk virus-specific monoclonal antibodies with therapeutic potential for the treatment of Norwalk virus gastroenteritis

Z Chen, SV Sosnovtsev, K Bok, GI Parra… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Passive immunoprophylaxis or immunotherapy with norovirus-neutralizing monoclonal
antibodies (MAbs) could be a useful treatment for high-risk populations, including infants …

Max Bergmann lecture protein epitope mimetics in the age of structural vaccinology

JA Robinson - Journal of Peptide Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights the growing importance of protein epitope mimetics in the discovery of
new biologically active molecules and their potential applications in drug and vaccine …

Humoral immune response to HTLV-1 basic leucine zipper factor (HBZ) in HTLV-1-infected individuals

Y Enose-Akahata, A Abrams, R Massoud, I Bialuk… - Retrovirology, 2013 - Springer
Background Human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection can lead to
development of adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) or HTLV-1-associated …